X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil]
	["422" "Fri" "4" "December" "1998" "14:17:50" "+0000" "Sebastian Rahtz" "s.rahtz@ELSEVIER.CO.UK" nil "12" "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 PAA14610;
	Fri, 4 Dec 1998 15:37:31 +0100 (MET)
Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <7.6F836E1F@listserv.gmd.de>; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 15:37:16 +0100
Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE
          (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 411482 for
          LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 15:37:11 +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 PAA04494 for <LATEX-L@URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>; Fri, 4 Dec
          1998 15:37:02 +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
          "<LATEX-L@URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>"; sender "s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk";
          id OAA02556; hop 0; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 14:28:32 GMT
Received: from srahtz (actually host srahtz.elsevier.co.uk) by
          snowdon.elsevier.co.uk with SMTP (PP); Fri, 4 Dec 1998 14:36:21 +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: <199812041359.IAA12584@hilbert.math.albany.edu>
Message-ID:  <13927.61198.268127.362348@srahtz>
Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project
              <LATEX-L@URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
In-Reply-To:  <199812041359.IAA12584@hilbert.math.albany.edu>
Date:         Fri, 4 Dec 1998 14:17:50 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@ELSEVIER.CO.UK>
Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project
              <LATEX-L@URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L
              <LATEX-L@URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
Subject:      Re: What is "base" LaTeX
Status: R
X-Status: 
X-Keywords:                  
X-UID: 3042

William F. Hammond writes:

 > :   . . .                                       your friend TeX will
 > : still be there underneath, formatting away for you.
 >
 > I'm not clear about what this means.  Is it more than print only?
 > Does it refer to Eitan Gurari's "tex4ht"?
 >
i was just thinking of print. i just mean that your <foo> may eventually
become "a^3", and be eaten by a TeX process composing a book

sebastian