In my (rather limited, I admit) experience, most math people at my school (Berkeley) use LaTeX because one can easily download self-installing executables for LaTeX. Although Macintoshes tend to enjoy more popularity, most (at least to my knowledge) students and professors don't seem all that interested in computers and don't want the trouble of setting up Fink.
I've also heard a lot of criticism directed at LaTeX (inconsistent syntax, unhelpful user manuals, bad interface for composition, etc). On Jan 11, 2008 11:01 AM, Henri Lesourd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Amir Michail wrote: > > >And see point #1 here (provides evidence of peer pressure): > > > > > > > Yes, yes, there is peer pressure. > > But as I said, it's not a major barrier to adoption > of TeXmacs, it's a major barrier to adoption *as a > replacement for LaTeX*. > > But TeXmacs is very much used, and a big part > of its use (more than 50%, I would say) is on > its own, for the pure sake of writing documents, > not for generating LaTeX. > > > On the other hand, part of the criticism of > the guy is understandable, especially : > > a. There is no complete emulation of LaTeX > inside TeXmacs (although nobody really > has time to implement that : but for > heavy LaTeX users, it is a problem) ; > > b. The TeXmacs markup is not very well > editable in simple editors like emacs, > it looks much more like XML. > > Although... of course you can export > your document to LaTeX, work on it > in emacs, and reimport it later in > TeXmacs, it works perfectly. But people > are perhaps not sufficiently informed > about this ; > > c. Remains the non-availability of the LaTeX > styles problem, but this one will solve > itself with time, I guess... > > > _______________________________________________ > Texmacs-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev >
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