{Why \TeX\ is more relevant now than ever}
{Kaveh Bazargan}
{\TeX\ is around 30 years old, and was conceived and written before the
advent of laser printers, personal computers, PostScript and of course
the Internet. At that time the idea of \WYSIWYG\ document editing was
just a futuristic idea. When people jumped on the \WYSIWYG\ bandwagon,
it was predicted that old technologies such as \TeX\ which used mark-up
for text would disappear in time. The advent of the Internet brought
mark-up to the attention of the public. Somehow it was acceptable
again. The recent move to the semantic web and \HTML5 has brought
renewed attention to mark-up and the need for clear structure in text.
I suggest that we have gone full circle and now realise that mark-up
is everything. And \TeX, which has the most readable and minimalist
mark-up might just be the best tool today for structured
documentation.
}