X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["903" "Fri" "27" "November" "1998" "16:27:02" "+0100" "Hans Aberg" "haberg@MATEMATIK.SU.SE" nil "18" "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 QAA15784; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 16:27:22 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <12.4483D48B@listserv.gmd.de>; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 16:27:19 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 411734 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 16:27:06 +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 QAA00274 for ; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 16:27:04 +0100 (MET) Received: from [130.237.37.82] (sl07.modempool.kth.se [130.237.37.27]) by mail0.nada.kth.se (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA25983 for ; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 16:26:58 +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: <13918.49059.779885.204883@srahtz> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 16:27:02 +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: 2962 At 15:05 +0000 1998/11/27, Sebastian Rahtz wrote: >oh lord, who said anything about PDF as a format for re-use? its a >display format. go back to the *ML source if you want to re-purpose. i >dont see the issue. I *do* say that PDF has not a good enough linking >model to support XLink, mind. I think that one should be able to integrate a format PDF with the authoring languages, so that the browser produces the output on the fly. In terms of Java, an extended PDF format would serve as the byte code of a corresponding JVM (Java Virtual Machine): It then gives the producer of the document the opportunity to decide what to put out on the WWW and how much security that is wanted. Hans Aberg * Email: Hans Aberg * Home Page: * AMS member listing: