At 16.05 +0100 2001-02-15, Hans Aberg wrote: >At 12:41 +0000 2001/02/15, Robin Fairbairns wrote: >>you (as always) are dragging irrelevancies into the discussion, and >>adding nothing whatever to the discussion of the development of latex. > >Who has said it would bring anything to LaTeX? :-) You have (even though only implicitly), by posting to this list. If you send the command "info LATEX-L" to the LISTSERV server, it will (amongst many other things) tell you that * The purpose of this list is to discuss the development of the * successor to LaTeX version 2e. >-- My guess is that LaTeX is written to assume the one that ports TeX to >the local OS does a local translation of line separators You really haven't ever bothered to read the sources (or even The TeXbook), have you? (No, don't answer. It's a rhetorical question.) It's not an assumption of LaTeX, it's an assumption of TeX, and it's not just the line separators (although they are given special treatment), it's _all_ characters. Lars Hellström