Received: from mx0.gmx.net (mx0.gmx.net [213.165.64.100]) by h1439878.stratoserver.net (8.14.2/8.14.2/Debian-2build1) with SMTP id p06A9n3i028112 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 11:09:51 +0100 Received: (qmail 15978 invoked by alias); 6 Jan 2011 10:09:40 -0000 Delivered-To: GMX delivery to rainer.schoepf@gmx.net Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 06 Jan 2011 10:09:40 -0000 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (EHLO relay.uni-heidelberg.de) [129.206.100.212] by mx0.gmx.net (mx113) with SMTP; 06 Jan 2011 11:09:40 +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 p06A7sVt015635 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 6 Jan 2011 11:07:56 +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 p06A6inG001194; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 11:07:53 +0100 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 16.0) with spool id 780084 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 11:01:01 +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 p06A11pP020928 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 11:01:01 +0100 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 p06A0bw1001999 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 11:00:42 +0100 Received: from ueams02.uea.ac.uk (ueams02.uea.ac.uk [139.222.131.131]) by ueamailgate01.uea.ac.uk (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p069v49F006331; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 09:57:04 GMT Received: from [139.222.113.126] by ueams02.uea.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pamab-00077J-DN; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 09:57:01 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <19748.48031.990921.327320@morse.mittelbach-online.de> <4D258CCF.5080407@gmx.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN, outgoing) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=139.222.131.131; country=GB; region=I9; city=Norwich; latitude=52.6333; longitude=1.3000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.6333,1.3000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: UEA:outgoing (inherits from UEA:default,base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 66554439 - b492ffbddc88 - 20110106 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 139.222.131.184 Message-ID: <4D2591EF.5080202@morningstar2.co.uk> Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 09:57:03 +0000 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: Joseph Wright Subject: Re: xcoffins: missing functions? To: LATEX-L@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de In-Reply-To: <4D258CCF.5080407@gmx.de> Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-GMX-Antispam: 0 (Mail was not recognized as spam); Detail=5D7Q89H36p77e5KAPs1l6v/Sb97LojnDtMgfETrECMLUO9erHzOJe+OynZRhvlGqb5A0X bbiCt2rAnnct/NAlbHMvoAL6GY+23tB3khNK7Y6oT1sPizBjJUAOds0oJBO/5TIz9C5741aj9GOJ bE70Q==V1; X-Resent-By: Forwarder X-Resent-For: rainer.schoepf@gmx.net X-Resent-To: rainer@rainer-schoepf.de Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 6532 On 06/01/2011 09:35, Arno Trautmann wrote: > Hi all! > > Frank Mittelbach wrote: >> Basically what xcoffins currently does is to provide a fairly natural way for >> specifying how boxes (called coffins for some reason) > > May I ask for what reason? I'm always interested in the origin of > somewhat unusual names. (like MiK ;) ) 'boxes with handles' :-) (There does not seem to be another name that works any better, and coffins is memorable!) -- Joseph Wright