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Fri Dec 23 00:54:56 CET 2005 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-December/059014.html

On Thursday 22 December 2005 13:23, skip at pobox.com wrote:
 > Who is asking this of potential contributors?  I know you, Aahz and I have
 > repeatedly told people on c.l.py that LaTeX knowledge is not necessary.
 > Plain text is okay.  What do we need to do to squash this meme?

As Andrew noted, it doesn't really matter who it was.  That person is now 
aware of what's going on, I think.  :-)

I've added a note to the "developer's intro," and there should probably be a 
note in the development FAQ as well.

 > Tony & other python-dev summarizers (and maybe Cameron Laird for the
 > c.l.py summaries): please make a note of this in your next summary.  The
 > I-can't-contribute-because-I-don't-know-LaTeX notion has to die, die, die.

An excellent idea!

  -Fred

-- 
Fred L. Drake, Jr.   <fdrake at acm.org>

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