X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1169" "Thu" "22" "October" "1998" "14:36:39" "+0200" "Chris Rowley" "C.A.Rowley@OPEN.AC.UK" nil "31" "Re: Math environments and Quotes and punctuation" "^Date:" nil nil "10" nil "Math environments and Quotes and punctuation" nil nil nil] nil) X-POP3-Rcpt: schoepf@polly.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE 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 OAA23665; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 14:37:14 +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 <11.EB2AC1EE@listserv.gmd.de>; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 14:37:12 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 403601 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 14:37:07 +0200 Received: from ixgate02.dfnrelay.d400.de (ixgate02.dfnrelay.d400.de [193.174.248.2]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA26760 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 14:37:04 +0200 (MET DST) X400-Received: by mta d400relay in /PRMD=dfnrelay/ADMD=d400/C=de/; Relayed; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 14:36:47 +0200 X400-Received: by mta venus in /PRMD=uk.ac/ADMD= /C=gb/; Relayed; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 14:36:32 +0200 X400-Received: by mta fell.open.ac.uk in /PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/; Relayed; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 14:36:22 +0200 X400-Received: by mta open.ac.uk in /PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/; Relayed; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 14:36:21 +0200 X400-Received: by mta UK.AC.MHS-RELAY.SUN2 in /PRMD=uk.ac/ADMD= /C=gb/; Relayed; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 14:36:39 +0200 X400-Originator: C.A.Rowley@open.ac.uk X400-Recipients: non-disclosure:; X400-MTS-Identifier: [/PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/;<13871.8534.296663.860180@fell.o] X400-Content-Type: P2-1988 (22) Content-Identifier: Re: Math envi... Alternate-Recipient: Allowed References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: VM 6.44 under Emacs 19.34.1 Message-ID: <13871.8534.296663.860180@fell.open.ac.uk> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 14:36:39 +0200 From: Chris Rowley Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: Math environments and Quotes and punctuation Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2699 Hans Aberg wrote on these subjects and asks, for example: > Is this a question that LaTeX3 addresses? > But does LaTeX have any opinions on this? Since LaTeX and LaTeX3 have as yet no recognisable `thinking module' I shall personalise the answers. The LaTeX3 Team (aka They) are very much aware of this type of problem. These have been categorised as falling into (at least) two types: `local logical processing' and `input character stream processing' (some can perhaps be put into either category). We have spent a lot of time on investigating these areas. Becoming now even more personalised, my opinion is that some of the requirements of such processes are best built into `New Standard TeX': ie NST, an acronym I just invented; NST should not to be confused with NTS but should, at present, be confused with e-TeX and/or Omega and/or pdfTeX and/or any other exciting project of which I have not yet heard. Other(s?) (not connected with the LaTeX3 team or any of the above-named projects) are of the opinion that Active TeX can solve all such problems: it would be nice to see a well-documented, freely- available prototype demonstrating this. chris