X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["603" "Thu" "26" "November" "1998" "08:29:44" "+0000" "Sebastian Rahtz" "s.rahtz@ELSEVIER.CO.UK" nil "15" "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 KAA30287; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 10:41:58 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <10.DB088967@listserv.gmd.de>; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 10:41:58 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 411284 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 10:41:53 +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 KAA15663 for ; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 10:41:50 +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 JAA06823; hop 0; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 09:33:21 GMT Received: from srahtz (actually host srahtz.elsevier.co.uk) by snowdon.elsevier.co.uk with SMTP (PP); Thu, 26 Nov 1998 09:41:03 +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: <13914.43859.281032.18501@srahtz> <365A9F55.88C46733@na.uni-tuebingen.de> <199811142302.AAA24385@na6.mathematik.uni-tuebingen.de> <13913.60537.514744.407614@srahtz> <13916.96.643934.277862@srahtz> <19981125165741.D8854@maths.tcd.ie> Message-ID: <13917.4472.820603.957391@srahtz> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <19981125165741.D8854@maths.tcd.ie> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 08:29:44 +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: 2930 Timothy Murphy writes: > > Good Guys do not always win, historically [1] > > But surely not in the mathematical arena? oh, _that_ tiny niche market :-} > I just looked at a random selection of 15 new books > on the way to our research library, > and as far as I could see they were all written in TeX/LaTeX. perhaps you'd care to tell us how you can tell, unless they explicitly say so, out of interest? it is, perhaps, an indictment of TeX is it always shows its traces... I'd like to think the books I have typeset using TeX (not mathematical, of course) could *not* be traced back. sebastian