From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/41296 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matthias Weber Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: InDesign/InCopy vs. TeX and friends Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 11:28:45 -0400 Message-ID: <3625D0A0-D42B-46FE-8126-68E777EAEF41@indiana.edu> References: <1212254810.6158.61.camel@elbereth> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212334114 19858 80.91.229.12 (1 Jun 2008 15:28:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 15:28:34 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Jun 01 17:29:14 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K2pUe-0007oQ-3g for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:29:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC9F81FB95; Sun, 1 Jun 2008 17:28:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 21629-01-2; Sun, 1 Jun 2008 17:27:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AEBA1FCAF; Sun, 1 Jun 2008 17:27:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D19211FCAF for ; Sun, 1 Jun 2008 17:27:37 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 21629-01 for ; Sun, 1 Jun 2008 17:27:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from hartman.uits.indiana.edu (hartman.uits.indiana.edu [129.79.1.194]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 155491FC8E for ; Sun, 1 Jun 2008 17:26:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-relay.iu.edu (stjoseph.uits.indiana.edu [129.79.1.78]) by hartman.uits.indiana.edu (8.14.2/8.13.8/IU Messaging Team) with ESMTP id m51FQYFo010126 for ; Sun, 1 Jun 2008 11:26:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [10.0.1.2] (dial-126-9.dial.indiana.edu [156.56.126.9]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail-relay.iu.edu (8.13.8/8.12.10/IUPO) with ESMTP id m51FQU4W008045 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 1 Jun 2008 11:26:33 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:41296 Archived-At: One thing that hasn't been emphasized enough in this thread is the beneficial effect of TeX for the scientific community, in particular the mathematical, physical, and chemical sciences. TeX has made it possible to easily&freely prepare and distribute manuscripts. There even is a preprint server (www.arxiv.org) that accepts mostly TeX, giving worldwide access to many papers that would after their publication only be available through expensive journals. I don't know whether anybody has ever estimated the costs that all these benefits would have if one was using alternatives to TeX. It must be in the billions of dollars. Besides the ability of TeX to typeset formulas and its costs, it is its level of standardization that makes it so useful for scientists: TeX is an extremely well-defined system. My 15 year old TeX files still `TeX', despite changing computers and operating systems multiple times. The only drawback for the scientific community is that there is no easy way to parse TeX into Mathematics, i.e. make the formulas one can typeset intelligible to a computer algebra system. This is of course possible now with MathML. Matthias ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________