At 15:38 +0000 1998/12/19, Robin Fairbairns wrote:
>it is of course absolutely nothing whatever to do with object
>orientation in tex or the lack of it.  it's to do with what bits of a
>paragraph tex makes available to the user after it's been split into
>lines (not, as it happens, a lot).  how those bits would be made
>accessible, if that was going to happen) is a matter that could differ
>according to whether the underlying engine was trying to exhibit
>object orientation or not, but waving a magic o-o wand over tex won't
>alter the way it works in the smallest particular.

Well, that's the OO of the output language; and in order to get that OO in
the output language, you will need an engine able to process OO.

  Hans Aberg
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