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The journals <i>Classical Antiquity</i> (for 16 years) and <i>Rhetorica</i>
(for 11 years) have been set in TeX for the University of California
Press.<br>
In addition there have been about 20 monographs, including one in
Arabic, English, Greek and Latin, and the recent translation of
Coarelli's <i>Rome</i>. Almost the entire corpus of the works of
Erasmus is set using TeX. There are numerous Greek studies set using
TeX in Europe, along with others in mediaeval Italian history and
literature. A massive study of surgical instruments found in the
Pompeii excavations was done in TeX and the associated map of Pompeii
(often complimented by derivative imitations) was done using Metafont
in a fairly unusual way. <br>
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I guess this amounts to a sort of humanist specialization, but it is
one in which math mode hardly ever appears. That may be one of the
reasons why, to quote your response: <br>
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<pre wrap="">It is the first time that I encountered a mention of LaTeX in "general"
<span class="moz-txt-citetags"></span>(i. e. non-specialist) press.</pre>
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An associated reason may be the all too general sense that derived
forms of TeX, most specifically LaTeX, are of interest exclusively as
vehicles for the swift production of technical papers, which LaTeX, to
do it justice, seems to be very good at. All the major examples of
humanist publication I am directly aware of avoid LaTeX. We do lots of
non-technical typesetting, but we see so little interest in anything
that is not primarily in math mode that we don't find the occasion to
say much about it.<br>
<br>
Pierre MacKay<br>
<pre wrap="">Humanist Typesetting & Graphics
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.angiolello.net">www.angiolello.net</a>
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