On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 10:51:11AM +0200, Javier Bezos wrote: > Python can be modified only if you know C, but > LaTeX can be modified simply if you know LaTeX (and maybe TeX). This is a truly bizarre comparison. First of all, the number of people who know C is an order of magnitude large than those who know TeX/LaTeX . Secondly, it is in fact easy to fiddle with Python files without knowing any Python, let alone C. I'm on a mailman-user list, and people seem to spend their entire lives doing this. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: [log in to unmask] tel: 086-233 6090 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland