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Article #1109Re: Help me defend LaTeX
From: Piet van Oostrum
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1989 10:40
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1989 10:40
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In article <2602@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>, dhosek@jarthur (D.A. Hosek) writes:
Besides, I think that pushing spelling correctors can
`be just as dangerous as pushing formatting languages (if not more so), since
`there is a tendency for people with spelling checkers to never read their
`work (believe me, I've seen it on many an occasion). I find it very
`annoying to read text that says things like "they never read there work".
`going to go away: SGML is an international standard, far more techincal
^^^^^^^^^
this would have been caught by a spelling checker
`journals except TeX/LaTeX/AmSTeX files than MS-Word files, the stuff is
^^^^^^
this one only by reading your work. (I suppose you mean accept)
Or was this just an illustration of your point :=)
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Piet van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, University of Utrecht
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!piet From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Help me defend LaTeX Keywords: TeX, LaTeX, technical writing Message-ID: <1738@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> Date: 25 Oct 89 10:40:57 GMT References: <1762@naucse.UUCP> <71781@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <2602@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> Sender: news@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl Reply-To: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) Organization: Dept of Computer Science, University of Utrecht, Holland Lines: 22 In-reply-to: dhosek@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (D.A. Hosek)