Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([213.139.130.197]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:25:30 +0200 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n7B8PThC005288 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:25:29 +0200 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.94]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n7B8M8cY013530 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:22:10 +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 n7B7w6Ic010332; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:22:07 +0200 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.5) with spool id 287271 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:22:06 +0200 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 n7B8M6Bn028985 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:22:06 +0200 Received: from ueamailgate01.uea.ac.uk (ueamailgate01.uea.ac.uk [139.222.131.184]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n7B8LoUl007420 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:21:54 +0200 Received: from ueams02.uea.ac.uk (ueams02.uea.ac.uk [139.222.131.131]) by ueamailgate01.uea.ac.uk (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n7B8LoaP027231 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:21:50 +0100 Received: from [139.222.202.22] by ueams02.uea.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Mamc5-0005Nq-Ia for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:21:45 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4A7921CF.5020803@morningstar2.co.uk> <4A7A1505.4040604@residenset.net> <4A7AD930.2090106@residenset.net> <8516B615-51AA-4D90-BB7D-A9E122AA0335@gmail.com> <4A804317.6050909@morningstar2.co.uk> <4A80469B.5040305@morningstar2.co.uk> <4A804ED7.4040305@morningstar2.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Canit-CHI2: 0.00 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN, outgoing) X-CanItPRO-Stream: UEA:outgoing (inherits from UEA:default,base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 27948352 - 5a9cc28083f5 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.65 on 213.139.130.197 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 139.222.131.184 Message-ID: <4A812A23.2000808@morningstar2.co.uk> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:21:55 +0100 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: Joseph Wright Subject: Re: xparse To: LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE In-Reply-To: Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-ProteoSys-SPAM-Score: -6.599 () BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED Return-Path: owner-latex-l@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Aug 2009 08:25:31.0160 (UTC) FILETIME=[4A237980:01CA1A5D] Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 5874 J.Fine wrote: > Perhaps you'll find, when you remove 'TeX macros' from the requirements specification you'll find that it's better not to use TeX macros for the implementation. Fundamental point, of course, but the current plan is that LaTeX3 will work with pdfTeX, XeTeX and LuaTeX. If we were going down the ConTeXt "LuaTeX-only" route, then I'd quite possibly agree. But we're not (at the moment!). -- Joseph Wright