The LaTeX3 Project

©1995-1997 Frank Mittelbach and Chris Rowley

10 May 1997

Abstract:

This article describes the motivation, achievements and future of the LaTeX3 Project, which was established to produce a new version of LaTeX, the widely-used and highly-acclaimed document preparation system. It also describes how you can help us to achieve our aims.

For Archive maintainers, Authors, Publishers and Distributors The project team request that, whenever possible, you include this article in any of the following:

• Books about TeX and LaTeX.
• Instructions for authors on using LaTeX.
• The printed documentation of CD-ROM collections that contain LaTeX.
• On-line collections that include a significant proportion of documents encoded in LaTeX.

• Outline
• Background
• Motivation
• Description
• LaTeX documentation
• The LaTeX3 Project Fund
• Contacts and information
• About this document ...