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One thing that occurred to me while I was waking up just now was that
it might be neat to have a TeXinfo-like MIME interface.  Like:

@alternative
@part{text/plain}
This is plain text.
@part{text/enriched}
@charset{iso-8859-1}
This ïs <b>enriched</b>.
@part{image/gif}
@external{~/rms.gif}
@end{alternative}

And so on.  Commands for all the things one wants.  A MIME composition
language.  Of course, one could add a gazillion MIME composition
commands so that people doesn't have to write stuff like that unless
they really want to.

The most common command would be

@externalpart{image/gif}{~/rms.gif}

(Er.  Or something.)

which isn't really more intrusive than the current buttoney approach.

Now, I really like TeXinfo, but I realise that some weird people might
not, so I don't know whether this really is a good idea or not.

And besides, I haven't really woken up properly yet.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen