X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1147" "Fri" "27" "November" "1998" "15:34:49" "+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 PAA07900; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 15:42:11 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <15.F5B711A3@listserv.gmd.de>; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 15:42:10 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 411629 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 15:42:03 +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 PAA25875 for ; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 15:41:30 +0100 (MET) Received: from [130.237.37.82] (sl56.modempool.kth.se [130.237.37.76]) by mail0.nada.kth.se (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA21264 for ; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 15:41:24 +0100 (MET) X-Sender: su95-hab@mail.nada.kth.se References: <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: <13918.45409.395265.753693@srahtz> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 15:34:49 +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: 2952 At 14:04 +0000 1998/11/27, Sebastian Rahtz wrote: >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? It depends on what one wants to do -- if one merely wants to display a document, then a format like PDF might be OK. But as soon something becomes electronic, there are a lot of other things one wants to do: Reuse the information in various way. Then in a PDF format, that information is lost. So all points to that formats like PDF are great as new DVI formats, but is wholly unsuitable to lead the way into the future with respect to all the other things one want to do with a computer. Hans Aberg * Email: Hans Aberg * Home Page: * AMS member listing: