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"William F. Hammond" <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:37:43 -0500
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Sebastian:

I think that Chris's assertion is justified by the growing importance
of arXiv, i.e., the resource behind http://www.arxiv.org/.  More and
more, it is not just e-prints.

> except that I question what this is all for. we have (in my view), five
> things kicking around
. . .
>  4 (La)TeX the style design language
>  5 LaTeX the authoring language
>
> which is the important bit? which is the "unique public de facto
> archival and communication language", exactly?

It has not yet arrived.  It needs to be and it can be one or perhaps a
collection of XML document types, and one can come very close to
making it (or them) appear like LaTeX for basic authoring.

                                    -- Bill

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