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Mike Piff brought up the subject of \limits on various operators:

> I was surprised to find recently that \max, \min, \lim, \limsup, etc
> are set in plain TeX and LaTeX without limits in text maths mode.
> Not having been on an analysis course for some years, I was unaware of
> this fact until now.

as it turned out by evidence of subsequened mails (not too surprising,
I think) again there are a lot of conventions around and thus as in so
many cases ltx can only provide an example (or more than one?) setup.
But the main goal has to be for ltx3 to make the customisation
straight forward. I hope that this will be achieved.

> On another point, in NFSS the private command \operator@font is used
> in operators. Could I suggest that a PUBLIC command be used, so that
> the casual user can easily define his own operators?
> (I am assuming that LaTeX3 will not appear for some considerable time,
> eg, 2 years.)

shortly (end of january) nfss release 2 will go into public beta
testing and in this release we will take care of such issues.

Frank