On 09/03/2011 17:09, Frank Mittelbach wrote: > I'm not so sure about your complaint about meaningless line-after-line > \usepackages, though. I was and is a simple interface but at least it ended up > with a clean specifcation what that particular 2e document needed. > > But yes, why not something better ... but then first step would be to come up > with suggestions what a "better" interface would be Looking long-term, the idea (at least to me) is that a lot of stuff for LaTeX3 should be in the kernel anyway. So a lot of the current \usepackage stuff would be covered by built-in code or at least options. -- Joseph Wright