X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["579" "Fri" "17" "December" "1999" "09:00:48" "+1000" "Ken Smith" "kgs@MATHS.UQ.EDU.AU" nil "21" "Re: Is help available here?" "^Date:" nil nil "12" nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Return-Path: Received: via tmail-4.1(11) (invoked by user schoepf) for schoepf; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 00:04:35 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (trudi.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.159]) by mailserver2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA28617 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 00:04:35 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (mail.listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.5]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA15689 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 00:04:33 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.5) by mail.listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <11.BF729F72@mail.listserv.gmd.de>; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 0:04:27 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 445265 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 00:00:47 +0100 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA26052 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 00:00:41 +0100 (MET) Received: from bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au (bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au [130.102.2.1]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA07422 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 00:01:24 +0100 (MET) Received: from hamble.maths.uq.edu.au (hamble.maths.uq.edu.au [130.102.160.20]) by bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA18174 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 09:00:50 +1000 (GMT+1000) Received: (from kgs@localhost) by hamble.maths.uq.edu.au (8.8.6/0.0.0) id JAA00813 for LATEX-L@URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 09:00:48 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <199912162300.JAA00813@hamble.maths.uq.edu.au> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 09:00:48 +1000 From: Ken Smith Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: Is help available here? Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 3467 This is getting off-topic for the list, but ... > > Do the `people in the LaTeX 3 project' get paid directly for their > > work? > No. > They get the occasional air fair paid so we get to see each other a > couple of times a year. And very occasionally help with equipment > purchases. > LaTeX support is a hobby. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I suspect that most people (like me) who find themselves in a position where people yell for help about solving some LaTeX problem, also do it as a hobby - or, at least, like me, do it for love rather than money. > David Ken Smith