<div dir="ltr">2016-03-25 10:27 GMT+01:00 Apostolos Syropoulos <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:asyropoulos@yahoo.com" target="_blank">asyropoulos@yahoo.com</a>></span>:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">><br>
>IMO the reason for such activity is to have one common declaration for all engines so that everything<br>
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>is defined at one place and 8-bit babel as well as that for XeTeX is generated from the same source.<br>
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OK then let's stop compiling and distributing TeX, dvips, etc.! The approach: one tool for everything is<br>
wrong, wrong! Although I rarely use Office suites, there are things that one can definitely do with<br>
a scripting language and LaTeX but it is far easier to use a spreadsheet. I am not against Javier's<br>
project I am just saying this is something the people who maintain babel should discuss.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Why to stop it? I just feel easier to have one common source for everything than maintaining a separate source for 8-bit babel, for babel for XeTeX, for babel for luatex etc. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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A.S.<br></blockquote><div><br><br><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">Zdeněk Wagner<br><a href="http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml" target="_blank">http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml</a><br><a href="http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz" target="_blank">http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz</a></div></div>
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----------------------Apostolos Syropoulos<br>
Xanthi, Greece<br>
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