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 f1DL5uH28240 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:05:56 +0100 Received: by webgate.proteosys.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f1DL5td02964 . for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:05:55 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C09600.C1AED200" 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 f1DL5t709057 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:05:55 +0100 (MET) Received: from mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.57]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA19344 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:05:54 +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 mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f1DL5s709049 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:05:54 +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 <9.94FB6130@mail.listserv.gmd.de>; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:05:47 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 489032 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:05:50 +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 WAA10452 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:05:49 +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 WAA50640 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:05:49 +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 f1DL5ng27241 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:05:49 +0100 (MET) Received: from pluto.math.albany.edu (pluto.math.albany.edu [169.226.23.44]) by csc.albany.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA18429 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 16:05:43 -0500 (EST) Received: (from hammond@localhost) by pluto.math.albany.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA24101 for LATEX-L@URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 16:05:11 -0500 (EST) Return-Path: Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: LaTeX's internal char prepresentation (UTF8 or Unicode?) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:05:11 +0100 Message-ID: <200102132105.QAA24101@pluto.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: 3901 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C09600.C1AED200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Frank -- > I don't think that xml is off topic at all. Most reassuring. > but it doesn't go all the way and I guess something like LaTeX still > has a place in the game; An XML document type is just a model of a language. I believe that old designs were optimized for processor writers at the expense of authors. I have been trying to optimize document type design for the traditional LaTeX author. LaTeX itself is the primary back end to paper that I have in mind and the only one I've written. -- Bill ------_=_NextPart_001_01C09600.C1AED200 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: LaTeX's internal char prepresentation (UTF8 or = Unicode?)

Frank --

> I don't think that xml is off topic at = all.

Most reassuring.

> but it doesn't go all the way and I guess = something like LaTeX still
> has a place in the game;

An XML document type is just a model of a = language.  I believe that
old designs were optimized for processor writers at = the expense of
authors.  I have been trying to optimize = document type design for the
traditional LaTeX author.

LaTeX itself is the primary back end to paper that I = have in mind and
the only one I've written.

          &nbs= p;            = ;            =   -- Bill

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