Apologies, sent this just to Michael and not the whole list:
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From: Chris wallace <
crassshed@gmail.com>
Date: 06-Jun-2006 17:01
Subject: Re: [Emacs-orgmode] Re: [David O'Toole] Fwd: Re: org-publish future ?
To: Michael Olson <mwolson@gnu.org>
Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:
> Yes, this is certainly true. ascii-to-xxx converters can certainly
> help you to write your first LaTeX document. However, they don't
> encourage to grow into that language at all, so to some extend they
> are a dead end.
I disagree. It would give people an excellent foundation that they
can build upon, since they can examine the output from that publishing
routine to learn LaTeX. When they come across limitations of the
current LaTeX publishing implementation, they will search for
supplemental information.