Hans Aberg writes: > I thought it was the opposite, Sebastian speaking about the faith common > among businesses, but knowing nothing about the real world that researchers > experiences: It is like teaching students at an university which thinks well, to be fair to me, i have worked for 14 years in academia in various roles (including teaching CS) and only 4 in business :-} when i joined this company, I worked in TeX support, in a religious way; 4 years later, its plain as the nose on your face that TeX _as author/editor interface_ has lost the battle for market dominance. the Good Guys do not always win, historically [1] > The best way out of this dilemma for publishers and typesetters is to > having as little as possible with this semantic aspect of contents that the > mathematician supplies, and only provide the things that has to do with the > general graphical look: Anything else is going to be too expensive, and the > interface between mathematician and proof-readers does not work anyhow. sure. i might not argue with this > In order to support this, TeX was invented, and LaTeX was invented in order > to support using TeX as an authoring tool, even though most mathematicians and sadly, the mathematicians (led by the rather unusual Don Knuth) took a license to escape from the confines of $..$ and starting spending days and weeks formatting their bibliographies (an area which, you must admit, is NOT a special case for mathematicians) sebastian [1] sorry, you 20th century mathematicians, as an ex-archaeologist, now i am on _my_ territory.