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Mon, 12 Feb 2001 15:00:06 +0000
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Timothy Murphy writes:
 > > TeX, per se, failed in its attempt to take over the world.
 >
 > Did Knuth ever intend to "take over the world"?

his acolytes did

 > In the Introduction to the TeXbook Knuth says that TeX was intended
 > "especially for books that contain a lot of mathematics".
 >
 > In this area TeX _has_ taken over the world,
 > and there is absolutely no evidence that *ML
 > is challenging its pre-eminence.

so all those undergraduates who used to learn TeX and are now using
Word do not exist?

sebastian

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