X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["2400" "Mon" "13" "October" "1997" "16:55:20" "+0200" "Hans Aberg" "haberg@MATEMATIK.SU.SE" nil "48" "Re: MILDLY OFF TOPIC (LaTeX & email)" "^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 RAA17555; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 17:00:20 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <12.F054BDB2@listserv.gmd.de>; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 17:00:14 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 213955 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 16:55:27 +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 QAA05595 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 16:55:19 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from [130.237.37.63] (sl61.modempool.kth.se [130.237.37.81]) by mail.nada.kth.se (8.8.7/8.8.4) with ESMTP id QAA27835 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 16:55:18 +0200 (MET DST) X-Sender: su95-hab@mail.nada.kth.se References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <6389-Mon13Oct1997125506+0100-s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 16:55:20 +0200 From: Hans Aberg Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: MILDLY OFF TOPIC (LaTeX & email) Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2448 Sebastian Rahtz : >What is the relationship between GUIs and MIME? I am not an expert on this, but MIME is supposed to rather extensive, allowing not only simple 8-bit encodings, but also for allowing graphics and sounds in emails. Now, people feel that strictly speaking a computer GUI should be interactive, so perhaps this does not qualify. > Of course if his >correspondent sends him a Word file, he'll need to load Word to read >it, but if its a MIME-encoded .tex file, he'll have no problem. One makes the setup automatic by the use of file name extensions: The MIME encoding ensures that the binary files pass through the mail system unaltered. Then I have the setup so that .dvi files are automatically launched to a DVI reader, .pdf files are sent to the PDF reader Acrobat, and so on: The received email has these attachments displayed with small icons; I just activate an icon, and the file is displayed properly in the right program. >Perhaps I am just being smug because I finally got a working mime >setup for gnu emacs and the vm mail reader, after 1000001 tries :-} > >Seems to me that emacs gives you best of all worlds these days; Emacs can handle styled text (if somebody bothers writing a script), so I think there should be possible with Emacs. Styled text is particularly nice with computer code, like C++, Haskell, and so on: Styles are programmed to show up dependant on the syntactic context, comments key words and so on. (But I do not know if there are such TeX/LaTeX styling scripts written. -- If now LaTeX builds on a Pascal syntax, it should be possible to get some nice displays.) On my Mac, function definitions and the like of a file are automatically displayed in a list; click a button, and you jump to that definition. One can click on an URL in the text in any program, and a program that can handle that protocol is automatically selected to act on that URL: In fact, very convenient. > You >can drive everything with keystrokes, explicit commands, menus or >mice. So this is a good example: The GUI version of Emacs is in fact easy to use, without one having to learn all those cryptic key combination, but you can still use command key-strokes for often used operations. Hans Aberg * Email: Hans Aberg * AMS member listing: