<font size=2 face="sans-serif">Dear Ralf,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">We are planning the next release of
Xy-pic. In particular, we are working on PDF support, including support
for (some) color with pdfTeX.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">So I was wondering: should we discuss
to make xyling an "official" feature of Xy-pic, and would you
be interested in working with me on this?</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">It does necessitate some packaging changes:
(1) the package needs to be under GPL and stored in the project on SourceForge,
(2) the package should work with all variants of TeX (such as plain TeX,
AMS-TeX, etc.; it may use miniltx.tex), and (3) the package should be stored
as a special "xyling.doc" file, which contains (and generates)
a the feature option file xyling.tex as well as an attributed summary section
for the Xy-pic Reference Manual (in a particular format). Your current
manual does not have to change (and indeed a wrapper xyling.sty file can
still be included for LaTeX use).</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">What do you think?</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Cheers,</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> Kris</font>
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