[XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort

[Khaled Hosny]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 06:42:42PM -0400, Alan Munn wrote:
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> On Sep 29, 2010, at 5:59 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote:
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> >
> >Am 29.09.2010 um 23:40 schrieb Philipp Stephani:
> >
> >>reality is approximately as follows: Users who read beginner
> >>documents such as lshort don't want to use TeX, but are forced
> >>to do so by their advisor. They don't want to read discussions
> >>about the pros and cons of various text editors or why Microsoft
> >>is evil. Beginners usually know how to visit web sites and how
> >>to create simple documents in Microsoft Word (perhaps in three
> >>years from now they might not know about the latter, simply
> >>because they don't need it). Not a bit more. They don't know
> >>what a text file or a text editor is, they have never heard the
> >>word "Unicode", and they have never used a programming language
> >>before. What they need are step-by-step instructions that tell
> >>them, in simple words, how to create TeX documents.
> >
> >This *might* have been the situation in the so-called first or
> >industrialised world 20 years ago.
> 
> 
> No, in fact this is very accurate (except maybe the part about being
> forced by advisors). How often do you actually interact with
> undergraduate (or even graduate students) Pete? My experience is
> that they're really good at updating their Facebook status, but
> things deteriorate quickly from there, exactly as Philipp describes.
> And I deal with a broad range of students at a major US research
> university.

Well, I myself graduated last month, so...

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 Khaled Hosny
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