On Thursday 17 July 2003 11:10, Torsten Bronger wrote: > Surprisingly enough, TeX is the most serious limitation at the > moment (of course also because it's so vital). It's still the best > back-end for typesetting something, however its treatment of > so-called special characters, lack of true unicode support, and the > distinction text/math mode is really unfortunate. Wouldn't "true unicode support" require fonts with 64000 glyphs? And isn't it quite sensible to distinguish between text and maths? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: [log in to unmask] tel: +353-86-233 6090 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland