> (I won't say classes because I doubt whether too
> many of these people know there even is a LaTeX 2e).

This is also clearly true of much that comes my way.

>
> Which is indeed sad, since one can do so much more with (La)TeX.

Some of us do!

> The fact that the authors do the typesetting limits the design seriously
> (while saving the publisher a pile of money).

Mmm, most publishers do not want to pay for any design input for such
books anyway. So it would not make much difference who does the
typestting.


chris