L^ATEX3--The long-term future of L^ATEX

L^ATEX2_e is the consolidation step in a comprehensive reimplementation of the L^ATEX system. The next major release of L^ATEX will be L^ATEX3, which will include a radical overhaul of the document designers' and package writers' interface to L^ATEX. L^ATEX3 is a long-term research project but, until it is completed, the project team are committed to the active maintenance of L^ATEX2_e. Thus the experience gained from the production and maintenance of L^ATEX2_e will be a major influence on the design of L^ATEX3. A brief description of the project can be found in the document ltx3info.tex.

If you would like to support the project then you are welcome to send donations to the L^ATEX3 Project Fund; this has been set up to help the research team by financing various expenses associated with this voluntary work of maintaining the current L^ATEX and developing L^ATEX3. The fund is administered by The TEX Users Group and by various local user groups. Information about making donations and joining these groups is available from:

  TEX Users Group, P.O. Box 1239, Three Rivers, CA 93271-1239, USA
Fax: +1 209 561 4584 Email: tug@mail.tug.org UK TUG, 1 Eymore Close, Selly Oak, Birmingham B29 4LB, UK
Fax: +44 121 476 2159 Email: uktug-enquiries@tex.ac.uk

Articles covering aspects of the L^ATEX3 project are available for anonymous ftp from the Comprehensive TEX Archive, in the directory:

  tex-archive/info/ltx3pub

The file ltx3pub.bib in that directory contains an abstract of each of the files.