X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["520" "Tue" "10" "November" "1998" "15:30:45" "GMT" "David Carlisle" "davidc@NAG.CO.UK" nil "16" "Re: frontmatter was: What is \"base\" LaTeX" "^Date:" nil nil "11" 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 QAA13788; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 16:31:13 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <8.FDD10DD2@listserv.gmd.de>; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 16:31:11 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 407773 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 16:31:06 +0100 Received: from nag.co.uk (openmath.nag.co.uk [192.156.217.16]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA16823 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 16:31:04 +0100 (MET) Received: (from davidc@localhost) by nag.co.uk (AIX4.2/UCB 8.7/8.7) id PAA16736; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:30:45 GMT References: <98111014073073@man.ac.uk> <199811101428.OAA07064@lurgmhor.elsevier.co.uk> <199811101441.OAA29688@nag.co.uk> <199811101507.PAA07188@lurgmhor.elsevier.co.uk> Message-ID: <199811101530.PAA16736@nag.co.uk> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <199811101507.PAA07188@lurgmhor.elsevier.co.uk> (message from Sebastian Rahtz on Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:07:49 GMT) Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:30:45 GMT From: David Carlisle Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: frontmatter was: What is "base" LaTeX Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2816 > good. but you would then agree that a BibTeX set of key=value things > would not cope with this It doesn't naturally fit that model, but then I not sure it naturally fits any model. Some of the requirements are just so weird that it can't be helped that the input syntax is rather contorted. It doesn't currently use a key value syntax. > i hope this "superscript index" is in a fit state to be turned into a > hyperlink? er yes, it uses some package that goes by the name of hyperref, perhaps you know it? David