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Re: Inappropriate advocacy [Was: wikipedia's (ascii) math notation? emac
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Richard Riley |
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Re: Inappropriate advocacy [Was: wikipedia's (ascii) math notation? emacs easy-way to translate it?] |
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Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:18:40 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
> Hi, Xah!
>
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 10:22:01AM -0800, Xah Lee wrote:
>
>> When tech geekers speak of TeX, they often speak of in the domain of
>> mathematical knowledge presentation and publishing. In the math
>> knowledge presentation, i am a expert, and personally known that
>> <proprietary product> is a ORDER OF MAGNITUDE better than TeX.
>
> Everybody is asked not to advocate non-free products on the GNU
> mailing-lists/newsgroups, even when on-topic. There are other forums
> where one can do this (e.g. comp.emacs).
>
> Please don't do this again on help-gnu-emacs. Thanks!
>
>> Xah
I'm quite interested in this.
So one can not, for example, say "Visual Studio has this great feature Y
which is superior to Emacs function Z for the following reasons, can
anyone suggest how best to improve Emacs to reach the same level"?
Sounds a tad "non free" if you don't mind the pun.
- Re: wikipedia's (ascii) math notation? emacs easy-way to translate it?, Sven Utcke, 2008/12/01
- Re: wikipedia's (ascii) math notation? emacs easy-way to translate it?, Peter Dyballa, 2008/12/01
- Re: wikipedia's (ascii) math notation? emacs easy-way to translate it?, David Hansen, 2008/12/01
- Inappropriate advocacy [Was: wikipedia's (ascii) math notation? emacs easy-way to translate it?], Alan Mackenzie, 2008/12/02
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- Re: Inappropriate advocacy [Was: wikipedia's (ascii) math notation? emacs easy-way to translate it?],
Richard Riley <=
- Re: Inappropriate advocacy [Was: wikipedia's (ascii) math notation? emacs easy-way to translate it?], Alan Mackenzie, 2008/12/03
- Re: Inappropriate advocacy [Was: wikipedia's (ascii) math notation? emacs easy-way to translate it?], rustom, 2008/12/03
- Re: Inappropriate advocacy [Was: wikipedia's (ascii) math notation? emacs easy-way to translate it?], Juanma Barranquero, 2008/12/03
- Re: wikipedia's (ascii) math notation? emacs easy-way to translate it?, Tariq, 2008/12/04
- Re: wikipedia's (ascii) math notation? emacs easy-way to translate it?, Xah Lee, 2008/12/04
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- Re: Inappropriate advocacy [Was: wikipedia's (ascii) math notation? emacs easy-way to translate it?], Xah Lee, 2008/12/04
- Re: wikipedia's (ascii) math notation? emacs easy-way to translate it?, G. A. Edgar, 2008/12/04
- Re: wikipedia's (ascii) math notation? emacs easy-way to translate it?, Xah Lee, 2008/12/04
- Re: wikipedia's (ascii) math notation? emacs easy-way to translate it?, Andreas Politz, 2008/12/04
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- Re: Inappropriate advocacy, Miles Bader, 2008/12/05