>>>>> "RF" == Robin Fairbairns <[log in to unmask]> writes: RF> david is right: to make assertions about the way the user RF> interface "will be", you need to know whether your proposal is RF> actually practicable. if any part of your proposal is not RF> practicable, there's a danger that everything you suggest will be RF> ignored, however good _some_ parts of it are. To back this up with empirical data: I read until the two paragraphs below "The Space Problem" -- and then immediately stopped reading. These paragraphs made quite clear that the author didn't know a thing about TeX constraints (and is erroneous about space handling in HTML and XML as well). Obviously somebody who is new to technical details of existing markup languages. So the probability to find something worthwile in the rest of the text was not high enough to spend the time reading further. If Robin wouldn't have answered, I wouldn't have read any more of this thread as well. Martin, you might want to publish your document on tex-d-l, de.comp.text.tex or comp.text.tex. There you will get better feedback from potential users, and also from people who know TeX programming since many years and who might explain to you which parts of your proposals are reasonable and which aren't. Cheers, Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Joachim Schrod Email: [log in to unmask] Roedermark, Germany ``How do we persuade new users that spreading fonts across the page like peanut butter across hot toast is not necessarily the route to typographic excellence?'' -- Peter Flynn