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+<head>
+<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label latex2e</title>
+</head><body>
+<h3>What is LaTeX2e?</h3>
+<p/>Lamport&rsquo;s last version of LaTeX (LaTeX 2.09, last updated in 1992)
+was superseded in 1994 by a new version (LaTeX2e) provided by
+<a href="FAQ-LaTeX3.html">the LaTeX team</a>.
+LaTeX2e is now the only readily-available version of
+LaTeX, and draws together several threads of LaTeX development
+from the later days of LaTeX 2.09.
+<p/>LaTeX2e has several enhancements over LaTeX 2.09, but they were all
+rather minor, with a view to continuity and stability rather than the
+&ldquo;big push&rdquo; that some had expected from the team. LaTeX2e
+continues to this day to offer a compatibility mode in which most
+files prepared for use with LaTeX 2.09 will run (albeit with somewhat
+reduced performance, and subject to bitter complaints in the log
+file). Differences between LaTeX2e and LaTeX 2.09 are
+outlined in a series of &lsquo;guide&rsquo; files that are available in every
+LaTeX distribution (the same directory also contains &ldquo;news&rdquo; about
+each new release of LaTeX2e).
+<dl>
+<dt><tt><i>LaTeX guides and news</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/doc.zip">macros/latex/doc</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/doc.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/doc/">browse</a>)
+</dl>
+<p/><p/>
+<p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=latex2e">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=latex2e</a>
+</body>