X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["221" "Sat" "28" "November" "1998" "12:43:01" "+0100" "Chris Rowley" "C.A.Rowley@OPEN.AC.UK" nil "10" "Re: portable 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 MAA21149; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 12:43:17 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <5.221DDCCA@listserv.gmd.de>; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 12:43:16 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 411228 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 12:43:12 +0100 Received: from ixgate02.dfnrelay.d400.de (ixgate02.dfnrelay.d400.de [193.174.248.2]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA15324 for ; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 12:43:09 +0100 (MET) X400-Received: by mta d400relay in /PRMD=dfnrelay/ADMD=d400/C=de/; Relayed; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 12:43:04 +0100 X400-Received: by mta venus in /PRMD=uk.ac/ADMD= /C=gb/; Relayed; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 12:42:55 +0100 X400-Received: by mta fell.open.ac.uk in /PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/; Relayed; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 12:42:19 +0100 X400-Received: by mta UK.AC.MHS-RELAY.SUN in /PRMD=uk.ac/ADMD= /C=gb/; Relayed; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 12:43:01 +0100 X400-Originator: C.A.Rowley@open.ac.uk X400-Recipients: non-disclosure:; X400-MTS-Identifier: [/PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/;<13919.57622.145781.34105@fell.o] X400-Content-Type: P2-1988 (22) Content-Identifier: Re: portable ... Alternate-Recipient: Allowed References: <199811261814.NAA16984@hilbert.math.albany.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: VM 6.44 under Emacs 19.34.1 Message-ID: <13919.57622.145781.34105@fell.open.ac.uk> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <13918.35217.61736.372419@srahtz> Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 12:43:01 +0100 From: Chris Rowley Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: portable LaTeX Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2975 Sebastian Rahtz wrote -- > DSSSL, an ISO standard developed after a decade of work... Now why does immediately bring to my mind the legendary Algol68 standard ... I must be getting (even more) old and cynical? chris