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@@ -2,29 +2,29 @@
%
% Copyright (C) 1993-2020
% The LaTeX3 Project and any individual authors listed elsewhere
-% in this file.
-%
+% in this file.
+%
% This file is part of the LaTeX base system.
% -------------------------------------------
-%
+%
% It may be distributed and/or modified under the
% conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c
% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
% The latest version of this license is in
% http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
-% and version 1.3c or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX
+% and version 1.3c or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX
% version 2008 or later.
-%
+%
% This file has the LPPL maintenance status "maintained".
-%
+%
% The list of all files belonging to the LaTeX base distribution is
% given in the file `manifest.txt'. See also `legal.txt' for additional
% information.
-%
-% The list of derived (unpacked) files belonging to the distribution
-% and covered by LPPL is defined by the unpacking scripts (with
+%
+% The list of derived (unpacked) files belonging to the distribution
+% and covered by LPPL is defined by the unpacking scripts (with
% extension .ins) which are part of the distribution.
-%
+%
% \fi
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
\title{\Large The \LaTeX3 Project}
-\author{\copyright 1995--1999 \
+\author{\copyright 1995--1999 \
Frank Mittelbach and
Chris Rowley}
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ Chris Rowley}
\item The printed documentation of CD-ROM collections that contain
\LaTeX.
\item On-line collections that include a significant proportion of
- documents encoded in \LaTeX.
+ documents encoded in \LaTeX.
\end{itemize}
\end{abstract}
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ The purposes of the \LaTeX3 system can be summarized thus: it will
greatly increase the range of documents which can be processed; and it
will provide a flexible interface for typographic designers to easily
specify the formatting of a class of documents.
-
+
The \LaTeX3 Project Team is a small group of volunteers whose aim is
to produce this major new document processing system based on the
principles pioneered by Leslie Lamport in the current \LaTeX.
@@ -122,11 +122,11 @@ enhanced by extensions to that core system. They will continue to
develop and maintain this system, releasing updated versions every six
months and recording these activities in the \LaTeX{} bugs database
(see below).
-
+
Although \LaTeX{} may be distributed freely, the production and
maintenance of the system does require expenditure of reasonably large
sums of money. The \LaTeX3 Project Fund has therefore been set up to
-channel money into this work. We know that some users are
+channel money into this work. We know that some users are
aware of this fund as they have already contributed to it---many
thanks to all of them! If you want to know more about how you can
help the project, see Page \pageref{fund}---and thanks in advance for
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ described as a world-wide de facto standard for high quality
typesetting. Its use is particularly common in specialized areas, such
as technical documents of various kinds, and for multi-lingual
requirements.
-
+
The \TeX{} system is fully programmable. This allows the development
of high-level user interfaces whose input is processed by \TeX{}'s
interpreter to produce low-level typesetting instructions; these are
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ long documents such as textbooks and manuals. It separates content and
form as much as possible by providing the user with a generic (\ie
logical rather than visual) mark-up interface; this is combined with
style sheets which specify the formatting.
-
+
Recent years have shown that the concepts and approach of \LaTeX{} are
now widely accepted. Indeed, \LaTeX{} has become the standard method
of communicating and publishing documents in many academic
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ considered a powerful combination of great importance to such areas as
corporate documentation and publishing. This has also extended to
on-line publishing using, for example, \PDF{} output incorporating
hypertext and other active areas.
-
+
With the spreading use of \SGML{}-compliant systems (\eg Web-based
publishing using \HTML{} or \XML{}) \TeX{} again is a common choice as
the formatting engine for high quality typeset output: a widely used
@@ -210,9 +210,9 @@ necessary in, at least, the following areas:
the extendibility (package interface);
\item
the layout specification of tabular material;
- \item
+ \item
the specification and inclusion of graphical material;
- \item
+ \item
the positioning of floating material, and other aspects of page
layout;
\item
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ necessary in, at least, the following areas:
\item Font declaration and selection;
\item Font and glyph handling within mathematical formulas;
\item Handling multiple font glyph encodings within a document;
-\item Allowing multiple input character encodings within a document;
+\item Allowing multiple input character encodings within a document;
\item A uniform interface for graphics inclusion;
\item Support for coloured text;
\item Building and interfacing new classes and extension packages.
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ necessary in, at least, the following areas:
The strengths of the present version of \LaTeX{} are
as follows:
\begin{itemize}
- \item excellent standard of typesetting for text, technical
+ \item excellent standard of typesetting for text, technical
formulas\\
and tabular material;
\item separation of generic mark-up from visual formatting;
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ and tabular material;
\begin{itemize}
\item
It will provide a syntax that allows highly automated translation
- from popular \SGML{} DTDs into \LaTeX{} document classes (these
+ from popular \SGML{} DTDs into \LaTeX{} document classes (these
will be provided as standard with the new version).
The syntax of the new \LaTeX{} user-interface will, for example,
@@ -287,14 +287,14 @@ and tabular material;
could easily be interfaced to a visually-oriented, menu-driven
specification system.
- This interface will also support \DSSSL{} specifications and
+ This interface will also support \DSSSL{} specifications and
style-sheet concepts such as those used with \HTML{} and \XML{}.
-
+
\item
It will provide an enhanced user-interface that allows expression of
the typesetting requirements from a large range of subject areas. Some
examples are listed here.
-
+
\begin{itemize}
\item The requirements of technical documentation (\eg offset layout,\\
change bars, etc).
@@ -306,19 +306,19 @@ and tabular material;
within text.
\item the integration of hypertext and other links in on-line
documents using systems such as \HTML{}, \XML{} and \PDF{}.
-
+
\end{itemize}
Special care will be taken to ensure that this interface is
extensible: this will be achieved by use of modular designs.
-
-
+
+
\item
It will provide a more robust author-interface. For example,
artificial restrictions on the nesting of commands will be removed.
Error handling will be improved by adding
a more effective, interactive help system.
-
+
\item
It will provide access to arbitrary fonts from any family (such as
the \PS{} and TrueType fonts) including a wide range of fonts for
@@ -330,17 +330,17 @@ and tabular material;
system will provide extensive catalogues of examples, carefully
designed to make the learning time for new users (both designers and
authors) as short as possible.
-
+
\item
The code itself will be thoroughly documented and it will be
designed on modular principles. Thus the system will be easy to
maintain and to enhance.
\end{itemize}
-
+
The resulting new \LaTeX{} will, like the present version, be usable
with any standard \TeX{} system (or whatever replaces it) and so will
be freely available on a wide range of platforms.
-
+
\section{\LaTeX{} documentation}
@@ -363,10 +363,10 @@ project is:
\end{citations}
This \LaTeX{} distribution comes with documentation on several aspects
-of of the system. The newer features of the system are described in
+of the system. The newer features of the system are described in
the following documents:
\begin{citations}
-\item[\LaTeXe{} for authors]
+\item[\LaTeXe{} for authors]
describes the new features of \LaTeX{} documents,
in the file \texttt{usrguide.tex};
\item[\LaTeXe{} for class and package writers]
@@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ sums of money. There are many necessities that need substantial
financing: examples are new or enhanced computing equipment and travel
to team meetings (the volunteers come from many different countries,
so getting together occasionally is a non-trivial exercise).
-
+
This is why we are appealing to you for contributions to the fund.
Any sum will be much appreciated; the amount need not be large as
small contributions add up to very useful amounts. Contributions of
@@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ Contributions should be sent to one of the following addresses:
\begin{quote}\small\label{addrs}
\TeX{} Users Group, P.O. Box 2311, Portland, OR~97208-2311 USA\\
Fax:~+1~503~223~3960 \ Email: \texttt{tug@tug.org}
-
+
\noindent
UK TUG, 1 Eymore Close, Selly Oak, Birmingham B29~4LB UK\\
Fax: +44 121 476 2159 \ Email: \texttt{uktug-enquiries@tex.ac.uk}
@@ -469,6 +469,3 @@ For more information, see the \LaTeX{} home page.
\end{document}
-
-
-