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". > > > > 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? 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