Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!arc!arc!steve From: steve@Advansoft.COM (Steve Savitzky) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Idea for Discussion: Remove LaTeX from TeX Group? Message-ID: Date: 9 Feb 91 01:54:18 GMT References: <58132@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Sender: @advansoft.com Organization: Advansoft Research Corp, Santa Clara, CA Lines: 17 In-Reply-To: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk's message of 7 Feb 91 10:37:09 GMT Terrible idea. Most of the topics in comp.text.tex are not specific to either LaTeX or Plain--they include such things as: o Metafont o Device drivers o the latest version of TeX for the XXX machine, or problems compiling TeX on XXX, or the like o general questions about macros, input, output, running TeX, etc. which usually apply to both versions. LaTeX is, after all, an extension of Plain TeX. I mostly use LaTeX, because it gives me a lot of useful stuff I would otherwise have to write myself, but that doesn't keep me from writing my own macro packages to extend it, or using plain TeX when I have to. -- \ --Steve Savitzky-- \ ADVANsoft Research Corp \ REAL hackers use an AXE! \ \ steve@advansoft.COM \ 4301 Great America Pkwy \ #include \ \ arc!steve@apple.COM \ Santa Clara, CA 95954 \ 408-727-3357 \ \__ steve@arc.UUCP _________________________________________________________