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[Amir Michail <address@hidden>]

> On Jun 1, 2019, at 3:31 PM, Giovanni Piredda <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> Am 01.06.2019 um 20:58 schrieb Amir Michail:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> It seems there is a lot of social pressure in academia for using LaTeX and 
>> avoiding WYSIWYG. I suspect that PhD students are particularly susceptible 
>> to this social pressure and would probably appreciate an emergency latex 
>> editing mode that can be activated in less than a second and is at least 
>> partially functional. It might come in handy during those unexpected 
>> advisor visits.
>> 
>> Amir
> 
> Hi Amir,
> I disagree that this is a good solution. A better approach is IMO to 
> consider whether you can use TeXmacs for your work as a PhD student or not; 
> if for example TeXmacs is incompatible with collaboration with other people 
> in your workgroup or if your advisor wants you to write in LaTeX (which 
> maybe happens rarely, but I do not know), then it is better to use LaTeX. 
> Otherwise if your advisor wants to know what program are you writing with, 
> you can explain that it is a program built according to the idea that 
> structured writing and WYSIWYG can be realized at the same time.

People in academia care more about appearances than being correct about the 
superiority of a tool. They don’t want to jeopardize important academic 
connections. 

Marketing TeXmacs as “forbidden fruit” and providing an emergency LaTeX 
editing mode might get it more attention among academics. 

Amir
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> Giovanni
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