Received: from webgate.proteosys.de (mail.proteosys-ag.com [62.225.9.49]) by lucy.proteosys (8.11.0/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id f1CGcP920673 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:38:25 +0100 Received: by webgate.proteosys.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f1CGcOd29949 . for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:38:25 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C09512.3820D680" Received: from mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailserver1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.30]) by mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f1CGcO708931 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:38:24 +0100 (MET) Received: from mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.56]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA20475 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:38:23 +0100 (MET) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (mail.listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.5]) by mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f1CGcLM25731 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:38:21 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.5) by mail.listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <2.0A3B046E@mail.listserv.gmd.de>; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:38:14 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 488812 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:38:18 +0100 Received: from ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (mail.urz.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.119.234]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA11862 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:38:17 +0100 (MET) Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA03876 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:38:16 +0100 Received: from csc.albany.edu (sarah.albany.edu [169.226.1.103]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f1CGcGu09170 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:38:16 +0100 (MET) Received: from hilbert.math.albany.edu (hilbert.math.albany.edu [169.226.23.52]) by csc.albany.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA19064 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:37:45 -0500 (EST) Received: (from hammond@localhost) by hilbert.math.albany.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA11389 for LATEX-L@URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:37:43 -0500 (EST) Return-Path: Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: LaTeX's internal char prepresentation (UTF8 or Unicode?) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:37:43 +0100 Message-ID: <200102121637.LAA11389@hilbert.math.albany.edu> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "William F. Hammond" Sender: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" To: "Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L" Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 3857 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C09512.3820D680 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sebastian: I think that Chris's assertion is justified by the growing importance of arXiv, i.e., the resource behind http://www.arxiv.org/. More and more, it is not just e-prints. > except that I question what this is all for. we have (in my view), = five > things kicking around . . . > 4 (La)TeX the style design language > 5 LaTeX the authoring language > > which is the important bit? which is the "unique public de facto > archival and communication language", exactly? It has not yet arrived. It needs to be and it can be one or perhaps a collection of XML document types, and one can come very close to making it (or them) appear like LaTeX for basic authoring. -- Bill ------_=_NextPart_001_01C09512.3820D680 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: LaTeX's internal char prepresentation (UTF8 or = Unicode?)

Sebastian:

I think that Chris's assertion is justified by the = growing importance
of arXiv, i.e., the resource behind http://www.arxiv.org/.  More = and
more, it is not just e-prints.

> except that I question what this is all for. we = have (in my view), five
> things kicking around
. . .
>  4 (La)TeX the style design language
>  5 LaTeX the authoring language
>
> which is the important bit? which is the = "unique public de facto
> archival and communication language", = exactly?

It has not yet arrived.  It needs to be and it = can be one or perhaps a
collection of XML document types, and one can come = very close to
making it (or them) appear like LaTeX for basic = authoring.

          &nbs= p;            = ;            = -- Bill

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