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Hello Bill
>> if I may run the last thought on:
Certainly!
>> and that can be regarded as definitive by those who write programs for
>> translating LaTeX to-and-from other formats
agreed, and
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I think a standard list of core LaTeX user level commands (from the
kernel and core packages) would be great.
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but
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Because it will not be frozen forever in time,
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yes, this is needed in addition to a
I had been thinking of both a 'standard' that is fixed (unless, for
example, a new package clearly needs to be added or the basic user
commands get extended (very unlikely!)) and, in addition, a non-frozen
list (or lists) of what is 'available' 'widely used' or 'what
XXX-system understands': these lists would then be easier to create
since they can be of the form
standard + <additions> - <unsupported/unused>.
It may turn out that there is a need for more than one such 'standard':
from where I sit, bombarded by YAMathInput system versions, just to get
basic-math + amsmath
structures into a well-publicised standard would be really useful.
Would such standards suit you too?
>> it should be something that is distributed with LaTeX.
That of course is up to Them:-).
(Getting anything distributed is quite a pin these days.)
Any other ideas/comments form suppliers/users of LaTeX-encoded documents
would be welcome. Thanks, chris
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