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From: kwolcott@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: A portrait of the TeX novice/user/hacker/...
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.184205.100@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu>
Date: 29 Apr 91 18:35:05 GMT
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In article <1991Apr28.235931.15846@csrd.uiuc.edu>, eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout) writes:
> After the well-known classification of the Unix user/wizard/...
> maybe it is time to start compiling the profile of the
> users of TeX. Kindly consider this an opportunity to
> caricature all those levels you left behind you:
> 
> novice: still writes $a_{1}$ because Leslie Lamport says so;
> user: thinks to have found a bug in TeX
> 
> or to which you aspire:
> 
> hacker: writes self-modifying macros
> wizard: knows how to recompile TeX with a larger pool size
> guru: has actually found a bug in TeX
> 
> Mail to me, or post in reply to this message (I think
> the latter is more fun).
> 
> If the response turns out well I'll compile the results
> for a piece in TUGboat, with due credit to the
> contributors, of course.
> 
> Victor.


A reply rom one of the LaTeX "experts" in the Math Dept at the University
of Colorado at Denver....

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Please reforward this back.

      Victor,

          How about:

      Lay-Tex: A competent user who is neither a texpert, guru, nor hacker.


          ?
                      -- Dave Fisher

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