Edd Barrett wrote:
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> Matthew Szudzik wrote:
>>> - A good TeX to html convertor (extensible)
>>> - A good TeX gui
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>> There's a pretty good chance that TeX is going to become obsolete, and
>> replaced by some HTML or XML derivative.
Hahahahahahah... Have you ever written a single mathematics formula in 
HTML? What about commutative graph?  You probably want to be careful 
what are you writing since this is the public mailing list.


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> Why say these things :(
>
>>  Many technical publishers
>> have already made the transition.  See, for example, the following link
>> from Cambridge University Press
>>
Many people in mathematics and physics believe that publishers
like Cambridge University Press should not exist anymore. The future is 
in open publishing since the current pricing practices of
so called "publishers" are preventing spread of knowledge and 
communication among professionals. I can bet my life that there are no 
more then three people left in Cambridge University Press that have a 
clue about calligraphy. That doesn't not prevent them
of pricing over $200 the already typed and publishing ready (thanks to 
the TeX) books.  Do not say anything about royalties and the price of 
printing. Royalties for book priced around $200 are no more than $5. The 
printing is probably a $1. Guess what. The books are sent in the 
electronic format to the cheapest printing presses around the world.

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>>  https://authornet.cambridge.org/information/productionguide/stm/XML_workflow.asp#xml_i... 
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>> An interesting alternative project would be to create an HTML and MathML
>> GUI, with the intent of luring mathematicians and physicists away from
>> TeX.  
You are really convinced that the Mathematicians and Physicists are 
bunch of monkey whom you can lure with a peace of banana.
There are many people in science who are very knowledgeable
about calligraphy. Ask M$ and their MathType division how they are doing?

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>> And then create an HTML/MathML to TeX converter, so that they can
>> share their work with colleagues and journals that still insist on TeX.
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> My hate for XML will make this difficult to motivated on.
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> TeX isnt as dead as you think.
He might have heard something about Metafont. Even Metafont is fantastic 
idea unfortunately based on unrealistic expectations of Donald Knuth 
that calligraphers will learn mathematics and how to use parameters to 
create new fonts.

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> Have you for example investigated XMLTeX, LuaTeX, ConTeXt or XeTeX?
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To all those who think that the TeX is dead I dare you to find me a 
single serious mathematics or physics journal on the world which would 
accept anything else except TeX.

There is only one way to kill the TeX. Sit down and throughout rewrite 
Troff code giving it native abilities to process formulas (without 
pre-processor), pictures, and modernize mark up syntax.



To stay on the topic of TeX. Edd you know what would be a nit idea 
(probably little bit challenging).  Get  to  pure  TeX  code and 
add picture processing capabilities or try to mess with Troff code
and see if it can be rewritten so that it remains small compiler (TeX is 
interpreter as you know) but with the mark up syntax which resembles 
Latex or ConTeXt

Best,
Predrag