Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!sot-ecs!spqr From: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Idea for Discussion: Remove LaTeX from TeX Group? Message-ID: Date: 7 Feb 91 10:37:09 GMT References: <58132@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Sender: news@ecs.soton.ac.uk Organization: Southampton University Computer Science Lines: 22 In-reply-to: xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu's message of 6 Feb 91 15:12:02 GMT In article <58132@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu (Xiaofei Wang) writes: As far as code writing is concerned, Plain TeX users and LaTeX users don't usually talk to each other. Few people use both Plain TeX and LaTeX. oh, come on! LaTeX is an extension (more or less) of Plain TeX. I don't use the `tex' command per se more than once a month, but I do read the stuff people post when they are discussing macro-writing problems. we are *not* in two different camps time to ask it to do things it is not designed to do. In that case, I would think one should write one's own macro based on *original* TeX. people keep on about plain TeX as if it were the word of God. It isn't. Knuth wrote a document compiler, and offered a sample set of macros to show how to do it, and for his own purposes. Lamport used Knuth's code and extended it. Being `original' ie `first' doesnt mean `best' sebastian -- Sebastian Rahtz S.Rahtz@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET) Computer Science S.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bitnet) Southampton S09 5NH, UK S.Rahtz@sot-ecs.uucp (uucp)