On 2021-11-29, at 13:18, Juan Manuel Macías <maciasch...@posteo.net> wrote:
> Marcin Borkowski writes: > >> Quite the contrary. The amount of confusion between TeX (engine)/TeX >> (language)/TeX (distro)/TeX-aware text editor/LaTeX (whatever) among >> novice/casual users has always been terrible. > > It's natural when those novice/casual users approach something that is > new to them, but nothing invincible when they want to learn. The "TeX" > ecosystem is not trivial, but I think that all, or almost all of us, > understand each other when things like 'TeX/LaTeX code', 'TeX engine', > 'LaTeX format', etc. are said. If the TeX language were somewhat > self-contained and widely used outside of TeX, I would see OK that the > language had its own name. But, since the TeX language is something that > almost only TeX understands (roughly said), I think the economy wins > here (IMHO). I don't see how we could improve everything by having half > a dozen more exotic names. Agreed, I just wanted to say that the situation with TeX is more complicated. Especially that 92%* TeX users are novice/casual users. * Number made up, but loosely based on anecdotal evidence;-). -- Marcin Borkowski http://mbork.pl
