From: Eric Jablow <ejablow at cox.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Geeky humor...
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:41:09 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On Jan 18, 2007, at 5:06 PM, Michael Walsh wrote:

> "Not everyone was cut out to use vi or Emacs for simple text editing,
> let alone using TeX for layout. To most people, recompiling a kernel
> has
> something to do with popcorn. Besides, most of the guys I knew that
> were TeX fanatics were anti-social math/programming geniuses
> capable of
> hunting down and killing their dinner each night with a slide rule."

If you want to do any scientific publishing, or linguistic critical
edition publishing,
you really don't have any choices other than TeX and its children.
Believe me,
graphical equation editors are worse than useless.

On the other hand, I am anti-social, so that's pretty much correct.

Respectfully,
Eric Jablow