HANS HAGEN
Pragma ADE, GH Hasselt, The Netherlands
pragma@wxs.nl
Abstract: If there is one thing that the 2001 Space Odyssey movie has
demonstrated, it probably is that even on a relatively
short timespan predictions are hard to make. In spite of
much research, some predictions have turned out the
opposite while other developments were not forseen. When
Knuth wrote TEX, one of his assumptions was that in 100
years from their incarnation, people should still be able
to reproduce his books from the sources. Can we look that
far ahead when it comes to typesetting? What will happen in
the (near) future with publishing? Is there a pattern in
today's developments? Will all typographic problems be
solved? In this talk I will try to reflect on these issues
from the perspective of todays TEX based publishing.