X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["477" "Mon" "16" "June" "1997" "12:25:09" "+0100" "Philip Taylor (RHBNC)" "CHAA006@VMS.RHBNC.AC.UK" nil "14" "Re: Multilingual TeX --- and a successor to TeX" "^Date:" nil nil "6" 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 NAA17348; Mon, 16 Jun 1997 13:24:16 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <5.0C931D8D@listserv.gmd.de>; Mon, 16 Jun 1997 13:24:15 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 154047 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 16 Jun 1997 13:24:09 +0200 Received: from vms.rhbnc.ac.uk (alpha1.rhbnc.ac.uk [134.219.201.113]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.7.6/8.7.4) with SMTP id NAA01678 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 1997 13:24:08 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <970616122509.3714@vms.rhbnc.ac.uk> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 12:25:09 +0100 From: "Philip Taylor (RHBNC)" Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: Multilingual TeX --- and a successor to TeX Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2052 Frank wrote: [...] >> Sorry Phil, but as good and nice e-TeX is in parts, the big problems that >> Omega solves aren't touched by it and as long as this is not happening >> it isn't a serious candidate. Can you enumerate which problems Omega solves that e-TeX does not? We are by no means unwilling to consider further changes to e-TeX to render it of greater use to LaTeX users, but unless we are told which features are missing it is not easy to implement them! ** Phil.