> At 11:23 +0000 1998/12/02, Robin Fairbairns wrote: > >> 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 ;-)... > > I guess you only see what is expanding the fastest. (I do not see that > students have a great need for TeX either -- did they ever have that in the > past?) Nevertheless, I do not see that those uses of TeX will be replaced > very quickly by something *ML that cannot do the job. the majority of phd students here still do their dissertations in latex (characteristically awful latex, but there you are...). a goodly proportion of undergraduates do final year project dissertations that way, too. (although they often produce better latex since they don't have as much time to invent awful habits.) i see no reason why a *ml "that can't do the job" would be inhibited from encroaching. not doing the job hasn't stopped word, after all... robin