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


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  • From: Frank <address@hidden>
  • To: address@hidden
  • Subject: Re: Why not have "adaptive" TeXmacs manual for LaTeX users?
  • Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 18:09:56 +0100
Hi Joris and all,

I agree with Joris that scanning LaTeX documents does not seem to be a good
strategy (it also needs some degree of artificial intelligence). On the other
hand, it would be way too intrusive.

On the other hand, I would like to avoid terms like "smart users" which might
hint that other users are intelligently disabled, and in this context, it would suggest
that some users be too stupid to use or to contribute to TeXmacs, which seems extremely
unfriendly and arrogant.

Best wishes,
Frank

On 12/1/20, TeXmacs wrote:
On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 12:20:51AM +0100, Massimiliano Gubinelli wrote:
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*.

I do not agree. We need users of both types.
And the more users we have, the more smart users will join.

But I am not convinced by Amir's strategy to achieve that goal.
Sticking too close to LaTeX maintains the widespread confusion that
we are just a LaTeX front-end. I think that it is interesting to
highlight features where TeXmacs is substantially different and better,
and to make this part of the learning process as early as possible.

Best wishes, --Joris


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