X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["810" "Thu" "3" "December" "1998" "19:42:33" "+0100" "Chris Rowley" "C.A.Rowley@OPEN.AC.UK" 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 TAA05764; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 19:46:11 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <1.09B739B5@listserv.gmd.de>; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 19:46:09 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 411508 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 19:46:05 +0100 Received: from ixgate02.dfnrelay.d400.de (ixgate02.dfnrelay.d400.de [193.174.248.2]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA26749 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 19:46:02 +0100 (MET) X400-Received: by mta d400relay in /PRMD=dfnrelay/ADMD=d400/C=de/; Relayed; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 19:43:44 +0100 X400-Received: by mta venus in /PRMD=uk.ac/ADMD= /C=gb/; Relayed; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 19:42:27 +0100 X400-Received: by mta fell.open.ac.uk in /PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/; Relayed; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 19:41:48 +0100 X400-Received: by mta UK.AC.MHS-RELAY.SUN2 in /PRMD=uk.ac/ADMD= /C=gb/; Relayed; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 19:42:33 +0100 X400-Originator: C.A.Rowley@open.ac.uk X400-Recipients: non-disclosure:; X400-MTS-Identifier: [/PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/;<13926.55732.516725.882826@fell.] X400-Content-Type: P2-1988 (22) Content-Identifier: Re: What is (... Alternate-Recipient: Allowed References: <13922.59823.854744.337810@fell.open.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: VM 6.44 under Emacs 19.34.1 Message-ID: <13926.55732.516725.882826@fell.open.ac.uk> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 19:42:33 +0100 From: Chris Rowley 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: 3036 Robin Fairbairns wrote -- > care to offer a title, so i can go and browse in the cup shop? (or is > it out of print?) DJH Garling --- A course in Galois Theory. It may be, but ben does have friemds in the rioght places. > > > > It should be said that Hardy & Wright is an exception for its period. Never got on with it myself in them far off days (nor with Wittaker and Watson) ... now there is a formidable foursome to stand up to S's blandishments. > i wonder what proportion of the active members of this list are either > active (such as chris and tim) or ex- (such as me) mathematicians. > apart from sebastian, i can't think of many... > Quite a lot, I think (if one interprets mathematician and ex- widely enough:-) and even more are interested in high-qaulity techinical typesetting. chris