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On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 03:00:06PM +0000, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> > In the Introduction to the TeXbook Knuth says that TeX was intended
> > "especially for books that contain a lot of mathematics".
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> > In this area TeX _has_ taken over the world,
> > and there is absolutely no evidence that *ML
> > is challenging its pre-eminence.
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> so all those undergraduates who used to learn TeX and are now using
> Word do not exist?
I don't know about Oxford,
but I have never seen a mathematics student in Dublin
using Word for writing (or printing) mathematics.
The last mathematical thesis in Word that I saw
was about 8 years ago,
and that was by an Australian.
You live a very sheltered life among the dreaming spires.
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
tel: 086-233 6090
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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