X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1024" "Wed" "2" "December" "1998" "12:46:21" "+0100" "Hans Aberg" "haberg@MATEMATIK.SU.SE" nil "24" "Re: What is \"base\" LaTeX" "^Date:" nil nil "12" 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 MAA17270; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 12:58:39 +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.F025BFE7@listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 12:58:36 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 412431 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 12:58:29 +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 MAA21289 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 12:58:28 +0100 (MET) Received: from [130.237.37.42] (sl22.modempool.kth.se [130.237.37.42]) by mail0.nada.kth.se (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA17698 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 12:58:10 +0100 (MET) X-Sender: su95-hab@mail.nada.kth.se References: (message from Hans Aberg on Wed, 2 Dec 1998 12:16:01 +0100) <199812012137.QAA25671@fenris.math.albany.edu> <13923.46894.353948.654511@srahtz> <199812012137.QAA25671@fenris.math.albany.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <199812021120.LAA14116@nag.co.uk> Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 12:46:21 +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: 3014 At 11:20 +0000 1998/12/02, David Carlisle wrote: >Yes but they are not public domain. Free use does not imply public >domain. For instance you can use latex for free, but that is not public >domain either. The wording "public domain" is not a legal one, and is not even a well defined term. Thus, one should always indicate ones software and indicate its uses, and not use the term "public domain". >> The *ML offer fast, simple typesetting, suitable for WWW and simpler types >> of printing. > >So you are telling Sebastian that the entire range of his company's >publications only ever use `simple typesetting, suitable for WWW' ? You are better off asking Sebastian what his company is doing. :-) But it's clear that no *ML can currently do the job of math typesetting in either paper or WWW media. Hans Aberg * Email: Hans Aberg * Home Page: * AMS member listing: