X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1102" "Wed" "2" "December" "1998" "19:43:27" "+0100" "Hans Aberg" "haberg@MATEMATIK.SU.SE" nil "27" "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 TAA30537; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 19:43:58 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <10.83E83BFC@listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 19:43:36 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 412764 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 19:43:31 +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 TAA00004 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 19:43:25 +0100 (MET) Received: from [130.237.37.58] (sl79.modempool.kth.se [130.237.37.105]) by mail0.nada.kth.se (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA25423 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 19:43:22 +0100 (MET) X-Sender: su95-hab@mail.nada.kth.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <199812021616.LAA19326@hilbert.math.albany.edu> Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 19:43:27 +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: 3032 At 11:16 -0500 1998/12/02, William F. Hammond wrote: >: I think it is well-known by now, that all these mass-consumer movements, >: which the *ML currently represents, usually lacks crucial quality. >: Eventually such quality might built in, of course. > >Only because very few elitist mathematicians have been involved (up to >now). > >: But until then, there will be a need for TeX/LaTeX. > >And beyond then, as well! I think that when at the point when the various *ML movements have moved so far that they have the capacity of generating a manuscript with all the information that a mathematician want, then one would still need a NL (notational language) with capacity of accepting less corny syntaxes than the SGML stuff. But then there is no point in using TeX/LaTeX as everything that can be done in those languages can be done more conveniently and accurately in this NL. Hans Aberg * Email: Hans Aberg * Home Page: * AMS member listing: