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[Amir Michail <address@hidden>]

> On Nov 30, 2020, at 6:20 PM, Massimiliano Gubinelli <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Personally,
> 
>  I do not think TeXmacs need a lot of users. It needs *good users*, *smart 
> users*, *users which want to spend some time contributing to the project in 
> some way*, *users that are willing to help improving the program*. 
> 
> Typical LaTeX users, especially those which are not able to understand 
> manuals, and just copy things out of stackexchange, can remain there were 
> they are. :) They certainly didn't made LaTeX what is now and will not in 
> any way make a better environment for TeXmacs.
> 
> Give us the Lamports, the Hoenigs, the Rahtz, the Spivaks, the Tantaus, 
> please. :)
> 
> Max
> 

So you don’t want high school and university students using TeXmacs to write 
up their math assignments?

Amir

> 
>> On 30. Nov 2020, at 21:15, Amir Michail <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> The idea is to have the user run a TeXmacs scan on some of their LaTeX 
>> documents.
>> 
>> From this scan, TeXmacs would generate a subset of its manual that 
>> explains how to write those LaTeX documents in TeXmacs.
>> 
>> In this way, if the user is using LaTeX in a basic way, then the TeXmacs 
>> manual would be short and relevant to that basic usage.
>> 
>> This might encourage more people to switch to TeXmacs because learning it 
>> would not take much time for their usage.
>> 
>> Amir
>> 
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