X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1239" "Tue" "15" "December" "1998" "22:16:20" "+0100" "Hans Aberg" "haberg@MATEMATIK.SU.SE" nil "28" "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 WAA23388; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 22:21:42 +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.C02C0219@listserv.gmd.de>; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 22:21:40 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 413929 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 22:21:34 +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 WAA17322 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 22:21:32 +0100 (MET) Received: from [130.237.37.111] (sl75.modempool.kth.se [130.237.37.101]) by mail0.nada.kth.se (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA08677 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 22:21:30 +0100 (MET) X-Sender: su95-hab@mail.nada.kth.se 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: Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981215153311.00ac12c0@tiac.net> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 22:16:20 +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: 3160 At 15:36 -0500 1998/12/15, Y&Y, Inc. wrote: >>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. Well, speaking of an _authoring_ language, one would expect it to be able to express the authors intentions, whatever they may be: If the intention is a markup, a certain type of graphical representation, or a formula with a certain type of mathematical semantics, the author should be able to write it so that other tools can process it properly. So from this point of view, HTML and PDF and DVI are incomplete. Then the question has been circulated around giving LaTeX such increases authoring capacities. Hans Aberg * Email: Hans Aberg * Home Page: * AMS member listing: