X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["694" "Wed" "11" "November" "1998" "16:29:52" "+0000" "Timothy Murphy" "tim@MATHS.TCD.IE" nil "21" "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 RAA01641; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 17:30:03 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <5.5FDC90CE@listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 17:30:01 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 407891 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 17:29:54 +0100 Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (mmdf@salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA25440 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 17:29:52 +0100 (MET) Received: from turing.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 11 Nov 98 16:29:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: (from tim@localhost) by turing.maths.tcd.ie (8.8.7/8.8.5) id QAA30625 for LATEX-L@urz.uni-heidelberg.de; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 16:29:52 GMT References: <98110912272255@man.ac.uk> <199811101228.MAA14652@nag.co.uk> <13896.14781.711560.872729@srahtz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i Message-ID: <19981111162952.B30536@maths.tcd.ie> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <13896.14781.711560.872729@srahtz>; from Sebastian Rahtz on Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 01:03:57PM +0000 Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 16:29:52 +0000 From: Timothy Murphy 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: 2857 On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 01:03:57PM +0000, Sebastian Rahtz wrote: > I cannot speak for the others, but i would very much welcome an agreed > "recommended" level of packages above the base level, so that one can > stop saying to people "oh, sorry, you have XXXtex, they dont ship > package ZZZ" I wonder if it would not be possible to lay down a fairly strict protocol governing "acceptable" packages, so that one could automate downloading? At present one actually has to read the README to find out what to do (eg put associated font files in the right place). -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland