X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["287" "Fri" "6" "November" "1998" "20:04:39" "+0100" "Chris Rowley" "C.A.Rowley@OPEN.AC.UK" nil "12" "Re: pattern matching in LaTeX" "^Date:" nil nil "11" nil "pattern matching in LaTeX" 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 UAA00431; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 20:05:06 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <5.345DBBBA@listserv.gmd.de>; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 20:05:03 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 407842 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 20:04:58 +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 UAA11777 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 20:04:54 +0100 (MET) X400-Received: by mta d400relay in /PRMD=dfnrelay/ADMD=d400/C=de/; Relayed; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 20:04:48 +0100 X400-Received: by mta venus in /PRMD=uk.ac/ADMD= /C=gb/; Relayed; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 20:04:33 +0100 X400-Received: by mta fell.open.ac.uk in /PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/; Relayed; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 20:04:10 +0100 X400-Received: by mta UK.AC.MHS-RELAY.SUN in /PRMD=uk.ac/ADMD= /C=gb/; Relayed; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 20:04:39 +0100 X400-Originator: C.A.Rowley@open.ac.uk X400-Recipients: non-disclosure:; X400-MTS-Identifier: [/PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/;<13891.18187.811499.419988@fell.] X400-Content-Type: P2-1988 (22) Content-Identifier: Re: pattern m... 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: <13891.18187.811499.419988@fell.open.ac.uk> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 20:04:39 +0100 From: Chris Rowley Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: pattern matching in LaTeX Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2758 Hans Aberg wrote -- > A rather major undertaking. :-) True, but I hope the :-) does not imply that it is laughable to attempt it, given suitable resources. It seems to me to be an important part of what needs to be done in order to produce a good document processing system. chris