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From: smithda@cpsvax.cps.msu.edu (J. Daniel Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: TeX/LaTeX are not stagnant! (was Re: Help me defend LaTeX)
Keywords: TeX, LaTeX, technical writing
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Date: 25 Oct 89 02:22:25 GMT
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In article <2601@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> dhosek@jarthur.UUCP (D.A. Hosek) writes:
>In article <71781@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Gary Perlman <perlman@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>> while systems like troff and TeX, which have a far smaller market,
>>are stangnant.
>
>Actually, TeX and LaTeX are not stagnant; Don Knuth announced at the TUG
>meeting that he would be making some rather dramatic changes to TeX (TeX 3.0
>is currently in alpha test, and the 17th printing of the TeXbook will 
Any insights as to what kind of "dramatic changes to TeX" will be
made?  I thought TeX "frozen" and that changes would no longer be
made.  This is the first I've heard of this....does anyone have any
more details????

   Dan
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