Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([213.139.130.197]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:47:05 +0200 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n7BGl27q021376 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:47:03 +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 n7BGg8JN028550 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:42:09 +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 n7BCdJU1028140; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:42:01 +0200 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.5) with spool id 293692 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:42:00 +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 n7BGg0us022385 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:42:00 +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 n7BGflDa027478 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:41:50 +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 n7BGfko8018922 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:41:46 +0100 Received: from [139.222.200.201] by ueams02.uea.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MauPv-0002zj-P2 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:41:43 +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> <4A812A23.2000808@morningstar2.co.uk> <4A8134D8.9070502@morningstar2.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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: 27993199 - 057e975205b2 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: <4A819F4B.9030506@morningstar2.co.uk> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:41:47 +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 16:47:06.0161 (UTC) FILETIME=[5C283210:01CA1AA3] Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 5888 J.Fine wrote: > The translation could be done by a script written in Python. Knuth wrote Pascal, but you don't have to go that route either. > > I'd rather the LaTeX3 team were willing to be flexible here. There are many things that would be better done using a dynamic scripting language rather than TeX macros. But you still need to make binaries so that at the command line a user can type: latex3 (Particularly on Windows, you can't assume *any* scripting languages will be available "just like that". That is one reason Lua is a possible in the longer term: if LuaTeX is installed, you can always just use the Lua part without the TeX.) -- Joseph Wright