Chris Rowley writes: > > its amazing how the tens of millions of Web users out there happily > > use this inferior technology, isn't it. > > Indeed, it is so amazing that I simply do not believe it. The WEB has one has to start asking if you and I inhabit the same world! yes, of course Web heads all want better and better and better wotsits, but the growth of Web usage is *surely* undeniable evidence that it satifies some basic needs? what else is happiness? > Would you be happy to have to do all your Java course on-line, without > a decent printer available? why do yo think i have a printer available as I do my course? > > of course, many are not 20th century mathematicians... > > And I am sure that the world is a better place for that:-)? > > Puts on statistical hat: I suspect that the proportion of this dying > race that uses the web is very high compared with the whole of the > great unwashed. i was talking abolute numbers, not proportions. hence the word "many". > lot of basic stuff in common. Thus in the context of this list, there > is no need to make a large distinction but just to extend our idea of > what a document is. sure, no large distinction. but Lucida New Math vs CMR is a detail > Even more interesting: I think that PDF is an excellnet medium for > viewing on screen, and printing if needed, a 10pt CM math document. > > And we happy breed of people, the 20C pure mathematicians, now do this > a lot thanks to the efforts of our professional bodies (and maybe some > publishers too;-). am curious to hear what your professional bodies have done to help you get your 10pt CM PDF documents up. sebastian