[Texmacs-dev] Re: Your presentation

[Joris van der Hoeven]

On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, sebastian sauer wrote:

> hi joris,
> 
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 03:43:09PM +0200, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
> 
> > I remember that you planned to make a presentation of TeXmacs
> > at Linuxwochen last month. Did you actually do this?
> > Did it work out well?
> yep. was pretty cool, some ppl. just stopped by @ linuxwochen to give
> texmacs a try.
> kwel thing: sven guckes (mathematican of mutt & vim fame) was moderating the 
> talks,
> and i would have never expected that, the was very supportative & quite
> impressed by texmacs & maxima :)
> interesting, most of the .at local latex guru's there like: "this texmacs
> cant be for real. i dont believe this."
> ahh ja, i did go into giving lyx the blast, not a single lyx user could
> give me any decent arguments of why one should be using lyx rather than
> texmacs.
> 
> and quite a few of the usual suspects in the .at (free) unix crowd did
> indirectly try texmacs as they read the announcment of my talk on
> texmacs.
> 
> denis havik, (of mankrakesoft) couldnt make it to vienna. anyway, i guess
> wont be that long until he stops by @ vienna again.
> 
> hope that answers your questions.
> more details to come, i'm still recovering from my days in budapest.

Thanks for the details and spend some nice holidays! --Joris