Phillip Helbig writes: > Do the `people in the LaTeX 3 project' get paid directly for their work? > Or is it a `spare-time' effort? If the latter, the fact that they get > royalties keeps them from having to work more elsewhere (assuming that > they are not independently wealthy) presumably aids the project by > allowing them to work on it. for the record: half of the LaTeX Companion royalties (and half of the royalties of its translations in German, Japanese, and Russian) are contributed by the authors (i.e. Michel Goossens, Alexander Samarin and me) to the LaTeX3 fund a substancial amount of the royalties of the LaTeX Manual by Leslie Lamport are contributed to that fund. the other books in the ttct series, eg the LaTeX Graphics Companion and the LaTeX Web Companion do not directly contribute to the fund (this was a plain honnest mistake on Robin's end and i'm sure that there was no intention whatsoever to be deceptive) --- as an aside my work as an editor for the series also benefited the fund as Addison-Wesley contributed a substancial amount to it after me taking on this work. people on the project do not get paid for their work other than indicated by David, e.g., by getting some of their direct expenses for travelling payed. As for myself, I'm working 4 days in industry (i.e on a payed job) having dedicated the fifth day (as well as many nights and weekends) to an "expensive hobby" called supporting and developing LaTeX. The royalties for the books that directly go to me do not cover the expenses but the smooth the gap between a five and a four day contract so that i could make that decision. So in that sense the royalties for the Graphics Companion do indeed support the LaTeX3 development. frank