Bruno Le Floch <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > A plea for slow computers: I don't know how much having a format will > accelerate loading, but I guess that adding tikz would be too much. in the case of pgf/tikz, the acceleration will be enormous, i would imagine. (i don't do pictures any more, but the pgf/tikz tree on the archive makes me feel slightly faint.) however, there _is_ mylatexformat, and anyone may build their own format for their own work. a latex3 format is one thing. a latex3 format that's good for everyone's requirements is going to take as long as context has since it started, i would guess. personally, i wouldn't add anything to it, beyond the replacements for the functionality of current latex (excepting, of course, the extensions -- coffins, most recently -- that we discuss here. so i would be sympathetic to fontspec and unicode-math, but sceptical of many other things that have been suggested here. > Perhaps the {trace} package (although it seems included in l3chk, but > not loaded by expl3?)? however, i _can_ see the rationale of that... robin