X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["599" "Mon" "14" "December" "1998" "14:10:31" "+0000" "Sebastian Rahtz" "s.rahtz@ELSEVIER.CO.UK" nil "18" "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 PAA15217; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 15:29:52 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <4.09BF1FF9@listserv.gmd.de>; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 15:29:44 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 413153 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 15:25:10 +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 PAA07255 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 15:24:59 +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 OAA27114; hop 0; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 14:16:14 GMT Received: from srahtz (actually host srahtz.elsevier.co.uk) by snowdon.elsevier.co.uk with SMTP (PP); Mon, 14 Dec 1998 14:24:29 +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: <13938.39518.68424.927988@fell.open.ac.uk> <199812092035.VAA16014@na6.mathematik.uni-tuebingen.de> Message-ID: <13941.7255.489674.140731@srahtz> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 14:10:31 +0000 From: Sebastian Rahtz 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: 3098 Hans Aberg writes: > > my .tex files compile into PDF, thanks... > > I would be great if PdfTeX, and some of the other TeX extensions could be > built togeter and elevated to a common standard. well, the major TeX "kits" have done this. anything based on web2c has pdftex there already, and so does MikTeX > Does DVI have any advantages over PDF? do you really want to open this can of worms? :-} answer: yes, theoretically; no, in practice. many people will reply that "xdvi is the best viewer I know" or "i can't get acrobat for my platform". but are those "advantages of dvi" sebastian