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Whoa, are you the Bernard Fabrot that wrote intro to Linux books in the late '90s early '00s (https://www.amazon.com/Bernard-Fabrot/e/B004N6XBQC/ref=ntt_d...)? If yes, I have to say thank you very much — I owe you my career!

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And fun fact: that (french) book was actually typeset in LaTeX but I had to fight big times with my published/editor so that they'd accept LaTeX as they wanted me to typeset it using QuarkXPress. I knew how to use Quark XPress but I wanted that book to be typeset from Linux, with LaTeX. And eventually they accepted ^ ^

That's interesting. The fun fact is nobody uses QuarkXpress anymore (almost everyone in the design world switched to Indesign) while LaTeX ... is eternal. So wise choice.

That'd be me too!

I'd love to hear more about it: you can email me bernard @ fabrot dot com

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