X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["357" "Wed" "16" "December" "1998" "11:39:04" "+0000" "Sebastian Rahtz" "s.rahtz@ELSEVIER.CO.UK" nil "10" "Re: portable LaTeX" "^Date:" nil nil "12" nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (root@kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.158]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA05216; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 15:17:43 +0100 (MET) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA14561; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:24:06 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <15.7E13AF45@listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:14:36 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 413367 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:14:32 +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 NAA26573 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:14:29 +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 MAA05065; hop 0; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 12:05:37 GMT Received: from srahtz (actually host srahtz.elsevier.co.uk) by snowdon.elsevier.co.uk with SMTP (PP); Wed, 16 Dec 1998 12:14:00 +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: <13943.39896.480540.616437@srahtz> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 11:39:04 +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: 3175 Hans Aberg writes: > But it seems a bad thing to tie an extension of TeX to such a commercial > product (like PS/PDF). we are all agog to hear about the free chip you use to run TeX, the free printer you use, or even the free paper you print on. Fancy tying TeX to the commercial world of paper and film suppliers! what *was* Don thinking of? sebastian