2008/6/20 Matthew Szudzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > There's a pretty good chance that TeX is going to become obsolete, and > replaced by some HTML or XML derivative. Many technical publishers
No. There is simply no other comparable batch typesetter. > have already made the transition. See, for example, the following link > from Cambridge University Press > > > https://authornet.cambridge.org/information/productionguide/stm/XML_workflow.asp#xml_introduction And what software do you think they use in the typesetting stage? I'm pretty sure it's TeX. :-p > An interesting alternative project would be to create an HTML and MathML > GUI, with the intent of luring mathematicians and physicists away from > TeX. And then create an HTML/MathML to TeX converter, so that they can No sane mathematican will use anything else but TeX math syntax for communicating formulas. :-) Best Martin
