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   Jim Diamond to Henrik Carlqvist   
   Re: Latex   
   13 Mar 23 21:14:19   
   
   From: JimDiamond@ns.sympatico.ca   
      
   On 2023-03-12 at 08:04 ADT, Henrik Carlqvist    
   wrote:   
   > On Sun, 12 Mar 2023 03:52:06 +0000, Javier wrote:   
   >> In fact, TeX is not very popular among UNIX programmers, and software   
   >> documentation is seldom written in LaTeX (with the exception of people   
   >> doing maths and physics).   
      
   > This is true, if you are only writing some programming documentation like   
   > some design description or a requirement specification most people will   
   > find it easier and more efficient to use som graphical office application   
   > like LibreOffice or MS Word.   
      
   That presumes they know one of those; not everyone who does software   
   development was indoctrinated into the M$ tool space.  I've seen people use   
   all sorts of tools to produce documentation.  (Sometimes even just ordinary   
   plain text!)   
      
                                   Jim   
      
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