Chris Rowley writes: > There has always (I suspect) been, and continues to be, a very close > relationship between the producers of complex mathematical > manu/compuscripts and the providers of the technology to make it > easily available to others. in maths, sure, i accept this. but not in many other fields > The recent large amount of activity in the math fonts area has also been > driven largely by concerned mathematicians, either directly or via > learned societies such as the AMS. i bet they wished they did not have to work on it! > This is not quite on the level of typesetting technology but the > principle is the same: the tradition of knowing what is needed resides > almost entirely within the mathematical community, so we must be involved > whatever the tax-payers think. hmm. why do mathematicians always present themselves as a special case? > PS: And I shall arrange a small personal refund to Sebastian to cover > the minute proportion of my time that I spend on this kind of you choose to make typesetting your research area, so you are covered :-} anyway, you are (and you know it!) deliberately misrepresenting my basic view point.... sebastian