X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1133" "Thu" "11" "September" "1997" "12:29:08" "-0400" "Mark Steinberger" "mark@CSC.ALBANY.EDU" nil "26" "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 SAA18561; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 18:31:26 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <4.1B5BAF4D@listserv.gmd.de>; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 18:29:30 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 197497 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 18:30:11 +0200 Received: from sarah.albany.edu (sarah.albany.edu [169.226.1.103]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.7.6/8.7.4) with ESMTP id SAA19145 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 18:30:07 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from fenris.math.albany.edu (fenris.math.albany.edu [169.226.23.39]) by sarah.albany.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA13825 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 12:29:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from mark@localhost) by fenris.math.albany.edu (8.8.4/8.8.3) id MAA14306 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 12:29:09 -0400 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Content-Type: text Message-ID: <199709111629.MAA14306@fenris.math.albany.edu> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: from "Hans Aberg" at Sep 10, 97 02:40:58 pm Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 12:29:08 -0400 From: Mark Steinberger 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: 2308 Actually, the hypertex situation is very messy as there are two, incompatible sets of hypertex \specials in use. One set comes from the HyperTeX project, and the other from YandY (a commercial package for the PC, which, as far as I know, is the only PC based system that uses ANY kind of hypertex.) Neither group supports the \specials from the other. A standard for hypertex specials would be EXTREMELY useful, as, currently, there is no way to provide hypertex dvis readable on both unix and PC platforms. Thus, if you want to distribute hyperlinked documents accessible to all, pdf seems the best answer. (Hyperps also exists, and has its advocates.) But standards for either this or for inclusion of graphics are unlikely to come about any time soon. --Mark -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Steinberger | Dept. of Math. & Stat | Nonlinear similarity begins in dimension six. SUNY at Albany | Albany, NY 12222 | mark@csc.albany.edu | http://math.albany.edu:8800/~mark --------------------------------------------------------------------------