Marcin Borkowski <[email protected]> writes: > On 2016-09-08, at 11:46, Tobias Berndt <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Is there already a relevant community, big enough and hence worth to >> spent money developing an AucTeX support for ConTeXt MkIV? I wished >> I could simple say YES, go for it! But, I do not know? I can say, >> community is growing on a smooth level. In my opinion there'll be >> this future: If ConTeXt will be better known, LaTeX will become a >> TeX for private users and ConTeXt will be become the TeX for >> professional usage (universities, scientific corporates, publishing >> firms, technical editing offices and so on. >> >> Will ConTeXt better known in future? Who knows? Since I published >> already a book about LaTeX by Addison-Wesley, maybe I'll write that >> big ConTeXt book, closing the documentation gap and everyone >> switches? Maybe one big publisher discovers ConTeXt and its >> advantages to LaTeX and writes an article about it in the New York >> Times and it gets popular this way? This way or another, ConTeXt >> will increasingly assert itself in the future, I think. But, it >> could also be that ConTeXt go on sleeping his long sleep and never >> will wake up ... > > Given how many people in the maths community still use LaTeX 2.09, which > should have been *dead* for some, I don't know, fifteen years or so - > I seriously doubt that they will switch anytime soon.
The first LaTeX2e release news dates from 1994, 22 years ago. If that feels old, the first AUCTeX version is from 1991. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ auctex mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex
