Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([213.139.130.197]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:06:56 +0200 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m8H86pwo024381 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:06:51 +0200 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.94]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m8H82tYN014903 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:02:55 +0200 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m8GM1HMC010773; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:02:54 +0200 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.5) with spool id 37777 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:02:54 +0200 Received: from relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (relay2.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.210.211]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m8H82sMY025098 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:02:54 +0200 Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.145]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m8H82ThQ017500 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:02:33 +0200 Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 4so1253376eyk.58 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:02:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.187.201.4 with SMTP id d4mr327635faq.17.1221638549209; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:02:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.187.201.20 with HTTP; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:02:29 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <48D0AF89.2010704@morningstar2.co.uk> Message-ID: <27990a880809170102x3a452c6elc237b94cf964687b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:32:29 +0930 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: Will Robertson Subject: Re: Array and amstext To: LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE In-Reply-To: <48D0AF89.2010704@morningstar2.co.uk> Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-ProteoSys-SPAM-Score: -2.599 () BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.64 on 213.139.130.197 Return-Path: owner-latex-l@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Sep 2008 08:06:56.0918 (UTC) FILETIME=[5A81A360:01C9189C] Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 5334 On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Joseph Wright wrote: > > I've been giving a little thought to how I might implement something > like siunitx in expl3. An initial assessment points to two support > packages: array and amstext. Both strike me as pretty much essential > for LaTeX3, so I wondered if it is likely that either functionality > might make it into the new kernel? Good question :) I suspect the underlying interface to tabular material will remain rather similar. (Although I'd like to write a better *user* interface, one day.) Either way, I can't see anything happening in the near future since porting array would be a big job and maths is all rather up in the air at the moment. (breqn is taking form but it's very early days yet; it's current incarnation on CTAN is probably the last that *won't* use the expl3 bundle, though.) But there's no problem, of course, using their "LaTeX2e" macros in your package. W