X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["469" "Sat" "21" "December" "1996" "13:07:38" "+0100" "Hans Aberg" "haberg@matematik.su.se" nil "13" "Multiple pass LaTeX3" "^Date:" nil nil "12" nil "Multiple pass LaTeX3" nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id NAA04449; Sat, 21 Dec 1996 13:07:30 +0100 (MET) Received: from listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <8.6208266E@listserv.gmd.de>; Sat, 21 Dec 1996 13:07:29 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 8734 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Sat, 21 Dec 1996 13:07:15 +0100 Received: from mail.nada.kth.se (root@mail.nada.kth.se [130.237.222.92]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.7.6/8.7.4) with SMTP id NAA19029 for ; Sat, 21 Dec 1996 13:07:09 +0100 (MET) Received: from [130.237.37.98] (sl72.modempool.kth.se [130.237.37.98]) by mail.nada.kth.se (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id NAA25370 for ; Sat, 21 Dec 1996 13:07:01 +0100 X-Sender: su95-hab@mail.nada.kth.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 13:07:38 +0100 From: Hans Aberg Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Multiple pass LaTeX3 Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1781 Even though TeX is a single pass compiler, multiple passes can be made by reading a file several times. So I suggest one might consider adding this as a feature of LaTeX3: For example, if one wants to automate the LaTeX standard two-pass compile, the environment "document" data would be put in a special file, which is read twice; if this feature is chosen, the first pass could then be done without actual typesetting, making it faster. Etc. Hans Aberg