Re: "Orgdown", the new name for the syntax of Org-mode

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2021-11-29, at 13:18, Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net> wrote:

> Marcin Borkowski writes:
>
>> Quite the contrary.  The amount of confusion between TeX (engine)/TeX
>> (language)/TeX (distro)/TeX-aware text editor/LaTeX (whatever) among
>> novice/casual users has always been terrible.
>
> It's natural when those novice/casual users approach something that is
> new to them, but nothing invincible when they want to learn. The "TeX"
> ecosystem is not trivial, but I think that all, or almost all of us,
> understand each other when things like 'TeX/LaTeX code', 'TeX engine',
> 'LaTeX format', etc. are said. If the TeX language were somewhat
> self-contained and widely used outside of TeX, I would see OK that the
> language had its own name. But, since the TeX language is something that
> almost only TeX understands (roughly said), I think the economy wins
> here (IMHO). I don't see how we could improve everything by having half
> a dozen more exotic names.

Agreed, I just wanted to say that the situation with TeX is more
complicated.  Especially that 92%* TeX users are novice/casual users.

* Number made up, but loosely based on anecdotal evidence;-).

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