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Date:         Tue, 9 Feb 93 15:36:35 CST
From: "George D. Greenwade" <bed_gdg@SHSU.EDU>
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Subject:      Task list update (6.0), new task added with coordinator
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Frank Mittelbach forwarded me a new task which has been added to the
volunteer task list for the LaTeX3 project.  The new task is titled
"Research on the most commonly used LaTeX styles", which Rolf Lindgren
<rolf.lindgren@usit.uio.no> has agreed to coordinate.  As this is a new
task, the task description is appended below my signature.

You can retrieve the updated task list (now at version 6.0) via email by
including:
 SENDME VOL-TASK.TEX
in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu).
For anonymous ftp retrieval, the file is at Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8)
in [FILESERV.VOL-TASK]VOL-TASK.TEX or on pip.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.10) in
the root anonymous ftp directory as vol-task.tex.

Regards,   George
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\task{Research on the most commonly used \LaTeX{} styles}

Even though \LaTeX3 will internally not be fully code-compatible with
\LaTeX{} 2.09, it is highly desirable that a well-written \LaTeX{}
2.09-compatible document can be formatted with \LaTeX3 with little or
no rewriting.  To achieve this, the currently most popular \LaTeX{}
macros will be rewritten for \LaTeX3. But which are the most popular
\LaTeX{} macros?

A questionnaire has been pre-tested and completed. Plans are to
distribute this to $\approx$ 10 sites throughout the world, a fair
amount to each.  This will, hopefully, come close to a real stratified
sample survey.

Volunteers are needed to hand out the form to an unsuspecting group of
\LaTeX{} users, punch the data (fairly easy - we only keep a frequency
count), and mail the frequencies to Rolf Lindgren. He wants the
filled-in forms as well, to be available to others who might want to
do research on \LaTeX{} use.

\timeestimate{1 hour to administer the form, 2-3 hours to process the
competed forms, 1 hour to translate the form if necessary}

\coordinator{28 January 1993}{Rolf Lindgren}\email{rolf.lindgren@usit.uio.no}
\othervolunteers
%\volunteer{NAME}\email{}