X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["895" "Tue" "17" "June" "1997" "14:06:28" "-0400" "Mark Steinberger" "mark@CSC.ALBANY.EDU" nil "21" "Re: ideal future document processing environment" "^Date:" nil nil "6" nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.5/8.8.4) with ESMTP id UAA26202; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 20:07:35 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <7.8C582087@listserv.gmd.de>; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 20:07:30 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 154837 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 20:07:22 +0200 Received: from sarah.albany.edu (sarah.albany.edu [169.226.1.103]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.7.6/8.7.4) with ESMTP id UAA27093 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 20:07:16 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from fenris.math.albany.edu (fenris.math.albany.edu [169.226.23.39]) by sarah.albany.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA08369 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 14:06:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from mark@localhost) by fenris.math.albany.edu (8.8.4/8.8.3) id OAA27185 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 14:06:29 -0400 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Content-Type: text Message-ID: <199706171806.OAA27185@fenris.math.albany.edu> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <199706171750.SAA03440@fell.open.ac.uk> from "Chris Rowley" at Jun 17, 97 07:53:11 pm Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 14:06:28 -0400 From: Mark Steinberger Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: ideal future document processing environment Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2088 Many publishers already rely on authors to do the initial stages of typesetting. I suspect that the percentage of such publications is on the increase, and that the trend will accelerate. At least in mathematics, authors currently work in TeX (and if one is lucky, latex). Authors may well be willing to learn a new system, but only if they are given a good reason to do so. Is there an adequate reason to move away from TeX? If not, then authoring tools should be TeX-based. --Mark -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Steinberger | http://math.albany.edu:8800/~mark Dept. of Math. & Stat | SUNY at Albany | Albany, NY 12222 | Editor in Chief, New York Journal of Mathematics mark@sarah.albany.edu | http://nyjm.albany.edu:8000/nyjm.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------