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