X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["396" "Tue" "17" "June" "1997" "12:27:51" "+0100" "J%org Knappen, Mainz" "KNAPPEN@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE" nil "13" "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 MAA17538; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 12:59:23 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <4.BC9B80F9@listserv.gmd.de>; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 12:59:21 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 154972 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 12:59:14 +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 MAA09215 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 12:59:13 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE by MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE (PMDF V5.0-4 #22141) id <01IK6GFYKSWGH63WRF@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE> for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 12:27:51 +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: <01IK6GFYKXMAH63WRF@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 12:27:51 +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: 2074 Chris, I was specifically thinking about the e-TeX 1.1 primitives \ifundefined and \protected. Reimplementing \DeclareRobustCommand using \protected would be such a task. Of course, the new \mark features can be exploited by new document classes or packages to the existing classes. And we shouldn't forget, that e-TeX extends TeX--XeT and allows right-to- left typesetting. --J"org Knappen.