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From: ralph	 (Ralph P. Sobek)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: comp.text.TeX
Summary: A good idea!
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Date: 5 Jan 90 11:25:01 GMT
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I'm all for such a newsgroup, and also that it be bidirectionally
gatewayed with the TeXhax Digest.  The only qualm I have is with the
name.  In my opinion, the questions which concern TeX/LaTeX are of the
sort: 
1)	How do I do the following in {La}TeX?, or
2)	How come the following piece of {La}TeX does not do what I
	expect it to do?

In both of these cases, the problems are language issues concerning
TeX/LaTeX.  Therefore, I suggest that the name of the group be
comp.lang.TeX (if USENET accepts uppercase letters) or comp.lang.tex
(if not).  As precedent, we already have comp.lang.postscript.  I
believe that the comp.text hierarchy should concern types of text
processing, e.g., desktop.

Ralph P. Sobek			  Disclaimer: The above ruminations are my own.
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