> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 20:07:47 +0100 > From: Timothy Murphy <[log in to unmask]> > > Personally, I would have far more faith in the AMS acting sensibly toward TeX > than I would in Debian. Surely you are right. AMS people work with TeX, and for them it is an important tool. Debian developers are mostly ignorant about TeX; for them it is an exotic product of dubious value. Some of them seem to be ready to sacrifice its important features to an ideological purity. -- Good luck -Boris It is not that polar co-ordinates are complicated, it is simply that cartesian co-ordinates are simpler than they have a right to be. -- Kleppner & Kolenhow, "An Introduction to Mechanics"