Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([62.225.9.49]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:50:50 +0100 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h0NBol6C012424 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:50:48 +0100 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 h0NBeCtt025805; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:40:13 +0100 (MET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C2C2D5.ACA34900" 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 h0MN04OL000617; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:32:39 +0100 Received: from LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 7611 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:32:39 +0100 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 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 h0NBMd5f006497 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:22:39 +0100 Received: from mailout07.sul.t-online.com (mailout07.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.83]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id h0NBTptt022699 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:29:51 +0100 (MET) Received: from fwd06.sul.t-online.de by mailout07.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 18bfYM-0005V2-01; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:29:50 +0100 Received: from localhost.localdomain (520018396234-0001@[62.226.11.138]) by fmrl06.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 18bfY5-170RwuC; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:29:33 +0100 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h0NBTVjI008061 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:29:31 +0100 Received: (from dak@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id h0NBTUlT008057; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:29:30 +0100 In-Reply-To: <15919.41139.137922.239605@lin2.idris.fr> Lines: 23 References: <15919.41139.137922.239605@lin2.idris.fr> Return-Path: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Jan 2003 11:50:50.0249 (UTC) FILETIME=[ACC94790:01C2C2D5] X-Sender: 520018396234-0001@t-dialin.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.28 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) X-Spam-Score: -2.8 () IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_GNUS_UA Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: LICR objects in math Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:29:29 +0100 Message-ID: A X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Re: LICR objects in math Thread-Index: AcLC1a0AiR+0u0WgSWiwAzv3FsEWog== From: "David Kastrup" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4477 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C2C2D5.ACA34900 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Bernard Gaulle writes: > David Kastrup writes: > > Heiko mentioned that e-TeX broke french.sty (which apparently > > caught Bernard by surprise), so it would also seem apparent that = this > > was not the first time the matter was brought up. > > once again there is no open report about any bug in french.sty with > eTeX (there was one in the last century... which was quickly > corrected). I stand corrected and have passed this information on to the tetex-pretest list. IIRC, it must have been about 4 or five years at least when Thomas Esser asked around whether he there was a reason not to be shipping eTeX by default. At that time, this might have been one reason against it. Another, of course, would be to provide a pristine TeX for those expecting it (I think Thomas considered shipping only eTeX, also for plain TeX/virtex/initex at that time). -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum ------_=_NextPart_001_01C2C2D5.ACA34900 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: LICR objects in math

        Bernard = Gaulle <gaulle@IDRIS.FR> writes:

> David Kastrup writes:
>  > Heiko mentioned that e-TeX broke = french.sty (which apparently
>  > caught Bernard by surprise), so it = would also seem apparent that this
>  > was not the first time the matter was = brought up.
>
> once again there is no open report about any bug = in french.sty with
> eTeX (there was one in the last century... which = was quickly
> corrected).

I stand corrected and have passed this information on = to the
tetex-pretest list.

IIRC, it must have been about 4 or five years at least = when Thomas
Esser asked around whether he there was a reason not = to be shipping
eTeX by default.  At that time, this might have = been one reason
against it.  Another, of course, would be to = provide a pristine TeX
for those expecting it (I think Thomas considered = shipping only eTeX,
also for plain TeX/virtex/initex at that = time).

--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

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