X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1031" "Fri" "27" "November" "1998" "15:24:42" "+0100" "Hans Aberg" "haberg@MATEMATIK.SU.SE" nil "23" "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 PAA02571; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 15:26:31 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <3.BEA87CB5@listserv.gmd.de>; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 15:26:19 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 411623 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 15:26:12 +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 PAA24602 for ; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 15:25:56 +0100 (MET) Received: from [130.237.37.82] (sl62.modempool.kth.se [130.237.37.82]) by mail0.nada.kth.se (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA19657 for ; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 15:25:42 +0100 (MET) X-Sender: su95-hab@mail.nada.kth.se References: Your message of "Fri, 27 Nov 1998 08:39:22 EST." <4.1.19981127083748.00a473d0@pop.tiac.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 15:24:42 +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: 2950 At 13:45 +0000 1998/11/27, Robin Fairbairns wrote: >pdf isn't, it seems, good enough for mathematicians. at least for one >of them in this university ;-) > >in a thread about putting maths on the web (in an internal newsgroup) >i've today been told that "converting whole documents to pdf is >entirely the wrong idea". > >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 >count...) When I mentioned it, I though wholly on the PDF imaging model, not as a tool for authoring: One should use something with a more advanced parsing than TeX's macro model, and use an imaging model at least as advanced as that of PDF. In other words, PDF is a new DVI, not a new TeX. Hans Aberg * Email: Hans Aberg * Home Page: * AMS member listing: