X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1035" "Wed" "16" "December" "1998" "16:10:42" "+0100" "Hans Aberg" "haberg@MATEMATIK.SU.SE" nil "23" "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 QAA04777; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 16:15:00 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <4.B102295A@listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 16:14:59 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 413554 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 16:14:56 +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 QAA13269 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 16:14:11 +0100 (MET) Received: from [130.237.37.107] (sl17.modempool.kth.se [130.237.37.37]) by mail0.nada.kth.se (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA03357 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 16:14:09 +0100 (MET) X-Sender: su95-hab@mail.nada.kth.se References: <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: <13943.39896.480540.616437@srahtz> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 16:10:42 +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: 3181 At 11:39 +0000 1998/12/16, Sebastian Rahtz wrote: >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? It is the lack of pluralism on the market: So for example, I am not sure you have noticed, but ther is more than one coomercial supplier of papers, but there is just one company asking licence fees for PS/PDF and developing that standard. These problems are for real in the software world: In the past, i think it existed with FORTRAN, and of course still today with UNIX, which is owned by Bell labs, I think. Hans Aberg * Email: Hans Aberg * Home Page: * AMS member listing: