> As we need things, they are added. Of course, others should feel free to > write things and send them along :-) (I have some more serious thoughts > on that, but need to work some other items through yet. Perhaps next > month if I work hard at it.) > >> I was thinking about this, but that would go too far. At least for a >> short-term test version, that would be too much packages. >> For long-term considerations, they would be nice to have in the format – >> but this would blow up the size strongly, wouldn't it? We could imagine >> a "plain LaTeX" format without them and a "bloated LaTeX" including … ;) 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. >>> Fixltx2e has already been mentioned and would probably the first >>> candidate for inclusion in the format. >> >> Yes. > > For the moment, I think LaTeX3 'release' packages + fontspec + fixltx2e > will do :-) (Long-term I would like to imagine most of the material > listed above being part of LaTeX3. However, that is a way off and we > should probably not overdo things just at the moment.) Perhaps the {trace} package (although it seems included in l3chk, but not loaded by expl3?)? -- Bruno Le Floch