X-VM-VHeader: ("Date:" "Resent-Date:" "From:" "Sender:" "Resent-From" "Originally-From:" "Originally-To:" "To:" "Apparently-To:" "Cc:" "Subject:" "Cron:") nil X-VM-Bookmark: 4 X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1520" "Wed" "1" "December" "93" "18:45:20" "+0100" "Frank Mittelbach" "MITTELBACH@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE" nil "43" "Re: manual provided?" "^Date:" nil nil "12"]) Return-Path: Received: from sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (mailserv) by dagobert.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0/24.6.93) id AA27051; Wed, 1 Dec 93 18:57:37 +0100 Received: from vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (vm.hd-net.uni-heidelberg.de) by sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0-sc/03.06.93) id AA19545; Wed, 1 Dec 93 18:57:32 +0100 Message-Id: <9312011757.AA19545@sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE> Received: from DHDURZ1 by vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 4197; Wed, 01 Dec 93 18:55:38 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 9071; Wed, 01 Dec 93 18:55:27 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 9069; Wed, 01 Dec 93 18:55:24 CET Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Wed, 1 Dec 93 18:45:20 +0100 From: Frank Mittelbach Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple Recipients of Subject: Re: manual provided? Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1193 > Subj: Manual provided? > Just a thought on the impending release: > > Will the LaTeX 2e distribution come with a manual? > I hope so! does the current latex distribution come with a manual? > Frank: my instinct tells me that because Addison-Wesley > will be publishing your book, they won't let you > distribute the source (so that we can all print our > own copy). Am I right? i have no idea. but i wouldn't distribute it even if they would let me. is it too much to ask to buy our own copy if you get everything else for free? (including all the time spend on preparing the stuff?) besides, half of the royalties for the book go directly into the latex3 project and this fund really needs money. > If so, what sort of documentation can we expect? you can expect something along the level of the current nfss2 documentation that should get you running. > In the meantime, would someone please provide a list > of all the new features (commands & what they do)? what do you think are we currently trying to do? > I would like to link the installation of the software > with a seminar to let my users know what they're letting > themselves in for. If I have this information *before* > the release I will be able to prepare a talk beforehand, > so that the users can get started right away. as always, writing up documentation means finding the last number of tiny holes in the software and therefore the documentation as well as the software isn't ready yet and will be ready at the same time. frank