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From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: LaTeX 2.10/3.0
Keywords: LaTeX, Mittlebach, Schoepf
Message-ID: <1990Sep5.010028.14192@maths.tcd.ie>
Date: 5 Sep 90 01:00:28 GMT
References: <8256@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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In <8256@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.) writes:


>Well, for safety's sake, I would recommend that you configure
>your system with oldlfont.sty rather than newlfont.sty; this
>configuration seems to give a decent enough golden mean between
>the old way of doing things and the new.


Wait a moment! How many versions of LaTeX are there going to be?
Isn't the whole point of LaTeX that there is just one version,
and anyone can send a LaTeX file anywhere and get it printed.

Are we going back to the Tower of Babel before LaTeX
when every TeXpert had his own package of macros and output routines,
and you had to spend hours working out what the hell they meant,
and why there was a page with just one letter on it.

Personally, I find LaTeX perfectly adequate as it is.
If a new official version comes along I'll instal it,
as a matter of principle,
but I won't get up early to try it out.

-- 

Timothy Murphy  

e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie