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 f4EGdmf24749 for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 18:39:48 +0200 Received: by webgate.proteosys.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f4EGdm722448 . for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 18:39:48 +0200 Received: from mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailserver1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.30]) by mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f4EGdhU14255 for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 18:39:43 +0200 (MET DST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C0DC94.7D30E200" 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 SAA25732 for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 18:39:42 +0200 (MEST) 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 f4EGdg014957 for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 18:39:42 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.5) by mail.listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <3.79E9AEE4@mail.listserv.gmd.de>; Mon, 14 May 2001 18:38:04 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 496260 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 14 May 2001 18:39:39 +0200 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 SAA19707 for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 18:39:37 +0200 (MET DST) 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 SAA43878 for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 18:39:37 +0200 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 f4EGdaQ22192 for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 18:39:36 +0200 (MET DST) 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 SAA10937; Mon, 14 May 2001 18:36:18 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: References: Return-Path: X-Sender: lars@abel.math.umu.se x-mime-autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de id SAA19709 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: Multilingual Encodings Summary 2.2 Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 17:39:36 +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: 4066 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C0DC94.7D30E200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable At 15.05 +0200 2001-05-14, I wrote: >Don't overestimate Knuth's foresight here. He needed some place to = store >the font-related information TeX would need, so he simply packed all = kinds >of information into a single file. I now see that I was wrong about Knuth's role in this. tex.web says: The format of TFM files was designed by Lyle Ramshaw in 1980. The intent is to convey a lot of different kinds of information in a compact but useful form. Lars Hellstr=F6m ------_=_NextPart_001_01C0DC94.7D30E200 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: Multilingual Encodings Summary 2.2

At 15.05 +0200 2001-05-14, I wrote:
>Don't overestimate Knuth's foresight here. He = needed some place to store
>the font-related information TeX would need, so = he simply packed all kinds
>of information into a single file.

I now see that I was wrong about Knuth's role in this. = tex.web says:

  The format of TFM files was designed by Lyle = Ramshaw in 1980.
  The intent is to convey a lot of different = kinds of information
  in a compact but useful form.

Lars Hellstr=F6m

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