X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1201" "Fri" "4" "December" "1998" "14:15:37" "+0000" "Sebastian Rahtz" "s.rahtz@ELSEVIER.CO.UK" nil "28" "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 PAA14439; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 15:36:43 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <9.4FE3DF8B@listserv.gmd.de>; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 15:36:23 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 411475 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 15:36:18 +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 PAA04401 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 15:36:15 +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 OAA02527; hop 0; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 14:27:42 GMT Received: from srahtz (actually host srahtz.elsevier.co.uk) by snowdon.elsevier.co.uk with SMTP (PP); Fri, 4 Dec 1998 14:35:33 +0000 X-Mailer: emacs 20.3.2 (via feedmail 9-beta-3 Q); VM 6.61 under Emacs 20.3.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <199812041356.IAA12575@hilbert.math.albany.edu> Message-ID: <13927.61065.15387.894793@srahtz> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <199812041356.IAA12575@hilbert.math.albany.edu> Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 14:15:37 +0000 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: 3041 William F. Hammond writes: > (But nobody plans to author directly in MathML.) depends what you mean by `author in MathML'. is Amaya `authoring in MathML'? seems like it to me > Amen. Of course, you write not only the software that processes > but also a dtd (document type definition) that serves in some sense as > an outline for the software logic. if you want, yes. recommended, but not mandatory > done by processors. Before any serious processing is done your macros > need to be fully expanded. (We don't see that expansion with our eyes > when using TeX-based systems.) and lord, how much heartache that blindness has caused us all over the years... > presentation format. And one might want to think very carefully about > exactly when, along the road, "\alpha" (oops, in xml I mean > "") should be resolved to unicode (which is what happens if I > write "α". no, sorry, untrue. α is resolved to whatever your DTD resolves it to. it can resolve to if you want. or alpha. well, entity expansion has some problems, so in fact is more flexible, but lets not claim that there are any hard-wired mappings for α sebastian