From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: An article about Emacs for TUGboat Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 15:04:04 +0100 Message-ID: <87vaf17zqj.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <87tvuo4oez.fsf@mbork.pl> <3779DEDB-48B0-4AFD-8620-E249105E6CF3@gmail.com> <87r2ps3tex.fsf@mbork.pl> <2A376770-58D9-4864-94AC-9328C3D0F8D0@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1518530611 23822 195.159.176.226 (13 Feb 2018 14:03:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 14:03:31 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: mu4e 0.9.19; emacs 27.0.50 Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Sivaram Neelakantan Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 13 15:03:27 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1elbAo-0004g6-PQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 15:03:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36580 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1elbCq-0006f9-G4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 09:05:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53466) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1elbC3-0006d0-DX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 09:04:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1elbBz-0000cx-FO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 09:04:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:43694) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1elbBz-0000cZ-55 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 09:04:19 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A450E68C5; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 15:04:18 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id hIsz7bJck1XI; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 15:04:12 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (apn-31-1-171-82.dynamic.gprs.plus.pl [31.1.171.82]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7FA0AE6870; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 15:04:12 +0100 (CET) In-reply-to: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.110.48.8 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115971 Archived-At: On 2018-02-12, at 17:13, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > On Sun, Feb 11 2018,Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: > > > [snipped 26 lines] > >> But then, either the user knows what emacs is about and the half >> page will be redundant, or does not and then the half page won't be >> enough. >> >> But it really all depends on how you write that so I won't say more, >> besides that I'd love to help with the proofreading! >> > > I agree; while not trying to tell OP what to write, in the specific > case of Emacs, it would be nice if the focus is on how Emacs speeds up > LateX writing in general/vis-a-vis other editors instead of Emacs core > concepts. As I personally feel, anyone on LateX is going to be least > worried about Emacs framework but focused on getting the job done and > will Emacs help/speed things up in that regard or not. Well, you're probably right. Still, I think I need to introduce at least the very basics. I'll try to at least keep the intro as short as possible. Thanks, -- Marcin Borkowski