From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/18652 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: !MML Date: 14 Nov 1998 22:55:56 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035157139 7282 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:38:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:38:59 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA27395 for ; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 17:58:28 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAB07399; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 16:48:27 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 14 Nov 1998 16:48:22 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA21144 for ; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 16:48:05 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sparky.gnus.org (ppp109.uio.no [129.240.240.114]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA27217 for ; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 17:47:56 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by sparky.gnus.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA04051; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 23:51:58 +0100 Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Reading: nothing X-Now-Playing: Thomas Dolby's _The Flat Earth_ Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Hrvoje Niksic's message of "14 Nov 1998 21:52:02 +0100" User-Agent: Gnus/5.070045 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.45) XEmacs/21.2(beta3) (Aglaia) X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ writes: > Double er. The problem with this is that `This is plain text.' > must not contain closed parentheses -- or its parens must be balanced, > depending on how you implement it -- but both strike me as wrong. Yes. I don't think Lisp is the right thing for free text. > Again, perhaps it's just me and everyone else is ha-ha-happy about > these design ideas for multipart composition. The problem with any document language is that it makes it difficult to talk about the language itself. Trying to write a manual on LaTeX (without \verbatim available) would be a nightmare, for instance. So any language we decide on has to be able to talk about itself. The MML language (which has only four commands, , , and makes it quite easy to achieve this -- one could, for instance, demand that users write to talk about . -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen