X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1129" "Fri" "27" "November" "1998" "16:10:57" "+0100" "Hans Aberg" "haberg@MATEMATIK.SU.SE" nil "24" "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 QAA14618; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 16:11:43 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <6.11C200FB@listserv.gmd.de>; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 16:11:35 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 411702 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 16:11:28 +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 QAA28943 for ; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 16:11:22 +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 QAA24438 for ; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 16:11:15 +0100 (MET) X-Sender: su95-hab@mail.nada.kth.se References: <13918.45409.395265.753693@srahtz> <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: <4.1.19981127095613.03e148a0@pop.tiac.net> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 16:10:57 +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: 2959 At 09:59 -0500 1998/11/27, Y&Y, Inc. wrote: >>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. > >Which is fine. Do you want people to easily edit and change your papers >and pass around modified copies? This is a discussion conducted at various places, for example the XXX eprint archive , where people want to submit in non-TeX formats just in order to prevent others doing such modifications: But with a highly structured format, is in fact easier to see who stole what. So, in fact, those issues on how to protect the originator is rather independent of this other aspect, developing more highly structured formats: One can use several different techniques of protecting the originator, depending of what is suitable in each case. Hans Aberg * Email: Hans Aberg * Home Page: * AMS member listing: