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[Alfe <address@hidden>]

Hi everybody,

I do not really care what the program is named.

I find the current name logical, based upon the knowledge where the origins 
lie and where the ideas in the beginning of the development came from.  So 
it's kind of a story-telling name.  Since I also used the Emacs a lot and 
have some experience with LaTeX, both name parts never revoked me.

On the other hand I understand that neither "Emacs" nor "(La)TeX" produce 
associations of a simple handling or an easy understanding, which TeXmacs 
strives to offer.  So the current name is rather correct from a historical 
point of view and does neither describe what the program strives to be like 
nor what it really is.  And, even worse, it does not attract the users in 
masses.

A new name could solve these issues at the cost every name change brings 
along:  Some people now already heard the name "TeXmacs" and have it vaguely 
in the backs of their heads, maybe they even select it from the packages upon 
installing a new Linux distribution, but this gain is lost when tomorrow we 
are named "StructureType" or "PariScien" or whatever.  A new brand would have 
to be established.

I already went through this with Sodipodi which spawned Inkscape, and you 
know what?  It didn't hurt at all.

Alfe