X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["781" "Wed" "25" "November" "1998" "16:57:42" "+0000" "Timothy Murphy" "tim@MATHS.TCD.IE" nil "21" "Re: What is \"base\" LaTeX" "^Date:" nil nil "11" nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA30303; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 17:57:53 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <10.96190F9A@listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 17:57:52 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 411232 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 17:57:47 +0100 Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (mmdf@salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA02512 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 17:57:44 +0100 (MET) Received: from boole.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 25 Nov 98 16:57:42 +0000 (GMT) References: <13914.43859.281032.18501@srahtz> <365A9F55.88C46733@na.uni-tuebingen.de> <199811142302.AAA24385@na6.mathematik.uni-tuebingen.de> <13913.60537.514744.407614@srahtz> <13916.96.643934.277862@srahtz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i Message-ID: <19981125165741.D8854@maths.tcd.ie> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <13916.96.643934.277862@srahtz>; from Sebastian Rahtz on Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 01:04:32PM +0000 Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 16:57:42 +0000 From: Timothy Murphy Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: What is "base" LaTeX Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2923 On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 01:04:32PM +0000, Sebastian Rahtz wrote: > when i joined this company, I worked in TeX support, in a religious > way; 4 years later, its plain as the nose on your face that TeX _as > author/editor interface_ has lost the battle for market dominance. the > Good Guys do not always win, historically [1] But surely not in the mathematical arena? I just looked at a random selection of 15 new books on the way to our research library, and as far as I could see they were all written in TeX/LaTeX. The publishers were fairly well distributed: Springer (5), Birkhauser (2), Soc Math de France (2), SIAM (2), CRC, CRM, AMS, CSLI. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland