Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([213.139.130.197]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:48:31 +0200 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n7CHmUra021116 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:48:31 +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 n7CHhRH0002363 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:43:28 +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 n7CBGmuT017198; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:43:19 +0200 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.5) with spool id 293865 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:43:19 +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 n7CHhJRw026589 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:43:19 +0200 Received: from mail-mx1.its.albany.edu (mail-mx1.its.albany.edu [169.226.1.163]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n7CHh4s5008074 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:43:08 +0200 Received: from hilbert.math.albany.edu (hilbert.math.albany.edu [169.226.140.28]) by mail-mx1.its.albany.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n7CHh35p020766 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:43:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from hammond@localhost) by hilbert.math.albany.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id n7CHh3cT002393; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:43:03 -0400 (EDT) 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> <30090124-F668-4FB3-8F03-5CB615F80D6F@gmail.com> 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 2.65 on 213.139.130.197 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.65 on 169.226.1.163 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:43:03 -0400 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: William F Hammond Subject: Re: Gellmu, was Re: xparse To: LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE In-Reply-To: (Will Robertson's message of "Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:15:43 +0930") 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: 12 Aug 2009 17:48:31.0642 (UTC) FILETIME=[1B49B7A0:01CA1B75] Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 5907 Will Robertson writes: > ... I suppose my general question is: would Gellmu make a good candidate > for a standardised LaTeX3 input syntax? ... The vocabulary of the didactic document type is, well, didactic though like LaTeX in many ways. But I would be inclined to see its vocabulary as a prototype for a standardized LaTeX3 input syntax -- a base from which to build. More of the regular LaTeX2E vocabulary should be adapted. Separate from that I do see it as important for the LaTeX Project to provide support for legacy documents and to maintain, within reasonable bounds of sanity, the LaTeX2E typesetting language. (For one thing gellmu's didatic production system relies on the typesetting language.) -- Bill