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Re: FAQ LaTeX francaise V1.6

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From: Michael Hallgren
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 00:00
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Wessel Dankers wrote:
> 
> I appreciate the effort taken to supply french-speaking people with useful
> tips on (La)TeX, 

Yes, indeed a nice initiative -- there are french people who find it a
_lot_ easier to read french than dutch (swedish or english ;-))...



> but is it really necessary to make people all over the world
> download this *huge* amount of text (265k) over their 14k4 modem?


I guess it was nothing but the result of some inexperience with the Net
--- forgive once ;-).


> I mean,
> posting this faq as it is now into fr.comp.text.tex, and just the headers
> (\tableofcontents?) and an ftp pointer into comp.text.tex wouldn't be all that
> bad an idea.

No, it's not a bad idea.


> 
> I've heard of chauvinism but this is going too far :-)


Well, you might have kept this line in your private cave -- After all,
wasn't it you who wrote about saving download time :-).


--
Michael Hallgren, Easynet France
> 
> --
> Wessel Dankers
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Subject: Re: FAQ LaTeX francaise V1.6
Date: 1996/11/08
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