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In article <oz.717820538@yorku.ca> oz@nexus.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit) writes:

>zeleny@husc9.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:

MZ:
>>When writing articles for this forum, I can reasonably expect everyone to
>>be familiar with TeX conventions (if they aren't, they damn well ought
>>to be).

OY:
>Actually, this "forum" has been around long enough and populated with
>enough many people to make that assumption somewhat baseless. Just as
>an example, there are those of us who cut teeth with troff long before
>"TeX" was a meaningful [leaving aside a particular italian comic book
>cowboy, that is] word. I will, however, cheerfully admit that "Andr\'e"
>is much easier to read and type than "Andr\o'e\(aa'", so I guess you
>could say that there are a few advantages to a document compiler that
>came about only a decade after troff.

Point well taken; however at this moment TeX has the advantage of being the
de facto worldwide math typesetting standard in the academic circles.  So
on the net which is fairly biased towards an academic audience, it is well
suited to doing the work of lingua franca for mathematically oriented
newsgroups.

>oz
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cordially,
mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
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