Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([62.225.9.49]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Sun, 6 Jul 2003 18:25:02 +0200 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.12.9/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h66GOxPP007298 for ; Sun, 6 Jul 2003 18:25:00 +0200 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h66GJvGl015572; Sun, 6 Jul 2003 18:19:57 +0200 (MET DST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C343DB.268A4300" 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 h66BjwrI010120; Sun, 6 Jul 2003 18:18:10 +0200 Received: from LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 0424 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Sun, 6 Jul 2003 18:18:09 +0200 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 h66GI9pU011308 for ; Sun, 6 Jul 2003 18:18:09 +0200 Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id h66GJnGl015563 for ; Sun, 6 Jul 2003 18:19:49 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (qmail 2582 invoked by uid 65534); 6 Jul 2003 16:19:46 -0000 Received: from pD9EBE4CE.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO maus.home) (217.235.228.206) by mail.gmx.net (mp010) with SMTP; 06 Jul 2003 18:19:46 +0200 In-Reply-To: <16136.9181.487151.949600@istrati.mittelbach-online.de> References: <16134.24630.894055.174261@zarniwoop.ms25.local> <16136.9181.487151.949600@istrati.mittelbach-online.de> Return-Path: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Jul 2003 16:25:02.0560 (UTC) FILETIME=[26DFB600:01C343DB] User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.28 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) X-Spam-Score: -25.6 () IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_KMAIL Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: \input Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 17:20:05 +0100 Message-ID: A<200307061820.05314.m.g.n@gmx.de> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Re: \input Thread-Index: AcND2yb4Ma+i7CX3Rd+xf+1qvqaJBw== From: "Michael Niedermair" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4642 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C343DB.268A4300 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > best solution would indeed be support from the underlying engine > though i'm not sure that it is a good idea to keep support for the > original \TeX{} \input snytax at all, ie i'm not sure why one would > like to have both > > - \input standard-version > - \inputfile{} can be a Makros or has space But for compatibility it is necessary! In the future, one primitve is enough. By Michael ------_=_NextPart_001_01C343DB.268A4300 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: \input

> best solution would indeed be support from the = underlying engine
> though i'm not sure that it is a good idea to = keep support for the
> original \TeX{} \input snytax at all, ie i'm not = sure why one would
> like to have both
>
> - \input = <file>         = standard-version
> - \inputfile{<file>}    = <file> can be a Makros or has space

But for compatibility it is necessary!
In the future, one primitve is enough.

By
Michael

------_=_NextPart_001_01C343DB.268A4300--