Outline

This project has been established to produce a new version of LATEX, the widely-used and highly-acclaimed document preparation system. The new system will greatly increase the range of documents which can be processed and will provide a flexible interface for typographic designers to easily specify the formatting of a class of documents.

The LATEX3 Project Team is a small group of volunteers whose aim is to produce this major new document processing system based on the principles pioneered by Leslie Lamport in the current LATEX.

The major work of the team during 1994 was the release and maintenance of the new standard version of LATEX: the one you have just acquired. They will continue to maintain this system, releasing updated versions every six months and recording these activities in the LATEX bugs database (see below).