At 08:48 -0500 1998/12/05, Y&Y Inc. wrote: >... it is a fantasy world where >more than a handful of people use *ML at all, and a fantasy world where this >does something suitable for WWW viewing and simpler types of printing >just IMHO, of course. I used *ML as a collective term for those various ML's: Then a lot already use HTML, and this will be replaced XML if now Netscape and Microsoft and those will implement it on their WWW-browsers. The question is though if they are only markups how they should be on the one hand be able to become authoring languages -- writing math in WYSIWYG or *ML is hopeless, because it is difficult to make the code consistent: This is where this wish for macros comes in, but macros are too naive for sophisticated authoring outputs. So one still needs some kind of language that the author can use. And one the other hand, the question is how one should be able to indicate details about the graphical output: The idea must be that the author indicates as exactly as possible the information intended in every part of the manuscript. So sometimes it may be very detailed, and other times less detailed. >By the way, Chuck Bigelow once ran a contest for the stupidest remark on >comp.fonts. There was no shortage of competitors. Strangely the awardees >where not at all pleased... Such negativism is probably a good way to spread frustations that get in the way of more constructive developments. 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/>