MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
References: <4.1.19981127083748.00a473d0@pop.tiac.net>
            <E0zjODE-0000ya-00@heaton.cl.cam.ac.uk>
Message-ID:  <13918.45409.395265.753693@srahtz>
Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project
              <LATEX-L@URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
In-Reply-To:  <E0zjODE-0000ya-00@heaton.cl.cam.ac.uk>
Date:         Fri, 27 Nov 1998 14:04:17 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@ELSEVIER.CO.UK>
Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project
              <LATEX-L@URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L
              <LATEX-L@URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject:      Re: What is "base" LaTeX
Status: R

Robin Fairbairns writes:
 > i've today been told that "converting whole documents to pdf is
 > entirely the wrong idea".
do they think Pinochet should be sent home too?

 > the imaging model is fine; there are those who don't think the
 > hypertextual model is good enough, it seems.  who am i to gainsay
 > them?  (i haven't been a `mathematician' since 1967, so i hardly

i'm slightly bemused to hear that mathematicians now require special
_hypertext_ as well as everything else. but I'd point out that a link
embedded in a PDF document should be able to be expressed in XPointer
syntax perfectly well, which helps a little. I'd agree that internally
the PDF model is simplistic - but then who *has* implemented anything
better in mainstream software?

sebastian