X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil]
	["360" "Mon" "14" "December" "1998" "18:50:52" "+0000" "Timothy Murphy" "tim@MATHS.TCD.IE" nil "14" "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 TAA28306;
	Mon, 14 Dec 1998 19:51:06 +0100 (MET)
Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <15.8A2DAD56@listserv.gmd.de>; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 19:51:01 +0100
Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE
          (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 413544 for
          LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 19:50:55 +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 TAA05148
          for <LATEX-L@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 19:50:52 +0100
          (MET)
Received: from boole.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id
          <aa29183@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>; 14 Dec 98 18:50:52 +0000 (GMT)
References: <v03110700b29ac70052bd@[130.237.37.82]>;
            <v03110702b29ab433e75a@[130.237.37.82]>
            <13938.39518.68424.927988@fell.open.ac.uk>
            <199812092035.VAA16014@na6.mathematik.uni-tuebingen.de>
            <v03110702b29ab433e75a@[130.237.37.82]>
            <13941.1847.962384.902117@srahtz>
            <v03110700b29ac70052bd@[130.237.37.82]>
            <19981214165125.B29182@maths.tcd.ie>
            <v03110706b29b03bc999e@[130.237.37.57]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i
Message-ID:  <19981214185052.A8449@maths.tcd.ie>
Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project
              <LATEX-L@URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
In-Reply-To:  <v03110706b29b03bc999e@[130.237.37.57]>; from Hans Aberg on Mon,
              Dec 14, 1998 at 07:11:00PM +0100
Date:         Mon, 14 Dec 1998 18:50:52 +0000
From: Timothy Murphy <tim@MATHS.TCD.IE>
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: portable LaTeX
Status: R
X-Status: 
X-Keywords:                  
X-UID: 3115

On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 07:11:00PM +0100, Hans Aberg wrote:

> >Obviously it has the advantage that it can be translated
> >into other languages, eg PostScript and PDF.
>
> Why is this an advantage _over_ say PDF?

Because 2 > 1.

--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie
tel: +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland