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Subject:      Re: What is "base" LaTeX
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At 16:44 +0000 1998/12/02, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>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?

I believe I was the one who wrote that and not William F. Hammond. Do you
want me to reply, or can you figure out the answers on your own? :-)

  Hans Aberg
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