On Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 01:04:32PM +0000, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

> 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]

But surely not in the mathematical arena?
I just looked at a random selection of 15 new books
on the way to our research library,
and as far as I could see they were all written in TeX/LaTeX.
The publishers were fairly well distributed:
Springer (5), Birkhauser (2), Soc Math de France (2), SIAM (2),
CRC, CRM, AMS, CSLI.


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