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From: Leonard H. Tower Jr.
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 1990 01:13
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   Date: 20 Oct 90 13:34:58 GMT
   From: tim@maths.tcd.ie  (Timothy Murphy)
   Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

   There seems to be a constant stream of queries
   from people looking for texinfo.tex,
   or wondering what it is.
   I've found differences between different versions of texinfo
   causing problems printing GNU documents.

   Why doesn't GNU just drop texinfo,
   and use standard LaTeX?
   If there really are special needs in GNU documents --
   and I haven't come across any --
   why not write a GNU style file gnu.sty,
   for use with LaTeX?

   -- 

   Timothy Murphy  

   e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie

Because texinfo isn't used ONLY to produce typeset hardcopy documents,
it's also used to produce on line hypertext-like user documentation.

enjoy -len
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