Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([213.139.130.197]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:51:33 +0100 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n0A9pWcC007472 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:51:33 +0100 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 n0A9lfVm008589 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:47:42 +0100 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 n09N2NXo016127; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:47:41 +0100 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.5) with spool id 188654 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:47:41 +0100 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 n0A9leR2008632 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:47:40 +0100 Received: from mail.proteosys.com (mail.proteosys.com [213.139.130.197]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n0A9lcPD020119 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:47:42 +0100 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n0A9lYR0007437 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:47:35 +0100 X-X-Sender: rainer@wintermute.proteosys References: <4967D17B.6090805@morningstar2.co.uk> <18791.62838.753341.298278@morse.mittelbach-online.de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-ProteoSys-SPAM-Score: -2.599 () BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.64 on 213.139.130.197 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.64 on 213.139.130.197 X-Spam-Auto-Whitelist: Message-ID: Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:47:34 +0100 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Rainer_Sch=F6pf?= Subject: Re: l3precom To: LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE In-Reply-To: <18791.62838.753341.298278@morse.mittelbach-online.de> Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: Return-Path: owner-latex-l@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Jan 2009 09:51:33.0818 (UTC) FILETIME=[0555D1A0:01C97309] Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 5585 On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 at 02:10 +0100, Frank Mittelbach wrote: > That's roughly the history. Now why isn't there any LDB? partly because we > couldn't find a final good presentational syntax on the designer level that we > felt was understandable to a "designer" and not just to a programmer. Cascading style sheets have a similar problem. I believe that their syntax is a reasonable compromise. Rainer