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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label LaTeX3</title>
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<h3>The LaTeX project</h3>
<p/>The LaTeX project team (see <a href="http://www.latex-project.org/latex3.html">http://www.latex-project.org/latex3.html</a>)
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.
<p/>The LaTeX team&rsquo;s first product (LaTeX2e) was delivered in 1994
(it&rsquo;s now properly called &ldquo;LaTeX&rdquo;, since no other version is current).
<p/>LaTeX2e was intended as a consolidation exercise, unifying several
sub-variants of LaTeX while changing nothing whose change wasn&rsquo;t
absolutely necessary.  This has permitted the team to support a single
version of LaTeX, in parallel with development of LaTeX3.
<p/>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 (<a href="http://www.latex-project.org/papers/">http://www.latex-project.org/papers/</a>),
as is some of the project&rsquo;s experimental code (see
<a href="http://www.latex-project.org/code.html">http://www.latex-project.org/code.html</a>, which allows you to read
the project&rsquo;s source repository).  Snapshots of two major collections
from the code, <i>expl3</i> (supporting LaTeX3 coding
conventions in a LaTeX2e environment) and and <i>xpackages</i> (a
first cut of a &ldquo;document designer&rsquo;s interface&rdquo;) are available on
CTAN.  Several developers are known to be working on their own
code using <i>expl3</i>, but all 
<p/>Anyone may participate in discussions of the future of LaTeX
through the mailing list <code>latex-l</code>; some development work
(outside the project) is discussed on the list.  Subscribe to the list
by sending a message &lsquo;<code>subscribe latex-l &lt;<em>your name</em>&gt;</code>&rsquo;
to  <a href="mailto:listserv@urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de"><i>listserv@urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de</i></a>
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<dt><tt><i>expl3 bundle</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/expl3.zip">macros/latex/contrib/expl3</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/expl3/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>LaTeX project publications</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/ltx3pub.zip">info/ltx3pub</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/ltx3pub/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>xpackages bundle</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xpackages.zip">macros/latex/contrib/xpackages</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xpackages/">browse the directory</a>)
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<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=LaTeX3">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=LaTeX3</a>
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