Mark Steinberger's contribution reminded me to take up another of Sebastian's assertions: that the use of TeX is declining. This is certainly true of some of the worlds I inhabit and this is neither surprising nor worrying given the number of free and expensive (and in-between) systems now available that are reasonably easy to use and produce reasonable results. However, in other of my worlds (in particular the one that Mark also hangs out in quite a lot) the use of TeX is increasing very rapidly and ihas become simply "part of the furniture". This has led to (as I see it) an unfortunate attitude, particularly on the aprt of some very powerful people, that I would summarise as follows: Classic TeX must remain unchanged and be used for ever. Classic here means: pk cm (note not ec) fonts; hand entry with dumb editors; nothing hyper; ... Somewhat worrying? chris