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From: kurzi@netmbx.UUCP (Dieterich)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Idea for Discussion: Remove LaTeX from TeX Group?
Message-ID: <1860@netmbx.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 91 20:46:11 GMT
References: <58132@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
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In article <58132@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu (Xiaofei Wang) writes:
>Would that be a good idea to remove LaTeX related discussions from
>``comp.text.TeX'' to ``comp.text.LaTeX''?
>
>Few people use both Plain TeX and
>LaTeX.  I am a Plain TeX user and not interested in how to do this and
>that in LaTeX. And I presume that a LaTeX user is not interested in how
>to do this and that in Plain TeX. Separation of LaTeX will do good for
>Plain TeX people as well as LaTeX people.
>
This is a good idea for two reasons:
1. (mentioned above).
2. most users frustrated by otheways of writing (pencil, typewriter, word,...)
   start with LaTeX. For them it isn't very helpful to become familiar with
   hints on formatting formula-type x (...) with Tex. While reading this 
   newsgroup I think LaTeX questions (and hints) are more general ones.
   Tex articles seem to deal with very specialized features of Tex. So
   the readers of this newsgroup seem to be a very heterogenous group.