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I assume you know that tex predates the web by many years?
by slashdave 2y ago
I assume you know that tex predates the web by many years?
- IshKebab 2y agoNothing in his comment suggested he was unaware of that so I'm not sure why you're asking.
- kerkeslager 2y agoSo? If I'm a modern user who needs my typesetting system to generate HTML, I'm not going to "forgive" a typesetting system because it's older than the web and use it even though it doesn't do what I need.
- slashdave 2y agoI am just trying to understand how you expect a typesetting system to be designed around a paradigm that doesn't exist yet.
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- CBarkleyU 2y agoWhile GP is not here, can you make me understand how exactly you deduced that GP expected TeX to be designed around said paradigm?
- kerkeslager 2y agoI don't expect LaTeX to be designed around a paradigm that didn't exist when LaTeX created. Why do you think anyone expects that? Why should anyone looking for a typesetting tool care when it was designed? Why don't you use a Commodore64? I know it doesn't do anything you need it to do, but you have to cut it some slack, it was designed before any of the things you need to do existed!
- setr 2y agoGP was complaining that new modern Tex competitors should be designing for this, to correct the fact that Tex doesn’t.