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From: beck@bongo.cs.cornell.edu (Micah Beck)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Idea for Discussion: Remove LaTeX from TeX Group?
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Date: 9 Feb 91 18:40:07 GMT
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steve@Advansoft.COM (Steve Savitzky) writes:

>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.

Is this true?  Seems to me that there is stuff which works on Plain TeX
but not on LaTeX.

Alternate idea: introduce comp.text.tex.la and perhaps comp.text.tex.plain,
dealing with issues specific to those macro packages. 

Micah Beck
Cornell CS Dept.