X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["681" "Fri" "6" "November" "1998" "19:32:56" "+0100" "Chris Rowley" "C.A.Rowley@OPEN.AC.UK" nil "24" "Re: Mark-up languages" "^Date:" nil nil "11" nil "Mark-up languages" 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 TAA29466; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 19:33:55 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <1.D91EA898@listserv.gmd.de>; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 19:33:52 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 407780 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 19:33:08 +0100 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 TAA09083 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 19:33:05 +0100 (MET) X400-Received: by mta d400relay in /PRMD=dfnrelay/ADMD=d400/C=de/; Relayed; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 19:33:00 +0100 X400-Received: by mta venus in /PRMD=uk.ac/ADMD= /C=gb/; Relayed; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 19:32:51 +0100 X400-Received: by mta fell.open.ac.uk in /PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/; Relayed; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 19:32:30 +0100 X400-Received: by mta open.ac.uk in /PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/; Relayed; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 19:32:29 +0100 X400-Received: by mta UK.AC.MHS-RELAY.SUN in /PRMD=uk.ac/ADMD= /C=gb/; Relayed; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 19:32:56 +0100 X400-Originator: C.A.Rowley@open.ac.uk X400-Recipients: non-disclosure:; X400-MTS-Identifier: [/PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/;<13891.16156.398988.272335@fell.] X400-Content-Type: P2-1988 (22) Content-Identifier: Re: Mark-up l... Alternate-Recipient: Allowed References: <13891.14075.629675.797638@fell.open.ac.uk> 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: <13891.16156.398988.272335@fell.open.ac.uk> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <199811061823.NAA14221@fenris.math.albany.edu> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 19:32:56 +0100 From: Chris Rowley Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: Mark-up languages Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2754 Mark Steinberger wrote -- > It's important to be able to write in a language that > > 1. has macros > I am probably misunderstanding horribly but it seems that this is the major thing you want. Standard TeX notation may or may not be an excellent language for this purpose but I am sure that using LaTeX simply to do the macro expansion is not a good idea. > 2. conveys the semantic information needed for the target language. After expansion of the macros, I assume? > > Latex itself falls short of 2, but comes closer than anything else I > know. Do you know a better alternative? What typically is the "target labgauge"; and what might it be in the future? chris