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From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Help me defend LaTeX
Keywords: TeX, LaTeX, technical writing
Message-ID: <1738@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 25 Oct 89 10:40:57 GMT
References: <1762@naucse.UUCP> <71781@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <2602@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
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In-reply-to: dhosek@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (D.A. Hosek)

In article <2602@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>, dhosek@jarthur (D.A. Hosek) writes:

			  Besides, I think that pushing spelling correctors can
 `be just as dangerous as pushing formatting languages (if not more so), since
 `there is a tendency for people with spelling checkers to never read their 
 `work (believe me, I've seen it on many an occasion). I find it very
 `annoying to read text that says things like "they never read there work".

 `going to go away: SGML is an international standard, far more techincal 
								^^^^^^^^^
this would have been caught by a spelling checker

 `journals except TeX/LaTeX/AmSTeX files than MS-Word files, the stuff is 
           ^^^^^^
this one only by reading your work. (I suppose you mean accept)

Or was this just an illustration of your point :=)
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