[OS X TeX] Re: The virtual TeX guru

[Michael S. Hanson]

On May 6, 2004, at 10:36 AM, William F. Adams wrote:

>>> There's a new, up-dated _The LaTeX Companion_, and some of its 
>>> proceeds goes toward funding LaTeX3 --- what more could a typical 
>>> LaTeX user want?
>>
>> a dynamic, searchable, electronic TeX companion
>
> Well, I've got a ``periodicals/tugboat'' directory too, w/ all of the 
> on-line TUGboats... and for years I've been saving interesting posts 
> from comp.text.tex and filing them away into a ``texts/tex/...'' 
> directory structure.
>
> I've also saved pretty much every message from this list and texhax 
> and the latex3 list in Mail.app here at work --- all searchable, need 
> to look into transferring that to my pen slate.

	And then please look into transferring all that to an 
Internet-accessible database with a decent front-end -- so the rest of 
humanity can benefit from your efforts.  ;)

                                         -- Mike

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