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 * Email: Hans Aberg <mailto:[log in to unmask]> * Home Page: <http://www.matematik.su.se/~haberg/> * AMS member listing: <http://www.ams.org/cml/>