X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["996" "Mon" "6" "October" "1997" "12:14:00" "+0200" "Hans Aberg" "haberg@MATEMATIK.SU.SE" nil "22" "Re: LaTeX journal and publisher macros" "^Date:" nil nil "10" 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 MAA19759; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 12:15:04 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <10.EFB8CCB9@listserv.gmd.de>; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 12:15:02 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 208725 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 12:14:55 +0200 Received: from mail.nada.kth.se (root@mail.nada.kth.se [130.237.222.92]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA13967 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 12:14:53 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from [130.237.37.113] (sl87.modempool.kth.se [130.237.37.113]) by mail.nada.kth.se (8.8.7/8.8.4) with ESMTP id MAA20193 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 12:14:47 +0200 (MET DST) X-Sender: su95-hab@mail.nada.kth.se References: <97100208475917@multivac.jb.man.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <199710060750.JAA05354@perdita.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de> Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 12:14:00 +0200 From: Hans Aberg Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: LaTeX journal and publisher macros Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2347 >David writes: > > > All the files in the latex distribution are checked for the 72 > > character limit as part of the Makefile that makes up the > > distribution. > >Last year I changed it to check for 80 characters per line. I'm not >going to support mail gateways that cut at 72. If the email gateway cuts at 72, then you are out at luck even if you use MIME, which splits and reassembles lines longer than 76. But I do not think the mail system should be any concern for the line length in LaTeX anymore, since you can use MIME, and if you have many files, these could be sent as an uuencoded .tgz (tar-red and gzip-ped) file attachment, which looks to be some kind of emerging de facto standard for interplatform distributions. If the lines are too long (more than 70-90 characters), then they become hard to read; this should be the concern. Hans Aberg * AMS member: Listing * Email: Hans Aberg