From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Inappropriate advocacy [Was: wikipedia's (ascii) math notation? emacs easy-way to translate it?] Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 15:17:07 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <87oczwkmy2.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> <26c8eecf-4e39-4ef6-8a3c-83bdf7f1f32f@e1g2000pra.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1228383819 25269 80.91.229.12 (4 Dec 2008 09:43:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 09:43:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 04 10:44:42 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L8AlG-0007Sw-FA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:44:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54811 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L8Ak6-0003FY-3J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:43:30 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!w1g2000prm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 38 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.185.159 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1228346227 6725 127.0.0.1 (3 Dec 2008 23:17:07 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 23:17:07 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: w1g2000prm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.6.185.159; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.27.1, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:165026 comp.emacs:97420 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:42:55 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:60357 Archived-At: On Dec 2, 4:23 pm, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi,Xah! > > On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 10:22:01AM -0800,XahLee wrote: > > When tech geekers speak of TeX, they often speak of in the domain of > > mathematical knowledge presentation and publishing. In the math > > knowledge presentation, i am a expert, and personally known that > > is a ORDER OF MAGNITUDE better than TeX. > > Everybody is asked not to advocate non-free products on the GNU > mailing-lists/newsgroups, even when on-topic. There are other forums > where one can do this (e.g. comp.emacs). > > Please don't do this again on help-gnu-emacs. Thanks! It's not advocacy. The discussion disgressed to whether TeX is the best typesetting software. I quote the original message by David: =E2=80=9CIt's called TeX. Probably = the best type setting software out there.=E2=80=9D. I pointed out that it is a myth. I pointed out, in summary, i claim that in fact Mathematica, FrameMaker, QuarkXPress are all better as judged by professionals in their respective fields. Also, please understand that mentioning of other software here is not advocacy. For example, Google, Yahoo, MSN's search engine service, Apple's Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows OS and Microsoft Word, TextMate editor, Safari and Opera browsers, various distribution of Linuxes Desktops that are not sactioned by Free Software Foundation, several Unix=E2=84=A2es, are all frequently mentioned, and sometimes digressed into debate on their merits. Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84