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Sat, 12 Dec 1998 17:30:58 +0100
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William F. Hammond wrote --

> I agree that LaTeX is defined by Lamport's book, 2nd edition.
>
> The 2nd edition does call for the use of \documentclass.

Some of us, including Leslie, would like very soon to make anything using
\documentstyle, etc so non-portable that it is is no longer processable.

David Carlisle wrote --

> but most by now are using 2e to process those documents.

Such a statement is surely as difficult to support as it is to
estimate the number of users of a package?

But perhaps he has been told this by MI5?


chris

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