Chris Rowley writes: > > millions and millions of > > people write HTML happily every day, > > I though he meant "by hand" but I susepct he means they use authoting > tools that produce HTML. A very diferent meaning of "write" as well as i think the evidence is that commonest ways to create HTML pages are people using "vi" and "notepad". but i cant quote any sources for that > 2. That nearly all documents at present prepared for wweb publication > can be adequately desribed in HTML. good point > to imply that people both do and will and should produce LaTeX by > hand-coding. I do not think that they should; I am sure that they no > longer need to do so. Chris, i had no idea you been to Damascus! > Thus I feel that whatever document-level syntaxes(sp??) a future > version of LaTeX will read, they should be designed to clearly > represent the full complexity of the documant and its structure, not > to be easily hand-codable. Of course, backward-compatibility needs to hurrah. i agree, 100% Sebastian