On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 07:35:21PM -0500, David Neeley wrote: > I had an interesting note from a gentleman who has been using TeX for > about twenty years. He edits and packages books and creates indexes > for them as well as part of his publication services, using TeX every > day in his work. > > He claims that LaTeX is "too confining and verbose"--and uses either > plain TeX or ConTeXt. In fact, he believes that ConTeXt will replace > LaTeX as time passes.
ConTeXt has certainly its merits. However, I personally don't think either will replace the other, rather I think anything TeX based will die a very slow death. [Not because it is unsuitable, but because it won't get 'new cool features', and 'new cool features' is about the only thing most people seem to be interested in nowadays.] Andre'
