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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 +% extension .ins) which are part of the distribution. +% +% \fi +% Filename: ltnews16.tex +% +% This is issue 16 of LaTeX News. + +\documentclass +% [lw35fonts] % uncomment this line to get Palatino + {ltnews}[2004/02/28] + +% \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} + +\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} |