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. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: [log in to unmask] tel: +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland