X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["425" "Sat" "7" "November" "1998" "15:50:15" "+0100" "Chris Rowley" "C.A.Rowley@OPEN.AC.UK" nil "14" "Re: Quotes and punctuation" "^Date:" nil nil "11" nil "Quotes and punctuation" 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 PAA30745; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 15:50:33 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <0.D075E828@listserv.gmd.de>; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 15:50:32 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 407114 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 15:50:27 +0100 Received: from ixgate01.dfnrelay.d400.de (ixgate01.dfnrelay.d400.de [193.174.248.1]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA14351 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 15:50:26 +0100 (MET) X400-Received: by mta d400relay in /PRMD=dfnrelay/ADMD=d400/C=de/; Relayed; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 15:50:19 +0100 X400-Received: by mta venus in /PRMD=uk.ac/ADMD= /C=gb/; Relayed; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 15:50:12 +0100 X400-Received: by mta fell.open.ac.uk in /PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/; Relayed; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 15:49:50 +0100 X400-Received: by mta open.ac.uk in /PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/; Relayed; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 15:49:49 +0100 X400-Received: by mta UK.AC.MHS-RELAY.SUN2 in /PRMD=uk.ac/ADMD= /C=gb/; Relayed; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 15:50:15 +0100 X400-Originator: C.A.Rowley@open.ac.uk X400-Recipients: non-disclosure:; X400-MTS-Identifier: [/PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/;<13892.23868.527851.686871@fell.] X400-Content-Type: P2-1988 (22) Content-Identifier: Re: Quotes an... Alternate-Recipient: Allowed References: <01J3B26EN3KY00049X@ALPHA.NTP.SPRINGER.DE> 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: <13892.23868.527851.686871@fell.open.ac.uk> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <01J3B26EN3KY00049X@ALPHA.NTP.SPRINGER.DE> Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 15:50:15 +0100 From: Chris Rowley Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: Quotes and punctuation Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2761 Joerg Knappen wrote -- > > Too long commands encourage the authors to come up with their own, incompatible > abbreviations. It makes processing LaTeX documents on a large scale more > difficult. I sympathise with this problem but I do not think that it can or should be solved by allowing LaTeX syntax to be as quirky as Knuth's, thus compromising essential qualities of a sophisticated document formatting system. chris