Am 29.09.2010 um 23:40 schrieb Philipp Stephani:
reality is approximately as follows: Users who read beginner
documents such as lshort don't want to use TeX, but are forced to do
so by their advisor. They don't want to read discussions about the
pros and cons of various text editors or why Microsoft is evil.
Beginners usually know how to visit web sites and how to create
simple documents in Microsoft Word (perhaps in three years from now
they might not know about the latter, simply because they don't need
it). Not a bit more. They don't know what a text file or a text
editor is, they have never heard the word "Unicode", and they have
never used a programming language before. What they need are step-by-
step instructions that tell them, in simple words, how to create TeX
documents.
This *might* have been the situation in the so-called first or
industrialised world 20 years ago.
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Mit friedvollen Grüßen
Pete
Die Zeit wird kommen, da unsere Nachkommen sich wundern werden, wie
wir so wunderbare Dinge einfach gewusst haben konnten.
(Ein Optimist nach Lucius Annæus Seneca)
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