X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["434" "Wed" "16" "April" "1997" "15:04:11" "+0100" "Sebastian Rahtz" "s.rahtz@ELSEVIER.CO.UK" nil "11" "Re: Alternatives to LaTeX (Was Some comments...)" "^Date:" nil nil "4" nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.5/8.8.4) with ESMTP id QAA24962; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 16:04:41 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <8.5A6B1211@listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 16:04:40 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 125894 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 16:04:35 +0200 Received: from pillar.elsevier.co.uk (root@pillar.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.35]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.7.6/8.7.4) with ESMTP id QAA29793 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 16:04:32 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from snowdon.elsevier.co.uk (snowdon.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.164]) by pillar.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA28798 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 15:01:53 +0100 (BST) Received: from cadair.elsevier.co.uk by snowdon.elsevier.co.uk with SMTP (PP); Wed, 16 Apr 1997 15:04:23 +0100 Received: from lochnagarn.elsevier.co.uk (lochnagarn.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.216.1]) by cadair.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA08432 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 15:04:16 +0100 (BST) Received: (from srahtz@localhost) by lochnagarn.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA10702; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 15:04:11 +0100 (BST) References: <199704160829.KAA14604@tag.uio.no> <9704161334.AA13659@epsilon.ams.org> Message-ID: <199704161404.PAA10702@lochnagarn.elsevier.co.uk> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <9704161334.AA13659@epsilon.ams.org> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 15:04:11 +0100 From: Sebastian Rahtz Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: Alternatives to LaTeX (Was Some comments...) Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1966 > > a) the ability to typset lines to a grid > > I don't see why this cannot be accomplished by proper settings of the > various vertical space parameters in the documentclass. I.e., I don't > think it is an inherent restriction in LaTeX, it is a decision left up > to the designer/documentclass writer. indeed. I did a book like this once. it was a nightmare, for all the reasons Michael points out Sebastian