Begin forwarded message: > From: Eugene Surowitz <[email protected]> > Date: June 28, 2014 at 6:58:13 PM EDT > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Cc: Gabriel Dos Reis <[email protected]>, Ralf Hemmecke > <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: TexFormat with latex output > > My comments were motivated by Master Knuth's influence from reading TUGboat > vol.35 no.1 p.5 (see below) > > "The TeX Tuneup of 2014". Rather than suppressing creativity, a sound and > stable platform base > > enables it. PanAxiom is not that yet. The ")set" issue was the jumping off > point to support that. > > I see what you mean if someone wants to write an output routine that meets > their needs; no problem. > > I doubt most people will be doing things like that; stability first; > developers are another breed of cat. > > Knuth: > > The index to Digital Typography lists eleven pages where the importance of > stability is stressed, and I urge all maintainers of TEX and to read > them again every few years. Any object of nontrivial complexity is > non-optimum, in the sense that it can be improved in some way (while still > remaining non-optimum); therefore there’s always a rea- son to change > anything that isn’t trivial. But one of TEX’s principal advantages is the > fact that it does not change — except for serious flaws whose correction is > unlikely to affect more than a very tiny number of archival doc- uments. > > Cheers, Gene > > On Jun 27, 2014, at 5:05 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >>> \begin{array} is the "native" LaTeX book invocation >>> of an "array" environment; if somebody has added >>> a "pmatrix" environment, I personally would avoid >>> using it in anything I wrote unless it is in the >>> current LaTeX2e (or beyond) standard. >> >> Ralf is trying to do something constructive with documentation >> and no solution is perfect. I think he should be given the >> freedom to experiment. All of these complaints feel like >> "bike-shedding". >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bike_shed >> >> That said, anybody using Axiom tex/latex output would be expected >> to \usepackage{axiom}. There are Axiom-specific commands that I >> have written (such as the chunk environment) and I would expect >> to be able to use them in output formats. >> >> Tim -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
