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From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: The problem with not owning the software
Date: 31 Dec 2024 13:50:48 GMT
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Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
> On 2024-12-30 11:56, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> > Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
> >> On 2024-12-29 21:41, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> >>> Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
> >>> [...]
> >>>
> >>>> Amazing that none of you has mentioned latex.
> >>>
> >>>     This isn't that kind of group!
> >>
> >> Latex is software :-P
> > 
> >    Obviously, but as you used all lowercase, it screamed for a pun. And
> > of course, it's 'LaTeX'.
> > 
> > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX>
> 
> Well, I do not talk LaTeX, so I do not know.
> 
> I do know, though, that I do have a command named "latex" in my computer.
> 
> cer@Telcontar:~> latex --version
> pdfTeX 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.22 (TeX Live 2021/TeX Live for SUSE Linux)
> kpathsea version 6.3.3
> Copyright 2021 Han The Thanh (pdfTeX) et al.
> There is NO warranty.  Redistribution of this software is
> covered by the terms of both the pdfTeX copyright and
> the Lesser GNU General Public License.
> For more information about these matters, see the file
> named COPYING and the pdfTeX source.
> Primary author of pdfTeX: Han The Thanh (pdfTeX) et al.
> Compiled with libpng 1.6.34; using libpng 1.6.34
> Compiled with zlib 1.2.11; using zlib 1.2.13
> Compiled with xpdf version 4.03
> cer@Telcontar:~>

  Yes, I know you use Linux, so I indeed assumed that lowercase 'latex'
is a command on Linux.

  I've never used LaTeX either, but from the Wikipedia ppage, I
understand that LaTeX is the markup/formatting language and that
<something>TeX<something> is the software/program which processes that
language. That understanding id confirmed by the fact that your
'latex --version' output mentions '<something>TeX<something>', but not
'LaTeX'.

  Bottom line: Two guys talking about something they don't know anything
about! :-)