QSCGZ
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Re: why .ps ?
Posted:
Aug 7, 2000 8:41 AM
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Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>> >No-one can complain that TeX is elitist. Every effort
>> for non-mathematicians it might appear as such.
>I disagree. If anything, TeX has made the papers of
>mathematicians more accesible. As I said before, previously
>they were only available if the author sent you a copy,
>or if you has access to a good university library.
now, was it mainly TeX which increased accessability ?
or advance of computers and internet and ejournals ?
You can't well compare with the past in a field of such fast progressing.
Compare with the availability of papers in other scientific areas.
>For example, you could send a polite message to sci.math, or
>to comp.text.tex, asking where software is available. You
>would receive several answers, including pointers to FAQ's
>that would give you tons of info.
to my experience, most people won't do this. I.e. not for problems
of small importance . These are less important but arise more frequently.
>TeX, ps, and dvi give the whole world a way to easily communicate
>mathematics to each other, retaining the beauty of the well
>typeset document.
maybe easily to each other _mathematician_. To others it's not so easy.
>Maybe the first time you see a dvi, ps or tex document, you
>may feel some frustration. But if you are to enter or
>partake in any way into the math community, the very small
>amount of effort required to install tex will quickly pass.
>
>Really, I think if you spend a little time to learn TeX or
>LaTeX, you will quickly begin to appreciate what a wonderful
>tool it is. You will revel in seeing your favorite math
>formulas appear in such beauty, and you will not want to
>go back.
that may well be the case. (Although I'm not searching for beauty
in appearance of math-papers)
Maybe it's easier with UNIX , maybe I was just unlucky with some rare
problems , maybe I overestimated the installing/learning process.
I don't want to go back , but I still think , and mentioned already
several times , that I want to be able to download both , TeX and ASCII.
Or alternatively a good TeX2asci.exe .
Maybe I should had chosen "save ASCII" or such as subject line.
I suggested in another post or email to simply attach the ASCII-version
to the .ps or .tex such that the reader ignores them , but the editor
can delete the first part.
--qscgz
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