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In article <77900017@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:

> I believe a revolution is coming, and troff will be the first against
> the wall (to be sacrificed).

Not that I am a great fan of troff, but NO widely used language ever dies.
Look at COBOL.

> I believe TeX will survive longer because its equation-formatting and
> word-spacing ability is unparalleled.  But it will eventually succomb
> to the WYSWYG revolution, or its equations will be incorporated into a
> WYSWYG editor.

Au contraire.  The ability to incorporate PostScript pictures in TeX or
LaTeX documents, already supported by all (almost all?) versions of dvi2ps,
makes TeX far more powerful than any WYSWYG system.

Set the equations in TeX and then paste them into a WYSWYG document?  
Surely you are joking.  This is a step back to the stone age.

Why don't you just give up and use TeX?

I've done lots of preprints and tech reports full of fancy graphics, all
in TeX.  It's a snap.  The math looks beautiful and the graphics too.