At 11:16 -0500 1998/12/02, William F. Hammond wrote: >: I think it is well-known by now, that all these mass-consumer movements, >: which the *ML currently represents, usually lacks crucial quality. >: Eventually such quality might built in, of course. > >Only because very few elitist mathematicians have been involved (up to >now). > >: But until then, there will be a need for TeX/LaTeX. > >And beyond then, as well! I think that when at the point when the various *ML movements have moved so far that they have the capacity of generating a manuscript with all the information that a mathematician want, then one would still need a NL (notational language) with capacity of accepting less corny syntaxes than the SGML stuff. But then there is no point in using TeX/LaTeX as everything that can be done in those languages can be done more conveniently and accurately in this NL. Hans Aberg * Email: Hans Aberg <mailto:[log in to unmask]> * Home Page: <http://www.matematik.su.se/~haberg/> * AMS member listing: <http://www.ams.org/cml/>