X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil t nil] ["692" "Fri" "11" "February" "1994" "09:00:47" "LCL" "Mike Piff" "M.Piff@sheffield.ac.uk" "<199402110917.AA17066@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de>" "13" "Re: On compatibility in LaTeX2e [was: Re: keyed options lis" "^Date:" nil nil "2" "1994021109:00:47" "On compatibility in LaTeX2e [was: Re: keyed options lis" nil nil]) Return-Path: Received: from sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (mailserv) by dagobert.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0/24.6.93) id AA20019; Fri, 11 Feb 94 10:18:07 +0100 Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de by sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0-sc/03.06.93) id AA06548; Fri, 11 Feb 94 10:17:09 +0100 Received: from tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de with SMTP id AA17066 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4(mail.m4[1.12]) for <@MAIL.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE:Schoepf@SC.ZIB-BERLIN.DE>); Fri, 11 Feb 1994 10:17:04 +0100 Message-Id: <199402110917.AA17066@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de> Received: from TUBVM.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE by tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 1569; Fri, 11 Feb 94 10:16:52 +0200 Received: from VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (NJE origin MAILER@DHDURZ1) by TUBVM.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 1567; Fri, 11 Feb 1994 10:16:52 +0200 Received: from VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (NJE origin LISTSERV@DHDURZ1) by VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 2836; Fri, 11 Feb 1994 10:16:22 +0000 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 09:00:47 LCL From: Mike Piff Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: On compatibility in LaTeX2e [was: Re: keyed options lis Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1533 From: Sebastian Rahtz %>its a question of avoiding anti-social behaviour, no more, no less. %>its been obvious to me since 1985 what the unwritten rules for LaTeX %>are, and I would no more write a user-level macro for a LaTeX package that used %>~M as a delimiter for end of argument that I would light a bonfire on Is this supposed to be a sly dig at verbatim.sty?:-) Mike %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% Dr M J Piff, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of %% %% Sheffield, UK. e-mail: M.Piff@sheffield.ac.uk %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%