The L^ATEX3 Project

©1995-1999 Frank Mittelbach and Chris Rowley

12 January 1999

Abstract:

This article describes the motivation, achievements and future of the L^ATEX3 Project, which was established to produce a new version of L^ATEX, 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 L^ATEX.
• Instructions for authors on using L^ATEX.
• The printed documentation of CD-ROM collections that contain L^ATEX.
• On-line collections that include a significant proportion of documents encoded in L^ATEX.