X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1264" "Tue" "15" "December" "1998" "15:36:57" "-0500" "Y&Y, Inc." "support@YANDY.COM" nil "34" "Re: portable 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 VAA21215; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 21:37:25 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <3.90ED8847@listserv.gmd.de>; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 21:37:23 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 413894 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 21:37:17 +0100 Received: from life.ai.mit.edu (life.ai.mit.edu [128.52.32.80]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA15024 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 21:37:08 +0100 (MET) Received: from MAUI (maui.ai.mit.edu [128.52.37.105]) by life.ai.mit.edu (8.9.1/AI2.7/ai.master.life:2.2) with SMTP id PAA20749 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:37:06 -0500 (EST) X-Sender: yandy@tiac.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 References: <13942.19034.339454.14516@srahtz> <13938.39518.68424.927988@fell.open.ac.uk> <199812092035.VAA16014@na6.mathematik.uni-tuebingen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: <4.1.19981215153311.00ac12c0@tiac.net> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:36:57 -0500 From: "Y&Y, Inc." 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: 3158 At 20:01 1998-12-15 +0100, Hans Aberg wrote: >> > On the other hand, if the format from the beginning understands links (like >> > PDF), there is no doubt that it will work if the format converted to also >> > understands links >>the PostScript which is fed to Distiller or ps2pdf understands >>links. so there you go. read up on the pdfmark operator, if you are >>interested >So are you saying that pdfTeX is wholly unnecessary, as this works just as >well? Not sure what you are getting at. One view of pdfTeX is that it is a shortcut. Whether you use pdfTeX or DVI => PS => PDF you use pdfmarks to generate links and other magic. The issues are orthogonal. >It seems to contradict your earlier statements about pdfTeX. >By the way, can pdf display everything taht a WWW browser can (say >interactive Java byte-code)? No. Can HTML preserve page layout and include fonts and figures all in one file? HTML is not a replacement for PDF and PDF is not a replacement for HTML. They serve different purposes. You can have hypertext links in either one. Maybe we can move this part of the discussion to comp.text.pdf where this leads to endless threads every couple of weeks. Regards, Berthold. Y&Y, Inc. mailto:support@YandY.com http://www.YandY.com