To what extent do the non-technical masses spend a lot of time writing formulas? That seems to be a big gating factor on the audience for this. Is there an un

To what extent do the non-technical masses spend a lot of time writing formulas? That seems to be a big gating factor on the audience for this. Is there an unmet need (other than formulas) that is solved by writing documents in latex? obviously, a lot of the tags in HTML 1.x/2.x are derivedish from LaTeX so this has worked out well for at least one person previously. On the other hand, as Yan points out, DEK and company are smart people who have given this a lot of thought.