[OS X TeX] Re: List of feature requests on this list

Roussanka Loukanova rloukano at stp.lingfil.uu.se
Thu Mar 27 08:00:07 EDT 2008


Actually, I've sent this to the List, regardless of the opposite intention 
not to clutter the List with extra email.

Roussanka

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Roussanka Loukanova wrote:

> Alain, hope for your apologies if you would prefer me sending this email to 
> the TeX on Mac OS X Mailing *List* instead directly to you. You know better 
> the list courtesy, so feel free to forward this message, partly or entirely, 
> to the list.
>
> I think that that momentous psychological effect was triggered by the 
> accidental combination of several things, each of which is correct by itself: 
> warning, capitals, and the expression "this list". We know that it refers to 
> the list of requested features, but the email is in the setting of the 
> Mailing List.
>
> Despite the two occurrences of the word "list" in the subject line, which do 
> point to two different usages of the word "list",  there is that passing 
> thought "What is happening to the List?!", esp., in the context of the recent 
> renewal of the List.
>
> The right wordings are up to you (I am, after all, far lesser
> native EN speaker than you), but perhaps something like
>
>>  This list is absolutely not an alternative to making requests at
>
> The following list of (TeXShop) feature requests is absolutely not ...
>
> OR
>
> The following (TeXShop) feature requests are absolutely not an alternative to 
> making requests at
>
> OR
>
> We have collected, up to now, the following (TeXShop) feature requests, which 
> absolutely do not replace making requests at
>
> May be the word TeXShop should be skipped; but perhaps it is good to be in 
> the warning for clearness, if indeed this is about TeXShop features, as I 
> have understood it.
>
> Roussanka
>
>>  http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=155796&atid=797241 (This thread
>>  started as a way to gauge the importance accorded to wishes on this list
>>  but, while "voting" didn't seem to generate much interest, "keeping track"
>>  seems to have.)
>>
>>  Regards
>>  --schremmer



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