X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1515" "Wed" "2" "December" "1998" "12:58:12" "+0100" "Hans Aberg" "haberg@MATEMATIK.SU.SE" nil "34" "Re: What is \"base\" LaTeX" "^Date:" nil nil "12" 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 NAA17154; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 13:00:09 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <11.2528C4F0@listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 13:00:05 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 412439 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 12:59:57 +0100 Received: from mail0.nada.kth.se (mail0.nada.kth.se [130.237.222.70]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA21344 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 12:58:54 +0100 (MET) Received: from [130.237.37.42] (sl22.modempool.kth.se [130.237.37.42]) by mail0.nada.kth.se (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA17704 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 12:58:14 +0100 (MET) X-Sender: su95-hab@mail.nada.kth.se References: Your message of "Wed, 02 Dec 1998 12:16:01 +0100." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 12:58:12 +0100 From: Hans Aberg 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: 3015 At 11:23 +0000 1998/12/02, Robin Fairbairns wrote: >> I think the use of TeX is expanding: It is not only the standard in math, >> but also pretty much at the XXX archive, and in many quarters of computer >> science. > >i see no actual sign that use of tex is expanding. i even see >students around here using word for theoretical computer science >(which is maths that somehow doesn't want to speak its name ;-)... I guess you only see what is expanding the fastest. (I do not see that students have a great need for TeX either -- did they ever have that in the past?) Nevertheless, I do not see that those uses of TeX will be replaced very quickly by something *ML that cannot do the job. >> The *ML movements are currently pretty orthogonal to what TeX can offer: >> The *ML offer fast, simple typesetting, suitable for WWW and simpler types >> of printing. > >you're trolling, aren't you? you're trying to cause apoplexy in >sebastian, i can tell... He is causing apoplexy within himself most of the time, I think, if that's what you mean. :-) Otherwise, it must be those claiming that a *ML system has the capacity of providing advanced typesetting which does not have the capacity of conveniently providing the authoring and typesetting that TeX has, must be those that are trolling. Hans Aberg * Email: Hans Aberg * Home Page: * AMS member listing: