X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["804" "Wed" "16" "December" "1998" "19:39:57" "+0100" "Hans Aberg" "haberg@MATEMATIK.SU.SE" nil "20" "Re: portable LaTeX" "^Date:" nil nil "12" nil "portable LaTeX" 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 UAA12802; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 20:03:34 +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 UAA26755; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 20:03:32 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <6.E163ACF0@listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 19:43:55 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 413718 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 19:43:34 +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 TAA05969 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 19:43:32 +0100 (MET) Received: from [130.237.37.107] (sl52.modempool.kth.se [130.237.37.72]) by mail0.nada.kth.se (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA20318 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 19:43:30 +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: <13943.54045.536409.797051@srahtz> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 19:39:57 +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: 3188 At 15:34 +0000 1998/12/16, Sebastian Rahtz wrote: >Hans Aberg writes: > > > These are kind of examples that I am looking: One should work directly with > > an enhanced DVI, so that one does not get dependant on a long chain of > > fixes. > >pdfTeX is a TeX version that implements an enhanced DVI, its called >PDF. you know, that language for which our dot-matrix-loving-friend >Herber can write drivers. there are two good, free, open source >implementations of PDF drivers to start from Well, that's a good start. Perhaps the idea can be used for developing someting more advanced. Hans Aberg * Email: Hans Aberg * Home Page: * AMS member listing: