Re: [SEMI-OT] Applications in a typical ion3 desktop environment

> other stuff

latex, rubber, 


... dramatic pause ...


bibtex, metapost, xdvi, xpdf, gv, psbind -3 [*], dvipdfm.

And should we start listing latex packages too?


Seriously though, this listing of all the software one uses
and that is far removed from setting up a consistent "ionic" 
operating (no desktops here!) environment, could be seen as 
spamming the list. A wiki would be a better location for this
sort of stuff but, alas, it's too much of a hassle to set up
one that wouldn't start sucking. 

Maybe some site offers "ad hoc wikis", a bit akin to pastebots?


[*] With narrow text column classes such as amsart, three pages 
fit on one side of an A4 just fine with psbind, and saves a lot 
of paper -- together with duplex printing, of course.

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