X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1250" "Thu" "26" "June" "1997" "10:08:38" "+0100" "Sebastian Rahtz" "s.rahtz@ELSEVIER.CO.UK" nil "27" "Re: what is a latex command" "^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 (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA02966; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 11:09:19 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <15.DA24BEC3@listserv.gmd.de>; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 11:09:17 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 159580 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 11:09:12 +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 LAA08345 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 11:09:07 +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 KAA13529 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 10:05:13 +0100 (BST) Received: from cadair.elsevier.co.uk by snowdon.elsevier.co.uk with SMTP (PP); Thu, 26 Jun 1997 10:09:04 +0100 Received: from knott.elsevier.co.uk (knott.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.165]) by cadair.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA23806 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 10:09:01 +0100 (BST) Received: (from srahtz@localhost) by knott.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.3/8.8.5) id KAA24440; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 10:08:38 +0100 (BST) References: <199706200736.JAA07288@perdita.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de> <199706202212.AAA03367@frank.zdv.uni-mainz.de> <199706210958.KAA09192@fell.open.ac.uk> <199706251348.OAA22853@knott.elsevier.co.uk> <199706251824.TAA02177@fell.open.ac.uk> Message-ID: <199706260908.KAA24440@knott.elsevier.co.uk> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <199706251824.TAA02177@fell.open.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 10:08:38 +0100 From: Sebastian Rahtz Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: what is a latex command Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2199 > > > http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/raman/raman.html > > not, of course, a full LaTeX interpreter > > Of course?? I defer to your detailed knowledge. I don't think Raman ever claimed to be able to process arbitrary LaTeX; yes, i talked to him about it in 1995 > I think you (and maybe they, but maybe not) misunderstand MathML. One > of the many requirements for the success of MathML is considered (by > its creators, amongst others) to be applications that can parse > "TeX" and turn it into MathML. really? you do surprise me. but thats for legacy purposes, or ongoing input? Elsevier's latex2sgml will do the job just fine for you :-} > It is in the people working on "these projects" that I find the most > acceptance of LaTeX as being an essential part of the foreseeable > future, not as something that will be swept away by *****ML or > ****SSSSSL or any other new language. But they clearly give Sebastian > a different impression. probably because i am at a distance but i just dont see what you imagine will happen for author X. do they continue to author in LaTeX(3)? do they write SGML with embedded constrained TeX for maths? how do you see X working in 3 years? will she really _see_ TeX code? sebastian