X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["921" "Mon" "14" "December" "1998" "13:30:53" "+0100" "Hans Aberg" "haberg@MATEMATIK.SU.SE" nil "20" "Re: portable LaTeX" "^Date:" nil nil "12" nil "portable LaTeX" 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 NAA24945; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 13:30:40 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <12.675E7831@listserv.gmd.de>; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 13:30:39 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 412919 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 13:30:34 +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 NAA21520 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 13:30:32 +0100 (MET) Received: from [130.237.37.82] (sl124.modempool.kth.se [130.237.37.150]) by mail0.nada.kth.se (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA24460 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 13:30:29 +0100 (MET) X-Sender: su95-hab@mail.nada.kth.se References: <13938.39518.68424.927988@fell.open.ac.uk> (message from Chris Rowley on Sat, 12 Dec 1998 18:05:25 +0100) <199812092035.VAA16014@na6.mathematik.uni-tuebingen.de> <13938.39518.68424.927988@fell.open.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <199812140945.JAA02920@nag.co.uk> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 13:30:53 +0100 From: Hans Aberg Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: portable LaTeX Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 3094 At 09:45 +0000 1998/12/14, David Carlisle wrote: >Most TeX users will never want to author in XML, however there are many >advantages in authoring in tex and transforming to XML (even if >eventually the document is printed by transforming back to tex). >It gives a mechanism for consistency checking and communicating with >the wider non-tex world, that is simply not available in an all-tex >solution. One could just as well make a new computer language designed for authoring, with the parsing capabilities that TeX lacks, translating into say XML (or TeX, as you wish). The problem with translating into TeX is that it eventually compiles into DVI files, which are too restricted for use on WWW. Hans Aberg * Email: Hans Aberg * Home Page: * AMS member listing: