X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["486" "Fri" "20" "June" "1997" "18:49:09" "+0200" "Hans Aberg" "haberg@MATEMATIK.SU.SE" nil "10" "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 SAA07452; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 18:53:00 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <4.5EC47650@listserv.gmd.de>; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 18:51:05 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 156897 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 18:47:58 +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 SAA16338 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 18:47:52 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from [130.237.37.51] (sl31.modempool.kth.se [130.237.37.51]) by mail.nada.kth.se (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id SAA12797 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 18:47:51 +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: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 18:49:09 +0200 From: Hans Aberg 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: 2145 >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. Whatever. The main point is probably getting integration with other electronic media. Perhaps Display PostScript can come along too, now that Apple is buying NeXT; their stuff is supposed to run on Wondows NT, too. Hans Aberg