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I had actually intended my question to also start a discussion
on the future of slide support (i.e. in LaTeX3).  Sorry for
not being more explicit.

I had been a faithful SliTeX user for a few years, then I
switched to FoilTeX.  But now I guess I expect better
things from 2e (and therefore LaTeX3).

On looking at slides.dtx I see that there has been a lot of
effort put in to making it all work.  The modern colour support
(via the `color' package) is very much appreciated.  At the
least I can print out on a b/w printer and get greys.
(But I had this with FoilTeX.)

But I wonder if we could move towards incorporating some more
of the good features of FoilTeX and seminar.  I think
we have learned a number of lessons from these packages
(cf. the colour support I mentioned, which came about
because of the co\"operation of FoilTeX's authors and
Tom Rokicki) that could be fed back into the slides class.

Richard.