X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["411" "Wed" "2" "December" "1998" "16:44:28" "GMT" "Sebastian Rahtz" "s.rahtz@ELSEVIER.CO.UK" nil "10" "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 RAA25457; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 17:46:32 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <12.26E7344E@listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 17:46:28 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 412671 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 17:46:24 +0100 Received: from pillar.elsevier.co.uk (root@pillar.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.35]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA18397 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 17:46:20 +0100 (MET) Received: from snowdon.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.164]; by pillar.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP; for ""; sender "s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk"; id QAA27227; hop 0; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 16:37:54 GMT Received: from screavie.elsevier.co.uk by snowdon.elsevier.co.uk with SMTP (PP); Wed, 2 Dec 1998 16:45:04 +0000 Received: from lurgmhor.elsevier.co.uk (lurgmhor.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.7]) by screavie.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA22850 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 16:44:21 GMT Received: (from srahtz@localhost) by lurgmhor.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA17791; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 16:44:28 GMT References: <199812021616.LAA19326@hilbert.math.albany.edu> Message-ID: <199812021644.QAA17791@lurgmhor.elsevier.co.uk> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <199812021616.LAA19326@hilbert.math.albany.edu> Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 16:44:28 GMT From: Sebastian Rahtz 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: 3027 William F. Hammond writes: > : I think it is well-known by now, that all these mass-consumer movements, > : which the *ML currently represents, usually lacks crucial quality. gosh. we old-time SGML-heads are stunned to hear that we are "mass-consumer". I never noticed. > : Eventually such quality might built in, of course. how do you "build quality" into a meta language for describing markup? sebastian