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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’s first product (LaTeX2e) was delivered in 1994
(it’s now properly called “LaTeX”, 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’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’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’s source repository). You can
participate in discussions of the future of LaTeX through the
mailing list <code>latex-l</code>. Subscribe to the list by sending a
message ‘<code>subscribe latex-l <<em>your name</em>></code>’ to
<a href="mailto:listserv@urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de"><i>listserv@urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de</i></a>
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<dt><tt><i>LaTeX project publications</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/ltx3pub.zip">info/ltx3pub</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/ltx3pub.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/ltx3pub/">browse</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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