From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs design and architecture (was: Shrinking the C core) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 09:01:51 +0300 Message-ID: <835y4dmgxc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <873503y66i.fsf@yahoo.com> <87fs3ur9u8.fsf@dataswamp.org> <875y4moiiq.fsf@dataswamp.org> <83r0n4rj78.fsf@gnu.org> <83cyynpmvd.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="23062"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rms@gnu.org, owinebar@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Christopher Dimech Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 14 08:03:18 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qgfRe-0005nZ-7X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2023 08:03:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qgfQr-0008L0-CX; Thu, 14 Sep 2023 02:02:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qgfQb-0008HU-C6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2023 02:02:14 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qgfQZ-0004vx-8C; Thu, 14 Sep 2023 02:02:11 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=o80y77vgCfVb1MrgJmtKF1tbvZnT/nmKByZuDmLdGnI=; b=k6DFJnJEocgE s+yOc3BqD681gbPJsnS9yZ88yTubGDjHS37VHU9cBLNXNx6SO1WWQWrQUrggaDhDYOEV8nMKjjuvx JeRcZY0iRrJBx2SePA1sCo74N5m9mET0t+MIqU6hJ88bW5JaihVVfCx4KqSpImcAlESZMW6/9A6HO 2VfOhsc4YjBFUnB+Eqa0JHZ1Y6bhaHNS1AAPfzOQ3xXbYzuzq6g3DN9dR8daQfbnM9CkocBQsTZ4N 9EHo62A+YuJ4+zFhmnt4w+1EbQDaiDc2r/4HqOUZnEuvpRmCANHvbHwXPolUKYBdjJsqpCcnpTpRK 6DToyJYrHUJhhE3T7asb/w==; In-Reply-To: (message from Christopher Dimech on Wed, 13 Sep 2023 23:19:03 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:310567 Archived-At: > From: Christopher Dimech > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 23:19:03 +0200 > > One thing that needs rewriting is texinfo to use the latest functionalities > that are provided by the LaTeX3 Project (https://www.latex-project.org/latex3/) > > Today we continue to be restricted by what the TeX Core Engine can do. > We are continuing to work with the pre-1983 version before Leslie Lamport > developed LaTeX, a higher-level markup language built on top of TeX. Is this related to Emacs in any way? I think you need to post this to the Texinfo list (and I think they will tell you that the next Texinfo will have LaTeX support). Let's please remain focused on Emacs here, even in this discussion that naturally touches some less-than-practical issues.