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> I hate PS files.!!! MS Word is no use to me - firstly because we are a Unix shop, and secondly because it is immensely tedious to do mathematical equations in Word. You can't expect university computer science departments to adopt MS operating systems because the source code isn't available. Also, equipping a hundred research students and 250 undergraduates with PCs and Microsoft Office would cost a lot more money than half a dozen big servers and a lot of X terminals, as we have at present > If you are producing .ps files - why not a .htm file too for easier > dissemination to the PC world? I can and do produce html versions of papers that are mostly text, such as the `Update to the BMA Security Policy'. However, the Euroclipper paper has lots of equations in it, and if I converted it to html it would end up as hundreds of separate files - most of them images of mathematical expressions. > most PC users don't have PostScript printers You wouldn't be able to print this paper on a dot matrix anyway. The fact is that papers on cryptography and computer security are written in latex, converted to postscript, and disseminated that way. This is also the default in the rest of computer science, as well as mathematics and physics. We're not going to change because the current system works, and there's nothing serviceable to change to Ross %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%