Re: [Texmacs-dev] major barrier to adoption

[Henri Lesourd]

Karl Winterling wrote:

> In my (rather limited, I admit) experience, most math people at my 
> school (Berkeley) use LaTeX because one can easily download 
> self-installing executables for LaTeX.  Although Macintoshes tend to 
> enjoy more popularity, most (at least to my knowledge) students and 
> professors don't seem all that interested in computers and don't want 
> the trouble of setting up Fink.
This is one of our major tasks for this year : to get
rid once for all of the UNIX idiosyncracies of TeXmacs,
and have a native install of TeXmacs for all the important
platforms (i.e., Windows & Mac OS). Thus in some months
from now, people will not have these kinds of excuses
for not using TeXmacs anymore ;-)...