X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1239" "Thu" "26" "June" "1997" "16:08:13" "+0200" "Chris Rowley" "C.A.Rowley@OPEN.AC.UK" nil "41" "Re: on LaTeX, e-TeX, NTS & Omega projects (2/2)" "^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 QAA26701; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 16:10:40 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <15.F3C819BF@listserv.gmd.de>; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 16:10:39 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 159795 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 16:10:35 +0200 Received: from ixgate02.dfnrelay.d400.de (ixgate02.dfnrelay.d400.de [193.174.248.2]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.7.6/8.7.4) with ESMTP id QAA24020 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 16:10:22 +0200 (MET DST) X400-Received: by mta d400relay in /PRMD=dfnrelay/ADMD=d400/C=de/; Relayed; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 16:08:39 +0200 X400-Received: by mta venus in /PRMD=uk.ac/ADMD= /C=gb/; Relayed; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 16:07:59 +0200 X400-Received: by mta fell.open.ac.uk in /PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/; Relayed; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 16:06:45 +0200 X400-Received: by mta UK.AC.MHS-RELAY.SUN2 in /PRMD=uk.ac/ADMD= /C=gb/; Relayed; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 16:08:13 +0200 X400-Originator: C.A.Rowley@open.ac.uk X400-Recipients: non-disclosure:; X400-MTS-Identifier: [/PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/;<199706261406.PAA03171@fell.open] X400-Content-Type: P2-1988 (22) Content-Identifier: Re: on LaTeX,... Alternate-Recipient: Allowed References: <199706231925.VAA00389@frank.zdv.uni-mainz.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: <199706261406.PAA03171@fell.open.ac.uk> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <199706231925.VAA00389@frank.zdv.uni-mainz.de> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 16:08:13 +0200 From: Chris Rowley Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: on LaTeX, e-TeX, NTS & Omega projects (2/2) Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2215 Frank Mittelbach wrote -- > > Are there still features missing that you would like to see (other than > > 16/32-bit/Unicode/OTPs/etc)? > > yes: > > first of all, strip 16/32-bit/Unicode to request for a large enough unique > internal addressing space (which is what is meant and needed) > > second, if you think feel otps are too radical then at least proper > enhancements of multi-lingual interfaces, eg carrying lctables with > the language nodes and what else is necessary in that area. > > third: to make your etc a little more concrete: a decent support page > breaking > > forth: support for grid design, eg research and results into a > different/additional concept of discrete glue that jumps rather > than stretches > > fifths: ... [some of these next ones may be advertised as "comig sonn"?] fifth ...: Dynamic (as needed) sizing for various things: list-memory, names-table, ... I do not know enough about such things to know which others are reasonable. sixth: Reimplement the handling of certain nodes (eg writes) so that they do not affect the typesetting of text at all, but just indicate positions in the internal lists. seventh: Extend kerning to work across spaces. eight{}ths: ... chris