X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["846" "Mon" "7" "July" "1997" "20:46:54" "+0200" "Joachim Schrod" "jschrod@ACM.ORG" nil "20" "Re: discussing relation of LaTeX to TeX successors" "^Date:" nil nil "7" 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 VAA24659; Mon, 7 Jul 1997 21:12:06 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <11.E23A2F8B@listserv.gmd.de>; Mon, 7 Jul 1997 21:12:04 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 165259 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 7 Jul 1997 21:11:41 +0200 Received: from beach.frankfurt.netsurf.de (root@beach.frankfurt.netsurf.de [194.64.181.2]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.7.6/8.7.4) with ESMTP id VAA14982 for ; Mon, 7 Jul 1997 21:11:39 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from puma.npc.de (root@deck-63.frankfurt.netsurf.de [194.64.181.95]) by beach.frankfurt.netsurf.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA02795 for ; Mon, 7 Jul 1997 21:11:58 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from schrod@localhost) by puma.npc.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA07937 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 7 Jul 1997 20:46:56 +0200 Received: (from schrod@localhost) by puma.npc.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA07935; Mon, 7 Jul 1997 20:46:54 +0200 References: <970617160600.38c1@vms.rhbnc.ac.uk> <199706200908.LAA02070@frank.zdv.uni-mainz.de> <199706201031.LAA19917@knott.elsevier.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.95) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <199707071846.UAA07935@puma.npc.de> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <199706201031.LAA19917@knott.elsevier.co.uk> Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 20:46:54 +0200 From: Joachim Schrod Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: discussing relation of LaTeX to TeX successors Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2273 >>>>> "SR" == Sebastian Rahtz writes: SR> The point about `easy to install TeX' reminds me of a discussion that SR> went on and off a year or two ago about `what is a decent minuimum SR> setup'. ``a year or two ago''? At EuroTeX in Paris (1991) I organized a panel call `why TeX is unusable' on exactly that topic. We're turning round in circles on these theme since a decade. And it isn't impossible to do. Linux and Perl demonstrate it. The ease of use of CPAN.pm is something to die for in the TeX world! Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Net & Publication Consultance GmbH Tel.: +49-6074-861530 Roedermark, Germany Fax: +49-6074-861531