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Re: Why not have "adaptive" TeXmacs manual for LaTeX users?


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  • From: Amir Michail <address@hidden>
  • To: Massimiliano Gubinelli <address@hidden>
  • Cc: texmacs-users <address@hidden>
  • Subject: Re: Why not have "adaptive" TeXmacs manual for LaTeX users?
  • Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 18:27:36 -0500


> 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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