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Date:         Wed, 2 Feb 1994 11:15:26 +0000
From: Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@SC>
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Subject:      Re: Subject: AmS-LaTeX with 2e
Status: R

Mike Piff writes regarding the renaming of \mediumseries and
\normalshape:

 > Let's have a tradition in LaTeX of re-naming everything every couple of
 > years. We all like editing our files regularly, don't we?

I find this remark extremely besides the point. Let me note that

- the original commands were introduced in NFSS2 which is beta
  software,

- I'm not aware of any files using these two commands, except those
  shipped with NFSS2.

After having spent the last months with getting the LaTeX2e software
ready for the world, I can live without remarks like the one quoted
above. For quite some time now, I feel more and more sympathy for
Leslie Lamport's attitude in answering questions.

Speaking for me, and neither for the programming team nor for the
LaTeX3 project,

  Rainer Schoepf