Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:24:38 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Geeky humor...
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> ejablow at cox.net 1/18/2007 8:41:09 PM >>>
>
>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.

Well, since I don't, I'm quite happy with WordPerfect as my electronic
typewriter.

mjw