X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["553" "Wed" "25" "November" "1998" "11:37:32" "+0000" "Sebastian Rahtz" "s.rahtz@ELSEVIER.CO.UK" nil "14" "Re: 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 MAA25808; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 12:37:59 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <2.E59EB268@listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 12:37:58 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 410943 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 12:37:54 +0100 Received: from pillar.elsevier.co.uk (root@pillar.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.35]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA29556 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 12:37:50 +0100 (MET) Received: from snowdon.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.164]; by pillar.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP; for ""; sender "s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk"; id LAA05396; hop 0; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 11:29:34 GMT Received: from srahtz (actually host srahtz.elsevier.co.uk) by snowdon.elsevier.co.uk with SMTP (PP); Wed, 25 Nov 1998 11:37:33 +0000 X-Mailer: emacs 20.3.2 (via feedmail 9-beta-3 Q); VM 6.61 under Emacs 20.3.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <199811241746.MAA28717@hilbert.math.albany.edu> Message-ID: <13915.60412.897611.12622@srahtz> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 11:37:32 +0000 From: Sebastian Rahtz 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: 2906 Hans Aberg writes: > between the different media. The WWW browsers will not have HTML quality in > display, but PDF quality, in addition to the other multimedia capacities > that printing on paper odes not have, ability to display sound and moving > graphics, 3D images and so on. indeed. and we are nearly there. for 2 1/2D graphics, Adobe and IBM have demonstrated good implemenations of PGML in browsers, and Microsoft have implemented VML. I would guess these become commodities pretty soon, since its clearly technically possible. sebastian