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[Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas <address@hidden>]

M Singh wrote:

[...]

> True. But what I am speaking about is reality, not some utopia where things 
> ought to be different (and I agree with you on the conception of that 
> utopia).
>
>  
Do you mean like talking about the "reality" of Privative software 15 
years ago and talking about the "utopia" of Free Software. That talk 
bring us here.


[...]

>  
>
> > Because otherwise, to state it frankly, to expect that by
> > some magic, some people who don't need it would nevertheless
> > start working on a good TeXmacs -> LaTeX translator is a
> > little bit like, I would say, expecting to find an hypothetical fish
> > who would understand how to fly, or an hypothetical bird who
> > would understand how to swim : such animals exist, but you
> > don't see them very often 8-)
> >    
>
> But such are the usual thoughts of a person who just wants to communicate the 
> results of his research, and not make the choice of editors and their myriad 
> interactions the subject of his research instead. Such creatues not only 
> exist, but thrive in the academic world in great numbers and overwhelming 
> proportions. 
>
>  
I understand the point of placing your self in the place of the final 
user of texmacs (for example academical teachers and journal 
publishers), but even if you have to think like them, you dont have to 
think _by_ them. When I was an student I can present most of my 
academical work to teachers in texmacs, now I sugest to my students and 
some of them are fine with it, and we are sugesting students and 
teachers to switch their mind about academical writing using texmacs, 
and now they're more people using it and interested in this tool in 
various universities, even we're making some courses about texmacs use. 
People are diferent, so may be in your experience its not valuable to 
_suggest_ your advisor anything, in my experience that sugestion had 
work, but of course acepting a sugestion is up to the listener.

Cheers,

Offray


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