X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["593" "Wed" "18" "June" "1997" "14:29:37" "+0200" "Chris Rowley" "C.A.Rowley@OPEN.AC.UK" nil "19" "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 PAA12243; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 15:59:30 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from DIRECTORY-DAEMON by MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE (PMDF V5.0-4 #22141) id <01IK7ZDXTJE8H8JZKW@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE>; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 14:37:35 +0100 Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de) by MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE (PMDF V5.0-4 #22141) id <01IK7ZDLUCKWH640IL@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE>; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 14:37:20 +0100 Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <11.659EA369@listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 14:35:57 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 155266 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 14:35:49 +0200 Received: from ixgate01.dfnrelay.d400.de (ixgate01.dfnrelay.d400.de [193.174.248.1]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.7.6/8.7.4) with ESMTP id OAA21270 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 14:35:34 +0200 (MET DST) X400-Received: by mta d400relay in /PRMD=dfnrelay/ADMD=d400/C=de/; Relayed; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 14:29:49 +0200 X400-Received: by mta venus in /PRMD=uk.ac/ADMD= /C=gb/; Relayed; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 14:29:32 +0200 X400-Received: by mta fell.open.ac.uk in /PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/; Relayed; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 14:28:19 +0200 X400-Received: by mta UK.AC.MHS-RELAY.SUN2 in /PRMD=uk.ac/ADMD= /C=gb/; Relayed; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 14:29:37 +0200 Alternate-recipient: Allowed In-reply-to: <199706181202.NAA14181@lochnagarn.elsevier.co.uk> Reply-to: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Message-id: <199706181228.NAA05787@fell.open.ac.uk> Content-identifier: Re: Multiling... MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X400-Content-type: P2-1988 (22) X400-MTS-identifier: [/PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/;<199706181228.NAA05787@fell.open] X400-Originator: C.A.Rowley@open.ac.uk X400-Recipients: non-disclosure:; References: <199706181142.MAA05725@fell.open.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 14:29:37 +0200 From: Chris Rowley 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: 2100 Sebastian Rahtz wrote -- 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.... Agreed: but they are putting megabucks into the xxx archives essentially "because authors want to use TeX and avoid publishers (sepecially Elsevier:-)". > > Did the AMS pay for any of TeX? Yes: I do not know any details about who payed for what; I guess barbara beeton is the "honorary official historian"? chris