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From: Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:16:22 +0000
Subject: latex core update from latex-tds (27aug06)

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+% \iffalse meta-comment
+%
+% Copyright 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
+% The LaTeX3 Project and any individual authors listed elsewhere
+% 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 
+% version 2005/12/01 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 
+% 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}
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