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From: jdc@naucse.UUCP (John Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Help me defend LaTeX
Keywords: TeX, LaTeX, technical writing
Message-ID: <1762@naucse.UUCP>
Date: 24 Oct 89 02:26:34 GMT
Organization: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
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One of the professors I admire here teaches a technical writing course
(through the English department).  I took it upon myself to try to show
him LaTeX--since he bemoaned the fact that his students couldn't typeset
documents.

He was incredibly negative about all the hieroglyphics required to make
LaTeX function.  He worked last year (on sabattical) with a *very* 
expensive typesetting package on a dedicated micro-vax.  (I'm sorry, but
I forgot the actual name of the other package--it was probably one of the
best on the market.)

Anyway, I wasn't sure I convinced him that it was worth even a single
class session to introduce students to this technical writing tool.  He
was pretty adamant that such a program was a "dinosaur" and would no
longer be part of any technical writing shop by the time his students
graduated.

Anyone have any comments?
-- 
	John Campbell               ...!arizona!naucse!jdc
                                    CAMPBELL@NAUVAX.bitnet
	unix?  Sure send me a dozen, all different colors.