Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([62.225.9.49]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Tue, 18 Mar 2003 18:50:39 +0100 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h2IHoaa9014451 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 18:50:37 +0100 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2IHhwle002437; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 18:43:58 +0100 (MET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C2ED76.E2FDC180" Received: from listserv (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.3/8.12.3/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id h2HN051f027461; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 18:43:21 +0100 Received: from LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 9689 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 18:43:21 +0100 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.3/8.12.3/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id h2IHhL9d002964 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 18:43:21 +0100 Received: from mail.umu.se (mail.umu.se [130.239.8.30]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2IHhtvW001310 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 18:43:56 +0100 (MET) Received: from [130.239.20.144] (mac144.math.umu.se [130.239.20.144]) by mail.umu.se (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id h2IHhsWb061217 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 18:43:55 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <20030317201020549218.GyazMail.jbezos@wanadoo.es> References: <3BFEACE361F5BF429DD1DA593E3A7C0922402C@XCH-NW-28.nw.nos.boeing.com> <3BFEACE361F5BF429DD1DA593E3A7C0922402C@XCH-NW-28.nw.nos.boeing.com> Return-Path: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Mar 2003 17:50:39.0506 (UTC) FILETIME=[E34AF720:01C2ED76] X-Sender: lars@abel.math.umu.se x-mime-autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de id h2IHhL9d002965 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.28 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) X-Spam-Score: -0.5 () IN_REP_TO,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_02_03 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: xhead - a template pretending to be like fancyhdr Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 18:43:54 +0100 Message-ID: A X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Re: xhead - a template pretending to be like fancyhdr Thread-Index: AcLtduNpdHUWpaZ/QO6FFjT+6vnxQw== From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Lars_Hellstr=F6m?= To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4591 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C2ED76.E2FDC180 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable At 20.10 +0100 2003-03-17, Javier Bezos wrote: >Then, let's imagine the following: a GUI (Perl/Tk, Python/Tkinter, >Java/Swing... what you like) For (La)TeXies in general, I would think the original combination of = Tcl/Tk is more comfortable. Tcl's approach that "everything is a string" is straightforward and very flexible. As for all the zero-sized picture thingies that has been discussed, I = have to say that I don't quite understand what is meant. Is the idea to construct the box to ship out from zero-sized pieces that are positioned relative to some fixed point of reference? (The current approach is = simply to stack page header, body, and footer in a \vbox, is it not?) Lars Hellstr=F6m ------_=_NextPart_001_01C2ED76.E2FDC180 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: xhead - a template pretending to be like = fancyhdr

At 20.10 +0100 2003-03-17, Javier Bezos wrote:
>Then, let's imagine the following: a GUI = (Perl/Tk, Python/Tkinter,
>Java/Swing... what you like)

For (La)TeXies in general, I would think the original = combination of Tcl/Tk
is more comfortable. Tcl's approach that = "everything is a string" is
straightforward and very flexible.

As for all the zero-sized picture thingies that has = been discussed, I have
to say that I don't quite understand what is meant. = Is the idea to
construct the box to ship out from zero-sized pieces = that are positioned
relative to some fixed point of reference? (The = current approach is simply
to stack page header, body, and footer in a \vbox, is = it not?)

Lars Hellstr=F6m

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