From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: "Juan Manuel Macías" <maciaschain@posteo.net>
Cc: orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: "Orgdown", the new name for the syntax of Org-mode
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 13:36:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wnkrp29x.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o8636tpe.fsf@posteo.net>
On 2021-11-29, at 13:18, Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net> wrote:
> Marcin Borkowski writes:
>
>> Quite the contrary. The amount of confusion between TeX (engine)/TeX
>> (language)/TeX (distro)/TeX-aware text editor/LaTeX (whatever) among
>> novice/casual users has always been terrible.
>
> It's natural when those novice/casual users approach something that is
> new to them, but nothing invincible when they want to learn. The "TeX"
> ecosystem is not trivial, but I think that all, or almost all of us,
> understand each other when things like 'TeX/LaTeX code', 'TeX engine',
> 'LaTeX format', etc. are said. If the TeX language were somewhat
> self-contained and widely used outside of TeX, I would see OK that the
> language had its own name. But, since the TeX language is something that
> almost only TeX understands (roughly said), I think the economy wins
> here (IMHO). I don't see how we could improve everything by having half
> a dozen more exotic names.
Agreed, I just wanted to say that the situation with TeX is more
complicated. Especially that 92%* TeX users are novice/casual users.
* Number made up, but loosely based on anecdotal evidence;-).
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-28 19:46 "Orgdown", the new name for the syntax of Org-mode Karl Voit
2021-11-28 21:34 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2021-11-28 21:39 ` Bruce D'Arcus
2021-11-28 21:50 ` Tom Gillespie
2021-11-28 22:25 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-11-28 22:57 ` Tom Gillespie
2021-11-28 23:16 ` Joost Kremers
2021-11-29 1:36 ` George Mauer
2021-11-29 3:25 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-11-29 7:13 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2021-11-28 23:24 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2021-11-29 3:25 ` Devin Prater
2021-12-26 14:54 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2021-11-29 5:41 ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-11-29 12:18 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-11-29 12:36 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2021-11-28 22:42 ` Tim Cross
2021-11-29 13:19 ` Karl Voit
2021-11-29 15:12 ` Matt Price
2021-11-29 18:27 ` M. ‘quintus’ Gülker
2021-11-30 7:39 ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-11-30 20:44 ` Orgdown: negative feedback & attempt of a root-cause analysis (was: "Orgdown", the new name for the syntax of Org-mode) Karl Voit
2021-11-30 22:28 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2021-11-30 22:50 ` Eduardo Ochs
2021-12-01 0:41 ` Tom Gillespie
2021-12-01 1:12 ` Tim Cross
2021-12-01 3:28 ` Orgdown: negative feedback & attempt of a root-cause analysis Juan Manuel Macías
2021-12-01 21:17 ` Orgdown: negative feedback & attempt of a root-cause analysis (was: "Orgdown", the new name for the syntax of Org-mode) M. ‘quintus’ Gülker
2021-12-02 6:50 ` Orgdown: negative feedback & attempt of a root-cause analysis Eric S Fraga
2021-12-01 23:43 ` Karl Voit
2021-12-02 1:44 ` Tim Cross
2021-12-02 2:12 ` George Mauer
2021-12-02 8:07 ` Greg Minshall
2021-11-29 2:22 ` "Orgdown", the new name for the syntax of Org-mode Jim Porter
2021-11-29 2:33 ` Michael Ashton
2021-11-29 12:38 ` Max Nikulin
2021-11-29 12:58 ` Christophe Schockaert
2021-11-30 23:50 ` Samuel Wales
2021-11-30 23:56 ` Samuel Wales
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