Xref: utzoo comp.text.tex:7089 alt.folklore.computers:11385 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!myers From: myers@ut-emx.uucp (Eric Myers) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: A portrait of the TeX novice/user/hacker/... Message-ID: <48126@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 30 Apr 91 00:13:31 GMT References: <1991Apr28.235931.15846@csrd.uiuc.edu> <1991Apr29.104125.13569@athena.mit.edu> Followup-To: comp.text.tex Organization: Center for Relativity, University of Texas Lines: 15 In article <1991Apr29.104125.13569@athena.mit.edu> >At some level beyond rank amateur, but below user: > > One who writes macros (or attempts to) to make > TeX look more like (choose one: Scribe, -ms, > -me, -mm, Digital Standard Runoff...) That level should be called a "lamport," since LaTeX is just an attempt to bend TeX back into scribe. -- Eric Myers "If God had intended for man to fly He would have given us the brains to build airplanes." Center for Relativity, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin myers@emx.utexas.edu | myers@utaphy.bitnet | myers@ut-emx.UUCP