X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["960" "Wed" "25" "November" "1998" "16:17:53" "+0100" "Hans Aberg" "haberg@MATEMATIK.SU.SE" nil "21" "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 QAA08807; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 16:18:23 +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.AF7129DF@listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 16:18:22 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 411131 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 16:18:15 +0100 Received: from mail0.nada.kth.se (mail0.nada.kth.se [130.237.222.70]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA22775 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 16:17:54 +0100 (MET) Received: from [130.237.37.70] (sl65.modempool.kth.se [130.237.37.91]) by mail0.nada.kth.se (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA15586 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 16:17:49 +0100 (MET) X-Sender: su95-hab@mail.nada.kth.se References: <365A9F55.88C46733@na.uni-tuebingen.de> <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: Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981125083751.024e3730@tiac.net> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 16:17:53 +0100 From: Hans Aberg 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: 2917 At 08:40 -0500 1998/11/25, Y&Y, Inc. wrote: >>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. On the whole, professionals can do better that amateurs: And this also concerns websites and such. So publishing will simply change nature. Hans Aberg * Email: Hans Aberg * Home Page: * AMS member listing: