X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["714" "Wed" "16" "December" "1998" "10:28:30" "+0000" "Sebastian Rahtz" "s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk" nil "18" "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 NAA20606; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:10:09 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <14.A21F745B@listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:08:27 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 413353 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:08:23 +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 NAA25849 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:07:51 +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 LAA04751; hop 0; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 11:59:03 GMT Received: from srahtz (actually host srahtz.elsevier.co.uk) by snowdon.elsevier.co.uk with SMTP (PP); Wed, 16 Dec 1998 12:07:23 +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: <13943.35662.403959.906992@srahtz> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 10:28:30 +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: 3169 Hans Aberg writes: > >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? no. with pdfTeX you can get direct access to PDF as you compose the TeX. an obvious example where pdftex is needed is to allow breaking of links across lines and pages - theoretically possibly in a dvi->ps->pdf, but I havent seen anyone do it. > By the way, can pdf display everything taht a WWW browser can (say > interactive Java byte-code)? PDF is a language, not a bit of software. a PDF browser may have a Java interpreter, yes. I have no idea what "interactive byte-code" could conceivably be sebastian