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From: monardo@renoir.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP
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Subject: Common Tex 2.1
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Date: Fri, 8-May-87 01:28:52 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  8 01:28:52 1987
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Common TeX Ver 2.1 will be sent to beta test sites next week.
The Metafont translation has been done much more cleanly
than the TeX translation and I have incorporated as many
of these improvements to TeX as possible. Most importanly
I had a few months to review the original and this release
reflects that:

I no longer use uppercase for attribute macros.
I no longer use outer/inner or void for that matter.
I no longer use Pascal-like declarations.
I handle strings better.
A few bug fixes.

Due to the effort of the Metafont translation and my
regular duties, I wont promise perfection. But I am
very happy with the program. I believe it passes the
Trip test and I believe there are no bugs that would cause
incorrect processing of any user document.

Give me a week to do some first ports and then please
make an effort to get ver 2.1. I want to retire ver 2.0.
Look for it after the middle of May.

	pat