hans aberg wrote: > At 09:57 +0000 1998/12/02, Sebastian Rahtz wrote: > >Mark Steinberger writes: > > > The AMS has done one important thing that seems counter to the > > > interests of its publishing arm: bringing the postscript type 1 CM and > > > AMS fonts into the public domain. > >I don't think they are in the public domain, if I may quibble :-} > > I recall they are: BlueSky (who sells the MacOS TeX program Textures) > originally developed these commercially, as AMS felt they did could not > afford that. Later these were released for free use by a joint agreement > between BlueSky and AMS. there were three partners to the development -- the third being y&y (as you will no doubt be told); all three parties actually did (or funded) development work, so all three should be listed. as i'm sure y&y contributors to this list will tell you. > >I agree, all the way, in so far as *mathematics* is concerned. I don't > >know what you are going to do, as at present you seem to be stuck in > >the corner with wet paint all around you. MathML offers you a > >*possible* way out, albeit pretty unattractive from where you are > >sitting, but can you really afford to sit tight? Yes, possibly you can > >for a while. But if the usage of TeX shrinks to the maths community, > >you'll lose some of the commercial systems (Y&Y cant make a living from just > >mathematicians, can it?), a lot of the developer community and you'll > >lose things like CTAN; do you have the resources to maintain this just > >from within maths? > > I think the use of TeX is expanding: It is not only the standard in math, > but also pretty much at the XXX archive, and in many quarters of computer > science. i see no actual sign that use of tex is expanding. i even see students around here using word for theoretical computer science (which is maths that somehow doesn't want to speak its name ;-)... > The *ML movements are currently pretty orthogonal to what TeX can offer: > The *ML offer fast, simple typesetting, suitable for WWW and simpler types > of printing. you're trolling, aren't you? you're trying to cause apoplexy in sebastian, i can tell... robin