X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["775" "Wed" "18" "June" "1997" "16:53:59" "+0100" "Sebastian Rahtz" "s.rahtz@ELSEVIER.CO.UK" nil "20" "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 RAA22264; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 17:54:07 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <9.0E695BFB@listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 17:53:56 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 155434 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 17:53:39 +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 RAA29792 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 17:53:35 +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 QAA10694 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 16:49:59 +0100 (BST) Received: from cadair.elsevier.co.uk by snowdon.elsevier.co.uk with SMTP (PP); Wed, 18 Jun 1997 16:54:12 +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 QAA18676 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 16:54:04 +0100 (BST) Received: (from srahtz@localhost) by lochnagarn.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA14349; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 16:53:59 +0100 (BST) References: <199706181202.NAA14181@lochnagarn.elsevier.co.uk> <199706181259.NAA21576@lochnagarn.elsevier.co.uk> <199706181518.QAA05994@fell.open.ac.uk> Message-ID: <199706181553.QAA14349@lochnagarn.elsevier.co.uk> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <199706181518.QAA05994@fell.open.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 16:53:59 +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: 2107 Chris Rowley writes: > For Micorosoft it would appear to be a major step towards a more > civilised approach to the world ... except that they maybe see it as > pulling Elsevier into their view of the future? neither. it means they both want to `own' science and sell us back our own work > > but the Microsoft/Elsevier/SGML > > bandwagon is, I would argue, rather more wide-ranging. > > But is it as useful to the research physicists? (I have no idea.) if their stuff gets in there, yes; Science Direct is as good or better than xxx, isnt it? > In what units: are Elsevier prepared to reveal their data on such things? well, we publish (say) 1200 journals, at (say) an average of 50 articles a year, so say 6000 articles a year? 10000? is that a lot? sebastian