X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["492" "Wed" "18" "June" "1997" "13:02:43" "+0100" "Sebastian Rahtz" "s.rahtz@ELSEVIER.CO.UK" nil "12" "Re: Multilingual TeX" "^Date:" nil nil "6" nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from VZDMZY.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE (vzdmzy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.178.25]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.5/8.8.4) with ESMTP id PAA11809; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 15:57:06 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from DIRECTORY-DAEMON by MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE (PMDF V5.0-4 #22141) id <01IK7YNBMLLCH8JZJR@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE>; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 14:16:07 +0100 Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de) by MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE (PMDF V5.0-4 #22141) id <01IK7YBRQHZ4H640C9@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE>; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 14:06:48 +0100 Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <4.C9BADC00@listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 14:02:57 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 155245 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 14:02:50 +0200 Received: from pillar.elsevier.co.uk (root@pillar.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.35]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.7.6/8.7.4) with ESMTP id OAA19767 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 14:02:36 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from snowdon.elsevier.co.uk (snowdon.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.164]) by pillar.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA01270 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 12:58:40 +0100 (BST) Received: from cadair.elsevier.co.uk by snowdon.elsevier.co.uk with SMTP (PP) ; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 13:02:49 +0100 Received: from lochnagarn.elsevier.co.uk (lochnagarn.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.216.1]) by cadair.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA17627 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 13:02:46 +0100 (BST) Received: (from srahtz@localhost) by lochnagarn.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA14181; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 13:02:43 +0100 (BST) In-reply-to: <199706181142.MAA05725@fell.open.ac.uk> Reply-to: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Message-id: <199706181202.NAA14181@lochnagarn.elsevier.co.uk> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <199706171413.PAA24062@lochnagarn.elsevier.co.uk> <199706181142.MAA05725@fell.open.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 13:02:43 +0100 From: Sebastian Rahtz 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: 2097 > Yes, TeX itself: it was not (maybe I had better say "not only" to stop > being lynched) a labour of love by a heroic individual but a very > well-funded and staffed major resaerch programme (sic). > So, it was funded by research money. Thats not what *I* mean by `sponsorship'. I was referring to people putting money into work because they want to use the result. People like the NSF didnt give Knuth cash because they wanted to use TeX.... Did the AMS pay for any of TeX? Sebastian