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Re: [stellation-res] (Paper stuff)
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On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 11:19:04AM +0000, Mark C. Chu-Carroll wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 16:09, Jonathan Gossage wrote:
> > >
> > > We'll be writing the document in latex.
> I would rather strangle myself than try to write a technical
> paper in word; not to mention the fact that I don't even own a
> copy of it!
>
This is the key point. Latex is open source, and is free; Word is proprietary, and
is not. Even if Word were superior (which it isn't), we can't require that unpaid volunteers
have to pay their own money to buy a copy of Word so they can work on this paper.
There are a couple of .ltx files in the CVS tree, in misc/doc/specs. They can show you,
by example, much of what you need to know; as for the rest, Mark is a real expert (turns out
in a prior life he was one of the earlier testers of Tex).
dave
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