X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["599" "Fri" "18" "December" "1998" "09:37:14" "GMT" "David Carlisle" "davidc@NAG.CO.UK" nil "16" "pointless discussions: was: 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 LAA12139; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 11:02:01 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <6.4BE9C277@listserv.gmd.de>; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 11:01:59 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 413427 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 10:38:21 +0100 Received: from nag.co.uk (openmath.nag.co.uk [192.156.217.16]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA12413 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 10:38:09 +0100 (MET) Received: (from davidc@localhost) by nag.co.uk (AIX4.2/UCB 8.7/8.7) id JAA21980; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 09:37:14 GMT Message-ID: <199812180937.JAA21980@nag.co.uk> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 09:37:14 GMT From: David Carlisle Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: pointless discussions: was: portable LaTeX Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 3197 >You can, but I can't. >Probably because you are rich. I think this is the problem: People in the publishing industry buys all the expensive Adobe licenced PS/PDF stuff and then only works with that, because they have the money and do not want to risk incompatibilities. The others are left out in the cold. The problem with this argumemt is that the software that Berthold was referring to was acrobat reader and the windows gdi printing system. The first is free, the second is not, but I would not say that someone with a windows box was necessarily classed as rich. David