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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!news.sgi.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.mindspring.com!usenet From: kpneal@pobox.com (Kevin P. Neal) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy Subject: Re: Betting on Unix Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 06:48:01 GMT Organization: Bedroom Retrocomputing Lines: 38 Message-ID: <5g2v73$ksp@camel2.mindspring.com> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <5fsull$gqd@web.nmti.com> <5g02nk$q63$1@Venus.mcs.net> <5g0je7$fk3@ousrvr3.oulu.fi> <5g1dhp$1uj$1@Jupiter.Mcs.Net> Reply-To: kpneal@pobox.com NNTP-Posting-Host: user-168-121-39-4.dialup.mindspring.com X-Server-Date: 11 Mar 1997 06:48:03 GMT X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:163880 comp.os.linux.networking:71572 comp.os.linux.setup:102036 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6291 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2787 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:56603 les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell) wrote: >In article <5g0je7$fk3@ousrvr3.oulu.fi>, >Tuomas Haarala <tuoppi@stekt.oulu.fi> wrote: >>Leslie Mikesell (les@MCS.COM) wrote: >>>>If I defer making it pretty until the last step why am I bothering with a >>>>WYSIWYG environment? >>> Because you can see what you're doing, >> >> Latex: I know what I'm doing and I can definately see it >> as long as my monitor is functional. >> >>> because you can let someone else do it for you, >> >> Check, I can. >Can you call up your local office temp center and ask for someone >proficient in Latex for a few hours without being suspected of >some kind of perversion? Has enlightenment really reached the masses >in Finland? You can't do that in the US... You sure can, if you pronounce LaTeX as La-Tech. Anybody wanna start a big, huge, pointless, unending thread about the pronounciation of LaTeX? It'd be a nice change of pace from the emacs vs vi vs the world threads, and the BSD vs Linux threads. Anybody? Anybody? No? Good. -- XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Junior, Comp. Sci. - House of Retrocomputing XCOMM mailto:kpneal@pobox.com - http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/ XCOMM kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu " *** StarDOS makes great coffee! ***" XCOMM From a mid-80's advertisement in "Compute's GAZETTE", a C64/C128 mag