Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([62.225.9.49]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:36:38 +0100 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h0M8aa6C007804 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:36:36 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C2C1F1.61176F00" Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id h0M8M3Aa001702; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:22:03 +0100 (MET) Received: from listserv (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.2/8.12.2/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id h0LN04B9021675; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:14:52 +0100 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 6876 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:14:52 +0100 Received: from relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (relay2.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.210.211]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.2/8.12.2/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id h0M8Eq5f024017 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:14:52 +0100 Received: from lumiere.idris.fr (lumiere.idris.fr [130.84.8.14]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id h0M8LxAa001682 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:21:59 +0100 (MET) Received: from lin2.idris.fr (root@lin2.idris.fr [130.84.4.161]) by lumiere.idris.fr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0M8LwCf421756 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:21:58 +0100 (CET) Received: (from gaulle@localhost) by lin2.idris.fr (8.11.2/8.11.2) id h0M8LvG29123; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:21:57 +0100 Return-Path: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Jan 2003 08:36:38.0672 (UTC) FILETIME=[617DF900:01C2C1F1] X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.26 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) X-Spam-Score: 0.8 () SPAM_PHRASE_00_01 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: Proposed change of policy Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:21:57 +0100 Message-ID: A<15918.21669.884770.540544@lin2.idris.fr> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Re: Proposed change of policy Thread-Index: AcLB8WGX07k9AO49SQCAT2x1SfehhQ== From: "Bernard Gaulle" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4467 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C2C1F1.61176F00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable David Kastrup writes: > Heiko Oberdiek writes: > > > On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 12:28:44AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > > > > > Do you know of a single document that would fail if e-TeX was = used? > > > > Yes, documents with french.sty will break. > > If I remember correctly, the reason is a name clash with \beginL. > > Let's warn them in 2003 and give them one year of time to get to > grips. > > If they don't, a compatibility file which does > \let\beginL\undefined > \let\beginR\undefined > > should not be too hard to do. But it would preclude (like now) > documents using french.sty to have a chance to typeset RL texts in a > standard manner. No pb at all for French. I confirm i have no report bug, as of today, where french.sty fails with eTeX. --bg ------_=_NextPart_001_01C2C1F1.61176F00 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: Proposed change of policy

David Kastrup writes:
 >         = Heiko Oberdiek <oberdiek@UNI-FREIBURG.DE> writes:
 >
 > > On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 12:28:44AM = +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
 > >
 > > > Do you know of a single document = that would fail if e-TeX was used?
 > >
 > > Yes, documents with french.sty will = break.
 > > If I remember correctly, the reason = is a name clash with \beginL.
 >
 > Let's warn them in 2003 and give them one = year of time to get to
 > grips.
 >
 > If they don't, a compatibility file which = does
 > \let\beginL\undefined
 > \let\beginR\undefined
 >
 > should not be too hard to do.  But it = would preclude (like now)
 > documents using french.sty to have a = chance to typeset RL texts in a
 > standard manner.

No pb at all for French. I confirm
i have no report bug, as of today, where french.sty = fails with eTeX.

  --bg

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