X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["767" "Sat" "21" "June" "1997" "18:16:28" "+0200" "Soren Sandmann Pedersen" "sandmann@DAIMI.AAU.DK" nil "16" "Re: LaTeX3 goals (was Re: ideal future document processing environment)" "^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 SAA15613; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 18:16:36 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <5.B700074F@listserv.gmd.de>; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 18:16:34 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 157516 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 18:16:31 +0200 Received: from peso.daimi.aau.dk (peso.daimi.aau.dk [130.225.18.239]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.7.6/8.7.4) with ESMTP id SAA02660 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 18:16:29 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from sandmann@localhost) by peso.daimi.aau.dk (8.8.2/8.8.2) id SAA18613 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 18:16:28 +0200 (MET DST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <199706211616.SAA18613@peso.daimi.aau.dk> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <199706211609.SAA00468@localhost> from Ernst Molitor at "Jun 21, 97 06:09:35 pm" Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 18:16:28 +0200 From: Soren Sandmann Pedersen Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: LaTeX3 goals (was Re: ideal future document processing environment) Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2158 > If my experience with to-be LaTeX users were not too atypical, a > strengthening of the separation between content and form of a > document, which would really make LaTeX an even better and stronger > tool, might lessen its attractiveness for those who now use a > commercial text processor, simply because it will probably take even > longer for a (beginning) user of LaTeX (who has used the products > mentioned above before) to really appreciate its advantages. I think many of these users could be conviced if there were a large set of example classes to follow LaTeX3. This way users would not feel so confined by LaTeX, but they would still get a higher quality than with a word processor. Soeren Sandmann -- Soeren Sandmann (e-mail: sandmann@daimi.aau.dk)