mailing-list for TeXmacs Users

[Diego Restrepo <address@hidden>]

On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 07:04, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:

> Also, I think that TeXmacs more needs publicity than LyX. For instance,
> contrary to LyX, TeXmacs is not yet shipped with any major GNU/Linux
> distribution (except for Debian, soon). I do not understand at all the
> policy of the big commercial distributions like Redhat, Mandrake, Suse, etc.
> I wrote to all of them, proposed them to support the software for them and
> made them aware of the popularity of TeXmacs (for instance, you may take a
> look on freshmeat: TeXmacs is before LyX. Understand me well: I do not want
> to say anything bad about Lyx, which is a very nice program, but I think
> that our ambitions go beyond theirs). In general, they do not even reply
> to email messages! I think that this is crazy: a very busy person like RMS
> (Richard Stallman) replies *immediately*. The big distributions could pay
> people to reply, but they seem not to care at all.

I don't know if already you tried, but may be that by sending the
announcement of a big release to linuxtoday.com or slashdot or
barrapunto drectly directly by you this should be accepted. Many people
know new software through this sites.