Abiword could become the darling of the scientific world if it could handle mathematical notation in a manner similar to TeX.
1. The scientific world, especially those funded by grants, avoid using MS-Word because it isn't free. So compatibility with MS-Word is a non-issue (or at least not an important issue). 2. The very low cost of Abiword is attractive to poor scientists. 3. Cross platform compatibility would make life much easier since such a variety of platforms are used in the scientific world. 4. Internationalization is another driver because scientists tend to communinicate internationally. 5. Except for mathematical constructs, TeX and LaTeX are difficult to use well. Merging the best of Abiword and TeX makes sense. 6. XML would be apealing to many scientists who prefer the ability to use a text editor for much of their authoring work. I don't know if XML has tags for producing mathematical text ala TeX but such tags should not be hard to define. Version 2.0 perhaps? Regards, Bruce Koehn ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
