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Date:         Wed, 04 Jul 90 11:14:10 CET
From: Rainer Schoepf <BK4@DHDURZ1.bitnet>
Organization: Inst. f. Theor. Physik d. Univ. Heidelberg
Subject:      Beware of the Second System Syndrome (not only regarding liats)
To: LaTeX discussion list <LATEX-L@DHDURZ1.uucp>
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Friends,

even with current LaTeX, i.e. without the pending re-implementation
of the list environment stuff it is simple to provide Don's sequential
environment.  Here my opinion is similar to Leslie's: there's no use
in adding yet another environment needed only by a part of the users
when it is easy to add it for the user himself.

Which brings me to the point raised in the subject line: we must not
produce a system that is considerably larger than present LaTeX, or
we will have been working in vain.  Trying to put all and everything
into this new implementation will make it unusable.

Let's concentrate on the parts of the kernel that need improvement:
sectioning, table of contents (...), floats (output routine),...

Rainer