X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["830" "Wed" "10" "November" "93" "14:00:51" "EST" "Werenfried Spit" "SPIT@VM.CI.UV.ES" nil "16" "Re: all-purpose files & suffixes" "^Date:" nil nil "11"]) Return-Path: Received: from sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (mailserv) by dagobert.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0/24.6.93) id AA11114; Wed, 10 Nov 93 16:01:37 +0100 Received: from vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (vm.hd-net.uni-heidelberg.de) by sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0-sc/03.06.93) id AA14792; Wed, 10 Nov 93 16:01:34 +0100 Message-Id: <9311101501.AA14792@sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE> Received: from DHDURZ1 by vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 5880; Wed, 10 Nov 93 15:19:27 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 8417; Wed, 10 Nov 93 15:19:16 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 8415; Wed, 10 Nov 93 15:19:12 CET Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: Message of 09 Nov 1993 18:26:54 +0000 from Date: Wed, 10 Nov 93 14:00:51 EST From: Werenfried Spit Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple Recipients of Subject: Re: all-purpose files & suffixes Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1143 On 09 Nov 1993 18:26:54 +0000 Paul Taylor said: > >While we're here, I suggest it's about time we distinguished between >"options" (eg A4, Times) and "features" (diagrams, pictex, ...). >An "option" is something that can be altered without making LaTeX fall >over on the document. Rather than worry too much at this stage about Hear, hear. I'd like to second this. I think it would not be a real problem if options and features used the same filenamesuffix, but a different calling sequence would be in order. This would make things so much clearer, and therefore so much easier to explain to people. ------------------------------------------------ Werenfried Spit email: spit@vm.ci.uv.es tel: +34-6-386 4550 Dep. de Fisica Teorica, Universitat de Valencia