X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["453" "Wed" "16" "April" "1997" "20:46:16" "+0200" "Hans Aberg" "haberg@MATEMATIK.SU.SE" 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 UAA10835; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 20:46:27 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <0.B16B63BF@listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 20:46:16 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 126190 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 20:46:11 +0200 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 ESMTP id UAA11944 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 20:46:01 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from [130.237.37.128] (sl83.modempool.kth.se [130.237.37.109]) by mail.nada.kth.se (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id UAA06674 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 20:46:00 +0200 (MET DST) 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: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 20:46:16 +0200 From: Hans Aberg 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: 1975 At 16:36 97-04-16, Frank Mittelbach wrote: >what it proves is that there isn't yet a successor to TeX that people >use to replace TeX on a large scale and as long as this is the case >development for a successor only, doesn't solve problems for them. For this to work, there must be a body that issues TeX upgrades, which are suffiently conservative that the many TeX implementations only need to flip in the new source code, I think. Hans Aberg