X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1582" "Fri" "10" "October" "1997" "02:48:45" "+0200" "Hans Aberg" "haberg@MATEMATIK.SU.SE" nil "29" "Re: LaTeX & email (Was: 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 LAA19386; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 11:04:31 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <5.BE5C7806@listserv.gmd.de>; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 11:04:29 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 211743 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 11:04:24 +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 LAA20573 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 11:03:30 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from [130.237.37.145] (sl119.modempool.kth.se [130.237.37.145]) by mail.nada.kth.se (8.8.7/8.8.4) with ESMTP id LAA21758 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 11:03:29 +0200 (MET DST) X-Sender: su95-hab@mail.nada.kth.se (Unverified) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 02:48:45 +0200 From: Hans Aberg Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: LaTeX & email (Was: LaTeX journal and publisher macros) Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2430 >I mentioned wrapping to 72 characters in the previous thread, which I >started and which is indicated by the change in title. Line length in >the files of the LaTeX distribution (which also shouldn't be too long) >wasn't MY original topic at all. There are two topic discussed here, the file distribution limit, and the LaTeX in emails: I think they have been somewhat interrelated in the past, because people would submit LaTeX code in emails, which then could be corrupted along the way. The best way to avoid that is to use the new encoding schemes MIME and file attachments, which are designed so such corruption should not happen. Phillip Helbig mentions the email problem specifically when reading quotes in email: Even though it is possible to avoid it hard wrapping of email text, most emailers do it, because there may be email readers that cannot handle it well otherwise. But it is not necessary to do it: With styled text, quotes are enclosed with an environment ... , in my email reader displayed with a bar at the left hand side of the quote. So quotes can be formatted and quoted as many times as you please. And emailers that can read such email are for free, at least on Mac's and PC's, so there is not much reason to not upgrade. (I mean, if there are advanced, expensive computers that cannot do the simple things that all the inexpensive computers can do, why should we all others bother?) Hans Aberg * AMS member: Listing * Email: Hans Aberg