X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1131" "Wed" "25" "November" "1998" "08:40:49" "-0500" "Y&Y, Inc." "support@YANDY.COM" nil "24" "Re: What is \"base\" LaTeX" "^Date:" nil nil "11" nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (root@kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.158]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA22474; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 14:49:18 +0100 (MET) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA32036; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 14:42:42 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <6.4FD666D3@listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 14:42:38 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 411040 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 14:41:40 +0100 Received: from life.ai.mit.edu (life.ai.mit.edu [128.52.32.80]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA12886 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 14:41:22 +0100 (MET) Received: from MAUI (maui.ai.mit.edu [128.52.37.105]) by life.ai.mit.edu (8.9.1/AI2.7/ai.master.life:2.2) with SMTP id IAA28229; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 08:41:22 -0500 (EST) X-Sender: yandy@tiac.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 References: <199811142302.AAA24385@na6.mathematik.uni-tuebingen.de> <13913.60537.514744.407614@srahtz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: <4.1.19981125083751.024e3730@tiac.net> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <365A9F55.88C46733@na.uni-tuebingen.de> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 08:40:49 -0500 From: "Y&Y, Inc." 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: 2911 At 12:58 1998-11-24 +0100, Marcel Oliver wrote: >> > XML/MathML may make sense for me in certain circumstances, because I >> > may want to reuse the logical structure, I don't see why this should >> > matter for a publisher whose job it is to get the thing on paper, and >> > possibly into an online repository (PDF?). >> publishers who do not want to consider electronic publication of >> material are, IMHO, on the track to failure. publishers exist to sell >> your work, NOT get things on paper!!! >But paper is the only thing you can do better than I can. I can run >a web-site with no problem and publish my stuff in whatever format I >like. >The only thing I cannot do is printing large quantities of paper >and shipping them to every library in the world. No. You can't review articles. You can't provide easy searching and access to all articles in an area. Etc. There *is* a role for publishers to play. Of course it is true that there have always been `self publishers'. But most people have better things to do with their time. Regards, Berthold. Y&Y, Inc. mailto:support@YandY.com http://www.YandY.com