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# The LATEX3 Project

©1995-1999 Frank Mittelbach and Chris Rowley

12 January 1999

### Abstract:

This article describes the motivation, achievements and future of the LATEX3 Project, which was established to produce a new version of LATEX, the widely-used and highly-acclaimed document preparation system. It also describes how you can help us to achieve our aims.
For Archive maintainers, Authors, Publishers and Distributors:
The project team request that, whenever possible, you include this article in any of the following:

- Books about TEX and LATEX.
- Instructions for authors on using LATEX.
- The printed documentation of CD-ROM collections that contain LATEX.
- On-line collections that include a significant proportion of documents encoded in LATEX.

- Outline
- Background
- Motivation
- Description
- LATEX documentation
- The LATEX3 Project Fund
- Contacts and information
- About this document ...