Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([213.139.130.197]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:34:01 +0100 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n0MNXxkl022811 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:33:59 +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 n0MNTCAC025203 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:29:12 +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 n0MN1Vv2019476; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:29:06 +0100 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.5) with spool id 166215 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:29:05 +0100 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n0MNC0Vx020924 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:12:00 +0100 Received: from mail-mx2.its.albany.edu (mail-mx2.its.albany.edu [169.226.1.164]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n0MNBGkb025070 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:11:20 +0100 Received: from hilbert.math.albany.edu (hilbert.math.albany.edu [169.226.140.28]) by mail-mx2.its.albany.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n0MNBFSt027823 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:11:16 -0500 (EST) Received: (from hammond@localhost) by hilbert.math.albany.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id n0MNBFAq002795; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:11:15 -0500 (EST) References: <200901210053.n0L0ruB01889@f7.net> <10CECC07-759A-430E-A9C6-79335882801D@gmail.com> <4978DC9B.2080605@morningstar2.co.uk> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.4 (usg-unix-v) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.64 on 213.139.130.197 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.65 on 169.226.1.164 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:11:15 -0500 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: William F Hammond Subject: Re: Key points of LaTex3 To: LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE In-Reply-To: <4978DC9B.2080605@morningstar2.co.uk> (Joseph Wright's message of "Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:52:43 +0000") Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-ProteoSys-SPAM-Score: -2.599 () BAYES_00 Return-Path: owner-latex-l@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Jan 2009 23:34:01.0716 (UTC) FILETIME=[E7EE7B40:01C97CE9] Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 5629 Joseph Wright writes: > I'd imagine that LaTeX3 documents will start with something other than > \documentclass (let's call it \documenttype, for arguments sake). Given > the likely size of a LaTeX3 kernel, essentially the entire 2e kernel > could also be included without making it all that much bigger. If the > first line of the file is \documenttype, the 2e stuff is never used. On > the other hand, if \documentclass is found, the new kernel "bails out", > runs the current 2e code and the file is processed as a 2e document. I'd like to suggest that \documenttype, consistent with usage in the gellmu project, be reserved for a document under an abstract LaTeX-like markup instance that is equivalent to a document instance under an SGML (or XML) document type. I think something like \Documentclass (upper case) would make more sense for new regime documents written in LaTeX the typesetting language Cheers. -- Bill