X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1251" "Wed" "16" "December" "1998" "11:45:35" "+0100" "Hans Aberg" "haberg@MATEMATIK.SU.SE" nil "37" "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 LAA08626; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 11:48:39 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <8.03DEAB3D@listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 11:45:17 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 413280 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 11:45:14 +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 LAA18493 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 11:45:11 +0100 (MET) Received: from [130.237.37.106] (sl80.modempool.kth.se [130.237.37.106]) by mail0.nada.kth.se (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA08002 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 11:45:04 +0100 (MET) X-Sender: su95-hab@mail.nada.kth.se References: Your message of "Tue, 15 Dec 1998 19:45:49 +0100." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 11:45:35 +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: 3172 At 09:17 +0000 1998/12/16, Robin Fairbairns wrote: >hans aberg meandered: > >> At 10:03 +0000 1998/12/15, Sebastian Rahtz wrote: >> >same as Java, PostScript, HPGL etc then. one is tempted to say "get real" >> >> Java is subject to ISO standardization, so it is not going to be owned >>by Sun. > >speaking as an iso standardiser, i can say (with great feeling) that >if you believe that, you'll believe anything. I am afraid your comment is not very informative. Please explain. >> PostScript, of course, have had the problems in the past that commercial >> products usually have: There were requirement of special PS CPU's and >> license fees and stuff, making several other companies not using it. > >there is, of course, an iso standard based on postscript (it's called >spdl). fat lot of difference it's made. And there will be an ISO standard based on Java called Java. Besides, ISO standards themselves are no heaven; quite often they lead to the opposite. >> One is tempted to say "get real". > >pah! Pah on yourself! Hans Aberg * Email: Hans Aberg * Home Page: * AMS member listing: