X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1584" "Wed" "10" "September" "1997" "14:40:58" "+0200" "Hans Aberg" "haberg@MATEMATIK.SU.SE" nil "39" "Re: HyperLaTeX" "^Date:" nil nil "9" nil "HyperLaTeX" 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 OAA16254; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 14:40:29 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <0.BC0D28D8@listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 14:38:57 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 196664 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 14:39:46 +0200 Received: from mail.nada.kth.se (root@mail.nada.kth.se [130.237.222.92]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.7.6/8.7.4) with ESMTP id OAA05253 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 14:39:40 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from [130.237.37.138] (sl98.modempool.kth.se [130.237.37.124]) by mail.nada.kth.se (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id OAA25207 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 14:40:13 +0200 (MET DST) X-Sender: su95-hab@mail.nada.kth.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 14:40:58 +0200 From: Hans Aberg Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: HyperLaTeX Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2302 Sebastian Rahtz writes: > > So how does the hypertex protocol work together with other protocols, > > like embedded PS or non-GIF pictures? Does every protocol invent its own > > syntax to identify itself? >there *is* no protocol for embedded PS or non-GIF, so what are you >getting at So it's ok to make a hyperlink around some embedded PS (EPSF) or a non-GIF picture using the standard hypertex, then? > > Well, the HTML standard is evolving, and one would then want to have >oh you think its a `standard'.... My Merriam Webster's dictionary defines the word "standard" as "having qualities or attributes established by custom". Thinking of it, yes, I think it applies to HTML. :-) >sensible people like TeXxies [1] should be plugging XML I think we are now getting to the old moral question of telling other people what they should do; the problem since the dawn of the civilisation has been that other people seem to not bother. How about a more informative comment about XML? :-) > > access to the new hyperlink features, but not the markup features. So one > > would really want to work with a hyperlink protocol, and not HTML. >which is exactly what we have. the fact that the tags start `html' >does not imply that random HTML after them is acceptable. I figure the idea is that an underpaid Philippino worker is extracting the new hyperlink features from HTML... >[1] i am famous for my irony Or infamous. :-) Hans Aberg * AMS member: Listing * Email: Hans Aberg