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>> Backing David up on this one...  As the LaTeX maintainer here, I know
>> that authors swap LaTeX documents between sites, and they get awfully
>> confused and annoyed if documents format differently on different
>> sites.

I am confident ('though I cannot locate the reference as I write) that
Leslie Lamport has written that this is perfectly acceptable behaviour,
and that LaTeX should be perceived as a document description language
rather than one which carries with it an exact specification of the
final printed output. Can anyone help in locating that reference?

                                        ** Phil.