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[Christopher Dimech <address@concealed>]

Sent: Friday, June 13, 2025 at 6:11 AM
From: "pireddag" <address@concealed>
To: address@concealed
Subject: Re: [texmacs-users] The Jolly Writer

>> One builds a free software tool, but then write a manual
 
> I might agree with the article here ("a" manual) and perhaps disagree
> with the name (a "book" might be argued it is).

> > But when its manual
 
> I do disagree with the possessive adjective here. "The Jolly Writer" is 
> not "its manual". That one you find in the website, next to where you 
> download the software from, *and* you get within the software download. 
> Since when I know it, it has been always provided under the GNU license. 
> At least I think so, maybe someone wants to find out and point out the 
> license (may be inside the manual)

Oh, it's not a manual, it's a book! - as if that magically changes the 
rules about sharing and freedom.

Whether you call it a manual, a guide, or a book, the purpose is the same
and it is stated clearly in the welcome page.

The book covers the main features of the latest version of TeXmacs. 
And its primary aim is to be a guide.  

It's a practical, hands-on to the jungle of style tags, shortcuts, 
mathematical symbols, and morphing animations.  That's not some 
abstract "book" for show - it’s a user’s manual in every sense but 
name.

So don’t try to pull the wool over anyone’s eyes by pretending the 
label "book" changes the game.  

The more people argue with me, the clearer it becomes to the truly smart 
ones that the noise is just hot air - full of nonsense and bluster. It's 
like watching a crowd shouting over each other in a pub, none of them 
listening, all convinced they’re right.  Meanwhile, the ones with a bit 
of sense stand back, shaking their heads, knowing the substance is missing.