- From: Robert Miner <RobertM@mathtype.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 21:22:59 -0500
- To: elharo@metalab.unc.edu
- CC: BruceV@mathtype.com, www-math@w3.org
Hi. > Now how do you know that? It sounds to me like a figure plucked out > of thin air. Certainly it's decidedly untrue for all the scientific > and technical documents I deal with. It wasn't plucked out of thin air. It is based on surveys of STM publishers (science, technical, medical) and other market data. Since that figure is rather important to us, you can imagine we have invested some effort in determining it. But your larger point is certainly correct -- it depends on what you call "technical documents". If you mean mathematics research articles, you are correct. But if you focus on, say engineering books, articles and documents, Word is more prominent than TeX, and engineers produce many more documents. Similarly, if you allow documents created by math teachers, then the category where the most documentsa re produced is K-12 by a huge margin, and there Word is by far the most common format, HTML is a distant second, and TeX and PDF doen't even merit a mention, to borrow your diction. --Robert ---------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Miner email: RobertM@mathtype.com Design Science, Inc. phone: 651-223-2883 http://www.webeq.com http://www.mathtype.com ----------------------------------------------------------------
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