X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1250" "Wed" "2" "December" "1998" "14:05:25" "+0100" "Hans Aberg" "haberg@MATEMATIK.SU.SE" nil "31" "Re: What is \"base\" LaTeX" "^Date:" nil nil "12" nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (root@kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.158]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA07999; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 14:41:09 +0100 (MET) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA01349; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 14:05:42 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <15.4EB02BB9@listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 14:05:40 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 412526 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 14:05:36 +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 OAA27256 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 14:05:24 +0100 (MET) Received: from [130.237.37.42] (sl67.modempool.kth.se [130.237.37.93]) by mail0.nada.kth.se (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA23932 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 14:05:08 +0100 (MET) X-Sender: su95-hab@mail.nada.kth.se References: (message from Hans Aberg on Wed, 2 Dec 1998 12:46:21 +0100) (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: <199812021218.MAA14258@nag.co.uk> Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 14:05:25 +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: 3021 At 12:18 +0000 1998/12/02, David Carlisle wrote: >> The wording "public domain" is not a legal one, and is not even a well >> defined term. >I think you will find that it is defined in some jurisdictions, but that >is by the way. Doubt it. >> But it's clear that no *ML can currently do the job of math typesetting in >> either paper or WWW media. > >That is not clear at all. We are dicussing (mainly) author markup. Once >can clearly get tex quality (not least, by using tex) out of a document >that is marked up in XML. It is true, that especially for mathematics, >there is not (yet?) a realistic authoring environment that produces >mathematics marked up to an XML dtd. That is a big problem, but it is a >separate problem. Well, if the system does currently not exist, currently it can't do the job. Otherwise, in the context of math authoring, it is clear that merely author markup will be too cumbersome. The *ML is a nice movement though; I wonder what will come next: Perhaps a language also suitable for authoring. Hans Aberg * Email: Hans Aberg * Home Page: * AMS member listing: