Mark Steinberger writes: > Many publishers already rely on authors to do the initial stages of > typesetting. > > I suspect that the percentage of such publications is on the > increase, and that the trend will accelerate. this is not true for my employers; we try and discourage authors from typesetting, it just muddies the waters > At least in mathematics, authors currently work in TeX (and if one is > lucky, latex). Authors may well be willing to learn a new system, but > only if they are given a good reason to do so. our authors do not use TeX for math; well, some do, some dont. lets not pretend its by any means its universal > Is there an adequate reason to move away from TeX? If not, then > authoring tools should be TeX-based. yes, there is a reason. it promotes abuse (mixing typesetting with structure), and its not very amenable to validation. well, all the reasons SGML was invented.... sebastian