Re: [Texmacs-dev] major barrier to adoption

[Amir Michail]

On Jan 11, 2008 12:26 PM, Jeremy Henty <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 04:32:24PM +0100, Henri Lesourd wrote:
>
> > Less and less people care about TeX, in fact, but it takes time.
>
> Knuth's  70th birthday has  prompted many  maths/CS bloggers  to write
> about him  and TeX, and it's  striking how many of  them say (roughly)
> "TeX is *horrible*, but nothing else is remotely good enough".
>
> Unfortunately people  often assume that TeXmacs is  just another front
> end  to  TeX  (see  eg.   my  attempt to  correct  this  confusion  at
> <URL:http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=303#comment-16572>).
>

Also see:

http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=212#comment-10474

Even after correcting any confusion on the matter, they would still
not be interested.  Besides the style file problem, I think it's a
combination of peer pressure, respect for Knuth, and doubts that the
algorithms used in TeXmacs are just as good as the ones written by a
Turing award winner.

Amir

> Regards,
>
> Jeremy Henty
>
>
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