X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["545" "Fri" "20" "June" "1997" "14:20:40" "+0100" "Philip Taylor (RHBNC)" "CHAA006@VMS.RHBNC.AC.UK" nil "11" "Re: Will e-TeX be used?" "^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 PAA26798; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:19:54 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <6.DB597D7A@listserv.gmd.de>; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:19:49 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 156733 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:19:40 +0200 Received: from vms.rhbnc.ac.uk (alpha1.rhbnc.ac.uk [134.219.201.113]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.7.6/8.7.4) with SMTP id PAA09033 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:19:39 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <970620142040.ce5a@vms.rhbnc.ac.uk> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 14:20:40 +0100 From: "Philip Taylor (RHBNC)" Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: Will e-TeX be used? Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2132 >> This touches on another problem with TeX, namely that it does not >> integrate well with electronic multimedia, which is what people quickly >> switch to these days. The new DVI files would need to be at least more like >> the Adobe PDF files, allowing some sort of interaction. I sincerely hope there won't be "new DVI" files; DVI was fine in its day, but we are now surely at a point where a successor to TeX should output an industry-standard format such as PDF, rather than attempt to define a new quasi-standard of its own. ** Phil.