Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!jarthur!bridge2!olivea!mintaka!daemon From: dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu (David M. Jones) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: I want indentation after a \section command Message-ID: <1990Oct5.212512.3132@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Date: 5 Oct 90 21:25:12 GMT References: <0093D99C.7E11FCA0@QMD.PHY.NIST.GOV> <1990Oct5.005941.7173@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <11639@ganymede.inmos.co.uk> Sender: daemon@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu (Lucifer Maleficius) Reply-To: dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu (David M. Jones) Organization: Laboratory for Computer Science, MIT Lines: 43 In-Reply-To: des@frogland.inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd) In article <11639@ganymede.inmos.co.uk>, des@frogland (David Shepherd) writes: > >at the same time remember that it isn't their/our job to answer questions >about LaTeX in this group. If you expect carefully checked and tested >solutions to your problems then your site should be employing someone >to support LaTeX (either internally or via someone who sells TeX + >support). You should be quite pleased that someone, out of the goodness >of their heart, points you in the right direction if you post a >problem here as you've no right to expect anything. I certainly agree with most of this. However, I don't think anyone should be expected to be too grateful for a wrong answer, especially when the answer is trivially wrong, but quite misleading. I'm no LaTeX wizard, but I do know enough to be helpful once in a while. I don't feel that this obligates me to answer any given question that I read on the net. However, when I do choose to answer a question, I do feel some obligation to make sure that my answer is correct and as helpful as possible. If it isn't, then I'm wasting my time and the time of the person I'm responding to, and am also running the risk of increasing his/her frustration. I'm not comfortable with the "shooting from the hip" style of reply, because it leads to precisely the sort of slightly incorrect answers that I quoted earlier. By the way, let me repeat that I meant no personal offense to either Rahtz or van Oostrum. I've generally found their articles to be quite helpful and authoritative. In fact, I'd like to take this chance to thank Piet for the diffs he sent me a few weeks back to make letter.sty work with Mittelbach and Sch\"opf's font selection scheme. I installed them and they've worked beautifully. (Time constraints prevented me from acknowledging his reply then.) It is perhaps true that my rantings should be taken with a megadose of salt. Having recently completed a Local Guide to LaTeX for our system, I'm rather sensitive right now to the issues of documentation and the proper way to respond to questions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ David M. Jones |"I've just come across a fascinating 17 Simpson Ave #1; Somerville, MA 02144 | piece in the Times. Concerns the ARPANET: dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu | effects of lack of sleep among UUCP: ...!mit-eddie!mit-athena!dmjones | the marginally sane." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------