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 f1FFaaH16045 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 16:36:36 +0100 Received: by webgate.proteosys.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f1FFaad11003 . for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 16:36:36 +0100 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 f1FFaZ729592 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 16:36:35 +0100 (MET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C09765.14A19A00" 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 QAA18804 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 16:36:35 +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 f1FFaXM15103 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 16:36:33 +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 <15.E6F40523@mail.listserv.gmd.de>; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 16:36:25 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 488965 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 16:36:31 +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 QAA15743 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 16:36:29 +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 QAA27296 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 16:36:29 +0100 Received: from abel.math.umu.se (abel.math.umu.se [130.239.20.139]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f1FFaTx12272 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 16:36:30 +0100 (MET) Received: from [130.239.20.144] (mac144.math.umu.se [130.239.20.144]) by abel.math.umu.se (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id QAA25210 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 16:34:36 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: References: Your message of "Thu, 15 Feb 2001 13:37:18 +0100." Return-Path: X-Sender: lars@abel.math.umu.se x-mime-autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de id QAA15744 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: Side remarks about TeX input sequence Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 16:36:27 +0100 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Lars_Hellstr=F6m?= 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: 3940 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C09765.14A19A00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable At 16.05 +0100 2001-02-15, Hans Aberg wrote: >At 12:41 +0000 2001/02/15, Robin Fairbairns wrote: >>you (as always) are dragging irrelevancies into the discussion, and >>adding nothing whatever to the discussion of the development of latex. > >Who has said it would bring anything to LaTeX? :-) You have (even though only implicitly), by posting to this list. If you send the command "info LATEX-L" to the LISTSERV server, it will (amongst many other things) tell you that * The purpose of this list is to discuss the development of the * successor to LaTeX version 2e. >-- My guess is that LaTeX is written to assume the one that ports TeX = to >the local OS does a local translation of line separators You really haven't ever bothered to read the sources (or even The = TeXbook), have you? (No, don't answer. It's a rhetorical question.) It's not an assumption of LaTeX, it's an assumption of TeX, and it's not just the = line separators (although they are given special treatment), it's _all_ characters. Lars Hellstr=F6m ------_=_NextPart_001_01C09765.14A19A00 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: Side remarks about TeX input sequence

At 16.05 +0100 2001-02-15, Hans Aberg wrote:
>At 12:41 +0000 2001/02/15, Robin Fairbairns = wrote:
>>you (as always) are dragging irrelevancies = into the discussion, and
>>adding nothing whatever to the discussion of = the development of latex.
>
>Who has said it would bring anything to LaTeX? = :-)

You have (even though only implicitly), by posting to = this list. If you
send the command "info LATEX-L" to the = LISTSERV server, it will (amongst
many other things) tell you that

*  The purpose of this list is to discuss the = development of the
*  successor to LaTeX version 2e.

>-- My guess is that LaTeX is written to assume the = one that ports TeX to
>the local OS does a local translation of line = separators

You really haven't ever bothered to read the sources = (or even The TeXbook),
have you? (No, don't answer. It's a rhetorical = question.) It's not an
assumption of LaTeX, it's an assumption of TeX, and = it's not just the line
separators (although they are given special = treatment), it's _all_
characters.

Lars Hellstr=F6m

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