From: Oliver Buerschaper <oliver.buerschaper@mpq.mpg.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: textext vs. btex ... etex
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:00:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <30F798E1-8D7B-4BFB-83DD-FE251A627AED@mpq.mpg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100818130234.GA4948@khaled-laptop>
> I always develop a kind of romantic relationship with the tools I use, I
> either hate it and stop using it no matter what it can or can not do; I
> hate OpenOffice and Qt, for example, and I would never, willingly use
> either. On the other hand, when I love some tool I never turn my back to
> it, no matter what shortcomings it might have, love is blind. I love
> TeX, and though it has a horrible macro language, I keep using it.
>
> One don't just drop his tools just because he can't, yet, figure out how
> to make it do what he wants. You have to try harder, show your love,
> your commitment, it will certainly pay back.
>
> ;)
Sigh.
Oliver
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-18 14:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-17 14:32 Oliver Buerschaper
2010-08-17 15:34 ` Hans Hagen
2010-08-18 12:20 ` Oliver Buerschaper
2010-08-18 13:02 ` Khaled Hosny
2010-08-18 14:00 ` Oliver Buerschaper [this message]
2010-08-18 14:34 ` Hans Hagen
2010-08-21 14:24 ` Oliver Buerschaper
2010-08-21 14:49 ` Taco Hoekwater
2010-08-22 7:53 ` Oliver Buerschaper
2010-08-22 9:32 ` Taco Hoekwater
2010-08-24 9:31 ` Oliver Buerschaper
2010-08-24 10:19 ` Taco Hoekwater
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