X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["566" "Tue" "17" "June" "1997" "15:58:49" "+0200" "Hans Aberg" "haberg@MATEMATIK.SU.SE" 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 PAA09620; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 15:59:59 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <14.BC46227D@listserv.gmd.de>; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 15:58:18 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 154716 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 15:57:39 +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 PAA18157 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 15:57:36 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from [130.237.37.152] (sl44.modempool.kth.se [130.237.37.64]) by mail.nada.kth.se (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id PAA05411 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 15:57:34 +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: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 15:58:49 +0200 From: Hans Aberg 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: 2079 J%org Knappen wrote: >The question is, who will do the work? Volunteer work is a limited resource, >even in the TeX world which has many examples of very good software >provided through volunteer work. And maybe, there are other volunteer tasks >which have a higher priority. My guess is that one somehow needs to form a sponsored consortium, like Microsoft sponsors the Unicode Consortium, but for this to work, there is also needed a strategy for the different parts to cooperate. I think that volunteer work alone will not suffice, I am afraid. Hans Aberg