Chris Rowley writes: > Even more eternally, it is the unique public de facto archival and > communication language for research activity in a range of disciplines > around mathematics ... and in this sense it is growing in importance > even now. gracious. the signs are all around us, I see it now. > But this has very little to do with TeX the program or LaTeX as it is > being discussed here. except that I question what this is all for. we have (in my view), five things kicking around 1 TeX the typesetting engine 2 TeX the typesetting markup language 3 TeX the archival-files-which-must-format-identically 4 (La)TeX the style design language 5 LaTeX the authoring language which is the important bit? which is the "unique public de facto archival and communication language", exactly? sebastian