X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["558" "Mon" "7" "December" "1998" "17:36:58" "+0000" "Timothy Murphy" "tim@MATHS.TCD.IE" nil "18" "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 SAA00213; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 18:41:50 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <12.A209E2E9@listserv.gmd.de>; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 18:41:15 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 413003 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 18:37:01 +0100 Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (mmdf@salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA13432 for ; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 18:36:59 +0100 (MET) Received: from turing.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 7 Dec 98 17:36:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: (from tim@localhost) by turing.maths.tcd.ie (8.8.7/8.8.5) id RAA08976 for LATEX-L@urz.uni-heidelberg.de; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 17:36:58 GMT References: <4.1.19981206103413.01e099b0@pop.tiac.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i Message-ID: <19981207173658.D8618@maths.tcd.ie> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: ; from Robin Fairbairns on Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 04:57:07PM +0000 Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 17:36:58 +0000 From: Timothy Murphy 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: 3053 On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 04:57:07PM +0000, Robin Fairbairns wrote: > > including the ability to launch applications to > > deal with included file references to say PDF, HTML, TIFF files etc. > > (although it can also display TIFF directly). > > you beat xdvi there, though it does cope with most .eps inclusions > quite well. I think xdvi is actually supposed to be able to deal with such things, according to xdvik/mime.c . -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland