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From: eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Idea for Discussion: Remove LaTeX from TeX Group?
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Date: 9 Feb 91 21:36:47 GMT
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beck@bongo.cs.cornell.edu (Micah Beck) writes:

>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:

Agree.

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

See above argument.

I've heard this suggestion before, and it is usually the complaint
of plain TeX users who don't want to hear about LaTeX. On the other hand,
most LaTeX users have to know (sometimes quite a lot) about `pure' TeX,
what is usually qualified as `plain' TeX, but incorrectly.

The only viable proposal for separation would be to move
supersets of pure TeX (or plain for that matter, LaTeX and
just about every package I know is a superset of plain)
to a subgroup.

But then, I'm tired of all these people asking:
- where do I get TeX for the XYZ computer
- how do I use Postscript
- who has a modedef for the ABC (read: ln03) printer

Shouldn't we have separate groups for all of that?

Let's just stick together, the amount of messages is not
that large, and we can all learn from each other.

V.