X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1018" "Thu" "26" "June" "1997" "12:49:34" "+0100" "Robin Fairbairns" "Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK" nil "25" "Re: ideal future document processing" "^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 NAA32558; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 13:49:51 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <4.47AF98A1@listserv.gmd.de>; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 13:49:50 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 159690 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 13:49:42 +0200 Received: from heaton.cl.cam.ac.uk (exim@heaton.cl.cam.ac.uk [128.232.0.11]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.7.6/8.7.4) with SMTP id NAA16356 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 13:49:37 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from dorceus.cl.cam.ac.uk [128.232.1.34] (rf) by heaton.cl.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.62 #5) id 0whD3P-0000KI-00; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 12:49:35 +0100 Message-ID: Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Jun 1997 12:55:45 +0200." <199706261049.LAA02846@fell.open.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 12:49:34 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: ideal future document processing Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2207 > Sebastian Rahtz wrote -- > > > i have written many articles as an archaeologist and computer > > scientist (mosty of them very bad), and I have (I think) never used a > > mathematical formula. > > Only in the UK could an educated person seriously make such a statement > in public. In more cultured parts of the world it would be like > boasting that you cannot write grammatical sentences. An interesting view. I read it as a statement about the fields of endeavour that Sebastian partakes in (which didn't contain any news for me). I'm a mathematician by training (and first love ;-), but now practice in computer `science'. The mathematics in things that I publish is likewise vanishingly small. I've published nothing (for ages) that wasn't produced using LaTeX. However, I don't believe arguments about whether mathematics is the defining property of a TeX-processed paper get us anywhere. No mathematician (who knows about disproof by counter-example) can seriously make any such claim, surely? Robin