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Date:      Mon, 16 May 2005 23:28:55 -0700
From:      Sandy Rutherford <sandy@krvarr.bc.ca>
To:        Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
Cc:        Florian Hengstberger <e0025265@student.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject:   Re: tetex, latex, dvips
Message-ID:  <17033.36647.195132.991488@szamoca.krvarr.bc.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20050516215544.GA1693@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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>>>>> On Mon, 16 May 2005 23:55:44 +0200, 
>>>>> Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> said:

 > LaTeX3 (if it is ever finished) will be integrated into the different
 > distributions. OTOH, even Leslie Lamport seems to think that LaTeX will
 > fall into disuse in about five years. The consensus seems to be that ConTeXt
 > is the most modern TeX macro package.

I find this hard to believe.  There is simply too much scientific
publishing infrastructure invested into LaTeX for the AMS, APS,
Springer-Verlag, and others to make the shift without a good reason.
There are literally 100's of LaTeX compatible packages for specialised
scientific typesetting (commutative diagrams, Feynman diagrams, etc)
that would need to be rewritten.

Sandy



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