Sebastian is essentialy correct in his analysis of the history and current status wrt the LaTeX kernel and required: > I think its more fundamental than that, as discussed as far back as > 1993 - hyperref does not fit into the model of LaTeX properly, and > rides roigh-shod over LaTeX innards when it feels like it. To add it > to "required" would imply that the kernel team felt that it reliably > collaborated with kernel packages, which would simply be untrue. > > To do it right, bits of LaTeX need a rewrite, taking into account the > needs of hyperref. This is what Context has done, of course, > integrating the stuff into the kernel. > What we have not done yet, due to `stafff shortages', is any detailed work on building the requirements of multi-use documents (via hyperef or any other pakage) into the new experimental work that I am sure you are all right now busily testing. chris