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-<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label TeXfuture</title>
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-<h3>What is the future of TeX?</h3>
-<p/>Knuth has declared that he will do no further development of TeX;
-he will continue to fix any bugs that are reported to him (though
-bugs are rare). This decision was made soon after
-TeX version 3.0 was released; at each bug-fix release
-the version number acquires one more digit, so that it tends to the
-limit pi (at the time of writing, Knuth&#8217;s latest release
-is version 3.1415926). Knuth wants TeX to be frozen at
-version pi when he dies; thereafter, no further changes
-may be made to Knuth&#8217;s source. (A similar rule is applied to Metafont;
-its version number tends to the limit e, and currently
-stands at 2.718281.)
-<p/>Knuth explains his decision, and exhorts us all to respect it, in a
-paper originally published in
-<a href="http://tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb11-4/tb30knut.pdf"><i>TUGboat</i> 11(4)</a>,
-and reprinted in the
-<a href="http://www.ntg.nl/maps/pdf/5_34.pdf">NTG journal MAPS</a>.
-<p/>There are projects (some of them long-term
-projects: see, for example,
-<a href="FAQ-LaTeX3.html">the LaTeX3 project</a>)
-
-to build substantial
-new macro packages based on TeX. For the even longer term, there
-are various projects to build a <em>successor</em> to TeX. The
-<a href="FAQ-etex.html">e-TeX</a> extension to TeX itself arose from such a
-project (NTS). Another pair of projects, which have delivered
-all the results they are likely to deliver, is the related
-<a href="FAQ-omegaleph.html">Omega and Aleph</a>. The
-<a href="FAQ-xetex.html">XeTeX system</a> is in principle still under
-development, but is widely used, and the
-<a href="FAQ-luatex.html">LuaTeX project</a> (though with another two years of
-development scheduled) has already delivered a system that is quite
-useful.
-<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=TeXfuture">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=TeXfuture</a>
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