The LaTeX project
The LaTeX project team (see http://www.latex-project.org/latex3.html)
is a small group of volunteers whose aim is
to produce a major new document processing system based on the
principles pioneered by Leslie Lamport in the current LaTeX. The
new system is (provisionally) called LaTeX3; it
will remain freely available and it will be fully documented at
all levels.
The LaTeX team’s first product (LaTeX2e) was delivered in 1994
(it’s now properly called “LaTeX”, since no other version is current).
LaTeX2e was intended as a consolidation exercise, unifying several
sub-variants of LaTeX while changing nothing whose change wasn’t
absolutely necessary. This has permitted the team to support a single
version of LaTeX, in parallel with development of LaTeX3.
Some of the older discussion papers about directions for LaTeX3 are
to be found on CTAN; other (published) articles are to be
found on the project web site
(http://www.latex-project.org/papers/), as is some of the
project’s experimental code
(see http://www.latex-project.org/code.html, which allows you to
read the project’s source repository); a recent snapshot of two major
collections from the code, expl3 and xpackages,
are available. Contributed code, such as keys3 (for
key-value argument decoding) and numparse3 (for number
processing) are available in the CTAN ‘LaTeX experimental’ tree.
You can
participate in discussions of the future of LaTeX through the
mailing list latex-l
. Subscribe to the list by sending a
message ‘subscribe latex-l <your name>
’ to
listserv@urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de
- expl3 bundle
- macros/latex/contrib/expl3 (or browse the directory)
- keys3.sty
- macros/latex/exptl/keys3 (or browse the directory)
- LaTeX project publications
- info/ltx3pub (or browse the directory)
- xpackages bundle
- macros/latex/contrib/xpackages (or browse the directory)
This question on the Web: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=LaTeX3