X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1587" "Wed" "11" "November" "1998" "12:10:51" "-0600" "Randolph J. Herber" "herber@DCDRJH.FNAL.GOV" nil "35" "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 TAA19632; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 19:10:59 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <7.7A0D53BB@listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 19:10:58 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 408059 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 19:10:54 +0100 Received: from dcdrjh.fnal.gov (dcdrjh.fnal.gov [131.225.103.66]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA04189 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 19:10:52 +0100 (MET) Received: (from herber@localhost) by dcdrjh.fnal.gov (8.9.0/8.9.0) id MAA10158; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 12:10:51 -0600 (CST) References: <98111018050396@man.ac.uk> Message-ID: <199811111810.MAA10158@dcdrjh.fnal.gov> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 12:10:51 -0600 From: "Randolph J. Herber" 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: 2868 The following header lines retained to affect attribution: |Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 17:08:21 +0000 |Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project |From: Timothy Murphy |Subject: Re: What is "base" LaTeX |To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L |On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 06:05:04PM +0000, Phillip Helbig wrote: |> The casual user suffers if a colleague uses some non-core stuff which is |> not at his installation. The only solution is a canonical installation |> which includes almost everything. |I must say I would prefer the exact opposite -- |a system where one could automatically retrieve anything needed -- |fonts or packages -- over the net. |I mean a TeX system which regarded the CTANs as part of the system, |so kpathsea (or whatever) looked first on the local system, |and then further afield if necessary. |Timothy Murphy |e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie |tel: +353-1-2842366 |s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland Deliberately overstating my response for effect: if I ever detect LaTeX doing that without obtaining my approval first or without stating exactly from where it is obtaining the material, that is end of that version of LaTeX on any of my systems. That is one of my major objections to WWW browsers. Randolph J. Herber, herber@dcdrjh.fnal.gov, +1 630 840 2966, CD/CDFTF PK-149F, Mail Stop 318, Fermilab, Kirk & Pine Rds., PO Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510-0500, USA. (Speaking for myself and not for US, US DOE, FNAL nor URA.) (Product, trade, or service marks herein belong to their respective owners.)