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Re: What is "base" LaTeX
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Hans Aberg <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 2 Dec 1998 12:46:21 +0100
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At 11:20 +0000 1998/12/02, David Carlisle wrote:
>Yes but they are not public domain. Free use does not imply public
>domain. For instance you can use latex for free, but that is not public
>domain either.

The wording "public domain" is not a legal one, and is not even a well
defined term. Thus, one should always indicate ones software and indicate
its uses, and not use the term "public domain".

>> The *ML offer fast, simple typesetting, suitable for WWW and simpler types
>> of printing.
>
>So you are telling Sebastian that the entire range of his company's
>publications only ever use `simple typesetting, suitable for WWW' ?

You are better off asking Sebastian what his company is doing. :-)

But it's clear that no *ML can currently do the job of math typesetting in
either paper or WWW media.

  Hans Aberg
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