[texhax] LaTeX users mailing list

[Shawn Wilson]

Some users like mailing lists, some like irc, some like the web. I find its a culture thing. If I need perl help, I'll get on IRC. If I want Unix help, I'll use a mailing list. Apparently we don't have a mac.info archive for this list (maybe that should be done). 

I think there's also a user acceptance part to this. Not many people use tex. Everyone I know that does layout stuff used xml (docbook and such). My cousin did his EE thesis in word (no idea how). At $work we have perl scripts that generate documents (don't ask - I didn't do it). 

I only started using tex because I am finding the need to do presentations and refuse to use anything I can't track in source control (and I *hate* xml).

As an aside of my experience so far: I've found, info for creating non-science docs is lacking (I might want math in a doc but it isn't my use case). Everything else is starting to ship with an online package manager (perl has shipped with cpan for ~15 years) yet tlmgr is separate. 

Xochitl CORMON <Xochitl.Cormon at ifremer.fr> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I already knew the stackexchange forum but thank you for your answers. 
>Indeed I think a mailing list is much more convenient as you get info
>on 
>stuff you might need later even if you don't know it yet... Anyway I 
>will keep posting stuff here and maybe also use stackexchange.
>
>Thank you,
>
>Xochitl C.
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>Le 10/09/2013 14:12, Philip Taylor a écrit :
>>
>>
>> Xochitl CORMON wrote:
>>
>>> I have the impression this mailing list is not really active if I
>>> compare to other mailing list I member of? Is that a wrong
>impression or
>>> is there other LaTeX users mailing list I should know about?
>>
>> I think it is possible that some have migrated to Stack Exchange, for
>> reasons that are not personally clear to me.  You might like to
>> investigate the TeX fora hosted there :
>>
>> 	http://tex.stackexchange.com/
>>
>> Philip Taylor
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