X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["727" "Tue" "10" "November" "1998" "23:55:58" "+0100" "Chris Rowley" "C.A.Rowley@OPEN.AC.UK" nil "22" "Re: What is \"base\" LaTeX" "^Date:" nil nil "11" nil "What is \"base\" 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 AAA14422; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 00:05:19 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <1.6D7AA5F8@listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 0:05:17 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 407029 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 00:00:34 +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 XAA23893 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 23:56:12 +0100 (MET) X400-Received: by mta d400relay in /PRMD=dfnrelay/ADMD=d400/C=de/; Relayed; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 23:56:06 +0100 X400-Received: by mta venus in /PRMD=uk.ac/ADMD= /C=gb/; Relayed; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 23:55:48 +0100 X400-Received: by mta fell.open.ac.uk in /PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/; Relayed; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 23:55:22 +0100 X400-Received: by mta UK.AC.MHS-RELAY.SUN2 in /PRMD=uk.ac/ADMD= /C=gb/; Relayed; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 23:55:58 +0100 X400-Originator: C.A.Rowley@open.ac.uk X400-Recipients: non-disclosure:; X400-MTS-Identifier: [/PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/;<13896.50111.843267.752713@fell.] X400-Content-Type: P2-1988 (22) Content-Identifier: Re: What is (... Alternate-Recipient: Allowed References: <199811101656.QAA29932@nag.co.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: <13896.50111.843267.752713@fell.open.ac.uk> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 23:55:58 +0100 From: Chris Rowley Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: What is "base" LaTeX Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2837 Robin Fairbairns wrote -- > there were plans, once upon a time, remember. that's why there's > `supported' and `other'. plans for what? As I recall, that division was made as it is one that the ctan maintainers could manage ... it was not much to do with what anyone thought was more (or less) useful. > but what with writers of high-quality stuff (such as donald arseneau) > going for other/misc for most submissions, and the fact that pretty > much anything goes to supported unless the author claims he really > doesn't want it, the distinction has rather faded. I had not realised that it was breaking down in such amazing ways! But I sympathise with Donald not wanting to claim any support for his stuff:-)! chris