[Info-vax] Open Source on OpenVMS Conference Call - 08:00 EDT 16 Sep 2021

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <memo.20210910204720.9608F at jgd.cix.co.uk>, jgd at cix.co.uk
(John Dallman) writes: 

> > > Something to think about: LaTeX and associated software is used 
> > > by a huge number of people.
> > 
> > Depends on what you consider huge number.
> > 
> > There must be hundreds of thousands of people using Tex/LaTex at
> > universities particular at math and natural sciences departments.
> > 
> > But there are billions of people using MS Office, LibreOffice,
> > Google Docs etc..
> 
> Pick the low-hanging fruit first? Getting LaTeX going will be
> substantially simpler than porting Libre Office or a full-fat web browser.

Indeed.