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-% This is issue 16 of LaTeX News.
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-\documentclass
-% [lw35fonts] % uncomment this line to get Palatino
- {ltnews}[2004/02/28]
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-% \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
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-\publicationmonth{December}
-\publicationyear{2003}
-\publicationissue{16}
-
-\begin{document}
-
-\maketitle
-
-%\raisefirstsection
-
-\section{Anniversary news}
-
-This anniversary \textit{Issue~16} takes a brief look into the future work of
-the \LaTeX3 Project Team, both short and and longer range. Please let
-us know if you want %\newline
-to get involved with us in any of this work (see below).
-
-An overview of the 10th Anniversary Release, dated 2003/12/01, is
-can be found in \textit{Issue~15}.
-
-
-\section{TLC2: The \LaTeX{} Companion -- 2nd edition!}
-
-Since you are reading this newsletter, there is a good chance that
-you, or a friend, has already bought this encyclopedic volume: the
-incomparable Second\newline
-Edition of this work that is every \LaTeX{}ie's\newline
-ultimate lucky charm.
-
-If by some chance you have not yet purchased your own copy then get
-into training, get shopping, and get flexing your muscles (both
-physical---it's $1100+$~pages,\newline
-and intellectual) by using it to discover
-masses of invaluable `insider information' about:
-\begin{itemize}
-\item the latest release of Standard \LaTeX{};
-\item over~200~extension packages;
-\item plus related software and systems.
-\end{itemize}
-For more information on this all new (??\ldots OK,\newline
-not \emph{all}, but over 90\%!!),
-all accurate (we hope!)\newline
-10th~Anniversary Edition, check out\newline
- \mbox{\url{http://www.awprofessional.com/titles/0201362996}}.
-
-
-\section{Future maintenance}
-
-We are currently exploring how best to support the very large and
-rapidly growing community of individuals, organisations and
-enterprises that depend on the robustness and availability of the
-current standard \LaTeX{} distribution. Although we remain firmly\newline
-resolved not to make changes in the base distribution (the kernel) of
-Standard \LaTeX{}, there is still much that needs doing to maintain
-its reliability and utility and to keep up the necessary level of
-communication with users and supporters. Also, as with all advanced
-software systems, bugs are still turning up occasionally so %\newline
-some fixes are still essential.
-
-One major impediment to providing adequate service levels in this area
-is, of course, the difficulties inherent in obtaining the time and
-commitment of skilled minds---hence the appeal above to anyone
-interested %\newline
-in getting involved.
-
-
-\section{LPPL certification}
-
-There are still some outstanding diplomatic tasks around the
-\LaTeX{} Project Public Licence: these include
-e.g.,~getting it `OSF certified' and ensuring that it gains
-more support and wider use, even in the FSF world\newline
-where it has long been tolerated.
-
-
-\section{Use of \eTeX/pdf\TeX}
-
-We expect that within the next two years, releases of \LaTeX{} will
-change modestly in order to run best under an extended \TeX{} engine
-that contains the \eTeX{} primitives, e.g., \eTeX{} or pdf\TeX{}.
-The details of this possible upgrade need further work so we are not
-making a definite announcement yet.
-
-Although the current release does not \emph{require} \eTeX{} features,
-we certainly recommend using an extended \TeX{}, especially if you
-need to debug macros.
-
-
-\section{End of `autoload' support}
-
-As computer systems generally grow in capacity, requirements change
-and so we believe that the \package{autoload} variant of \LaTeX{} is
-no longer required. Thus, although the code remains it is no longer
-supported. We hope this does not cause any problems.
-
-
-\section{New models, new code}
-
-In the period 1999--2001 we published many results of our work over
-the previous decade on the development of new concepts and models
-for automated typesetting based on \TeX{} as the underlying platform.
-These can be found at \url{http://www.latex-project.org/papers/}
-and
-\mbox{\url{http://www.latex-project.org/code/experimental/}}.
-
-Since then a very large proportion of the The Team's efforts have been
-diverted to provide the core author team for TLC2, which provides
-over 1000 pages of carefully researched and tested documentation of
-many aspects of the vast world of \LaTeX{} related software that
-was developed over that same time period and that continues
-to grow and improve prodigiously.
-
-Completion of that task \ldots\ until TLC3!! \ldots\ presents the
-possibility of getting back to this more exciting development work,
-or even to more radical work on non-\TeX{}-based models and
-implementations.
-
-Of course, any such ideas are predicated on our ability to organise
-(with you, we hope) an efficient\newline
-but responsive maintenance and support system\newline
-for Standard \LaTeX{}.
-
-\end{document}