X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1174" "Mon" "14" "December" "1998" "19:19:17" "+0100" "Hans Aberg" "haberg@MATEMATIK.SU.SE" nil "28" "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 TAA25363; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 19:19:21 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <13.1D2D897A@listserv.gmd.de>; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 19:19:20 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 413512 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 19:19:15 +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 TAA02805 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 19:19:06 +0100 (MET) Received: from [130.237.37.57] (sl121.modempool.kth.se [130.237.37.147]) by mail0.nada.kth.se (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA26411 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 19:19:02 +0100 (MET) X-Sender: su95-hab@mail.nada.kth.se References: <13941.11832.164081.296097@srahtz>; from Sebastian Rahtz on Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 03:26:48PM +0000 <13938.39518.68424.927988@fell.open.ac.uk> <199812092035.VAA16014@na6.mathematik.uni-tuebingen.de> <199812141457.IAA15514@dcdrjh.fnal.gov> <13941.11832.164081.296097@srahtz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <19981214170857.D29182@maths.tcd.ie> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 19:19:17 +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: 3111 At 17:08 +0000 1998/12/14, Timothy Murphy wrote: >I believe the discussion here, and on the pdftex mailing list, >provide very strong arguments for using a "mid-language" like DVI. >It's madness, in my view, to modify the TeX engine >in order to allow inclusion of particular graphic formats. What modifications do they do in pdfTeX? Otherwise, a weakness of TeX is of course that it does not handle inclusion of other formats well, that there is no standard for: My guess is that one should perhaps use an IDL API, defining the positioning of the inline graphics. If TeX should handle such new primitives, then TeX needs something more radical than merely an extension. >While Thanh's pdfTeX is a marvellous piece of work, >which satisfied an urgent need, >in my view it is fundamentally misconceived, >and will in time be replaced by a version based on possibly extended DVI. But will an extended DVI suffice as a new byte-code for WWW publishing? Hans Aberg * Email: Hans Aberg * Home Page: * AMS member listing: