X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["732" "Tue" "7" "July" "1998" "13:07:03" "+0200" "Frank Mittelbach" "fmitte01@EDS.DE" nil "17" "correcting a small misunderstanding" "^Date:" nil nil "7" nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA04625; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 13:07:27 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <13.A6C2B7C8@listserv.gmd.de>; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 13:07:26 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 381241 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 13:07:20 +0200 Received: from gate.eds.de (gate.eds.de [205.191.194.5]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA14048 for ; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 13:07:16 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from nsru2.tse.de.eds.com by gate.eds.de with SMTP id AA11840 (InterLock SMTP Gateway 3.0 for ); Tue, 7 Jul 1998 11:07:06 GMT Received: from ew160061.nets.de.eds.com (ew160061.nets.de.eds.com [134.46.6.36]) by nsru2.tse.de.eds.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA25138 for ; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 11:07:05 GMT Received: from n15ux24.nets.de.eds.com (n15ux24.nets.de.eds.com [206.122.103.15]) by ew160061.nets.de.eds.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA12947 for ; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 06:41:22 GMT Received: by n15ux24.nets.de.eds.com (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA053409623; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 13:07:03 +0200 References: <199807020724.RAA19706@ricetub.anu.edu.au> <199807021940.VAA01123@frank.zdv.uni-mainz.de> <199807060810.SAA24960@ricetub.anu.edu.au> <199807062020.WAA19898@frank.zdv.uni-mainz.de> <199807070755.RAA26108@ricetub.anu.edu.au> Message-ID: <199807070641.GAA12947@ew160061.nets.de.eds.com> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <199807070755.RAA26108@ricetub.anu.edu.au> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 13:07:03 +0200 From: Frank Mittelbach Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: correcting a small misunderstanding Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2656 Richard Walker writes: > > After all a lot of the documentation therein was provided by us during > > the last years before that its internal documentation was very much > > out of date (still is in some parts). > > If you are happy to release out-of-date and inconsistent documentation > for incomplete packages then in fairness to us - your guinea pigs - > _everything_ must be up for grabs. i was talking about the LaTeX2e internal documentation which is 600 odd pages all available and all on CTAN. the fact that some of it is still out of date (or undocumented) i'm sorry, but this is a huge job. and i think essentially we did some good job here even though with more resources we could probably do better. frank