X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["321" "Tue" "17" "June" "1997" "09:35:09" "+0100" "J%org Knappen, Mainz" "KNAPPEN@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE" nil "8" "Re: Multilingual 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 JAA21752; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 09:41:14 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <9.0EFAD0FE@listserv.gmd.de>; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 9:41:13 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 154844 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 09:41:09 +0200 Received: from MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE (dzdmzc.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.34]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.7.6/8.7.4) with ESMTP id JAA00560 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 09:40:48 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE by MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE (PMDF V5.0-4 #22141) id <01IK6AEM5F0UH63WP9@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE> for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 09:35:09 +0100 X-VMS-To: IN%"LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE" MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Message-ID: <01IK6AEM5F0GH63WP9@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 09:35:09 +0100 From: "J%org Knappen, Mainz" Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: Multilingual TeX Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2071 Chris, most e-TeX primitives are primitive and should be hidden away from the end user. However, some of them were introduced with LaTeX in mind. A very serious project consists in rewriting and testing parts of the _LaTeX kernel_ in e-TeX. This task probably needs another volunteer team, I am afraid. --J"org Knappen