David Carlisle writes:
 > that is marked up in XML. It is true, that especially for mathematics,
 > there is not (yet?) a realistic authoring environment that produces
 > mathematics marked up to an XML dtd.

i know it won't suit the high-falutin' 20th century mathematicians
amongst us, but for the great unwashed MathType is perfectly
plausible. indeed

returning to Hans:

 >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.

its a shame we don't have a competition for "the most inaccurate and
ill-informed remarks made on  latex-l each month".

sebastian "low blood pressure" rahtz