Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([213.139.130.197]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 23:28:12 +0200 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.12.9/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h6HLSAcH001470 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 23:28:11 +0200 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6HLMjmp028972; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 23:22:45 +0200 (MET DST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C34CAA.532B3E00" 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 h6GM0AkZ028243; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 23:22:15 +0200 Received: from LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 2617 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 23:22:15 +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 h6HLMFM9007842 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 23:22:15 +0200 Received: from mutant.triumf.ca (mutant.Triumf.CA [142.90.112.22]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6HLMcGl024309 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 23:22:39 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from asnd@localhost) by mutant.triumf.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA15134; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 14:32:56 -0700 In-Reply-To: Torsten Bronger's message of "Thu, 17 Jul 2003 22:26:19 +0200" Lines: 16 Organization: TRIUMF: Canada's national meson facility References: <20030710081528.A12401@diabolo.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> <16150.26432.179873.408825@pussy.npc.de> <200307171952.38152.tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> Return-Path: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Jul 2003 21:28:13.0026 (UTC) FILETIME=[53C7CC20:01C34CAA] User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 X-Authentication-Warning: mutant.triumf.ca: asnd set sender to asnd@triumf.ca using -f X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.28 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) X-Spam-Score: -34.4 () EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,QUOTE_TWICE_1,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_GNUS_UA,X_AUTH_WARNING Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: XML, UTF-8 and TeX engines Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 22:32:56 +0100 Message-ID: A X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Re: XML, UTF-8 and TeX engines Thread-Index: AcNMqlPjgRjiuKsiT3CJbS1FQ1UkeA== From: "Donald Arseneau" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4697 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C34CAA.532B3E00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Torsten Bronger writes: > > And isn't it quite sensible to distinguish between text and maths? > > XML doesn't do it and I find this very convenient. In (La)TeX, for > many characters you need different commands for text and math mode. > I'd love to have a typesetting system to which I could pass a say > 'small Greek letter alpha', and it would just work in every context. Oh, so you *do* want TeX to distinguish text from math mode, just as it currently does -- you are happy to type "a" in either mode, and have it printed according to contexyt, right? You just don't like some deliberate decisions made by the LaTeX people when they went from version 2.09 to 2e. Donald Arseneau asnd@triumf.ca ------_=_NextPart_001_01C34CAA.532B3E00 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: XML, UTF-8 and TeX engines

Torsten Bronger <bronger@PHYSIK.RWTH-AACHEN.DE> = writes:

> > And isn't it quite sensible to distinguish = between text and maths?
>
> XML doesn't do it and I find this very = convenient.  In (La)TeX, for
> many characters you need different commands for = text and math mode.
> I'd love to have a typesetting system to which I = could pass a say
> 'small Greek letter alpha', and it would just = work in every context.

Oh, so you *do* want TeX to distinguish text from math = mode, just
as it currently does -- you are happy to type = "a" in either mode,
and have it printed according to contexyt, = right?  You just don't
like some deliberate decisions made by the LaTeX = people when they
went from version 2.09 to 2e.

Donald = Arseneau           = ;            =    asnd@triumf.ca

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