Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([62.225.9.49]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Mon, 7 Jul 2003 13:18:01 +0200 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.12.9/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h67BHxPP010233 for ; Mon, 7 Jul 2003 13:17:59 +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 h67B72Gl006588; Mon, 7 Jul 2003 13:07:02 +0200 (MET DST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C34479.6D2E7A80" 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 h677rPSP016396; Mon, 7 Jul 2003 13:06:37 +0200 Received: from LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 1040 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 7 Jul 2003 13:06:37 +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 (8.12.3/8.12.3/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id h67B6bM9018979 for ; Mon, 7 Jul 2003 13:06:37 +0200 Received: from control.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (control.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.53.6]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id h67B6YGl006496 for ; Mon, 7 Jul 2003 13:06:34 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (qmail 6255 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2003 11:06:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO i7.informatik.rwth-aachen.de) (137.226.53.122) by control.informatik.rwth-aachen.de with SMTP; 7 Jul 2003 11:06:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 8934 invoked by uid 607); 7 Jul 2003 11:06:31 -0000 In-Reply-To: ; from Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK on Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 11:47:02PM +0100 References: <3F075002.72955C93@MartinHensel.de> Return-Path: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Jul 2003 11:18:01.0680 (UTC) FILETIME=[6D963D00:01C34479] User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.28 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) X-Spam-Score: -32.8 () EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_MUTT Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: Invitation for discussion: My suggestion for a LaTeX3 syntax Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 12:06:31 +0100 Message-ID: A<20030707130631.C8845@diabolo.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Re: Invitation for discussion: My suggestion for a LaTeX3 syntax Thread-Index: AcNEeW2t6bJ+qSCwSIyuFSsPrSIp2A== From: "Achim Blumensath" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4645 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C34479.6D2E7A80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 11:47:02PM +0100, Robin Fairbairns wrote: > the fact is, that many people complain about the restrictions that tex > places on our programming, but no-one is willing to throw out the > basis of the "programming model" of tex -- rebuilding tex from scratch > is just too much of a job. I do not know whether I count for "someone" but I'm currently doing precisely this (see ant on my home page). On the other hand, I'm not exactly rebuilding TeX since I do not aim for 100% compatibility. Achim -- ________________________________________________________________________ | \_____/ = | Achim Blumensath \O/ \___/\ = | Mathematische Grundlagen der Informatik =3Do=3D \ = /\ \| www-mgi.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~blume /"\ = o----| ____________________________________________________________________\___|= ------_=_NextPart_001_01C34479.6D2E7A80 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: Invitation for discussion: My suggestion for a LaTeX3 = syntax

Hello,

On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 11:47:02PM +0100, Robin = Fairbairns wrote:
> the fact is, that many people complain about the = restrictions that tex
> places on our programming, but no-one is willing = to throw out the
> basis of the "programming model" of = tex -- rebuilding tex from scratch
> is just too much of a job.

I do not know whether I count for "someone" = but I'm currently doing
precisely this (see ant on my home page). On the = other hand, I'm not
exactly rebuilding TeX since I do not aim for 100% = compatibility.

Achim
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