On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 04:16:55PM +0000, Sebastian Rahtz wrote: > You are ducking the (semi-serious) issue. What *do* you mean by the > archival and communication language? the fact that the word "TeX" is > recognized by mathematicians the world over? so long as they don't try > to exchange files.... I think virtually all mathematics today at a research level is written in LaTeX. I never heard of any problem in the last 5 years (say) exchanging files, except perhaps documents in Russian and Greek, and some problems with Amer Phys Soc documents until a couple of years ago. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: [log in to unmask] tel: 086-233 6090 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland