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Subject:      Re: What is "base" LaTeX
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Chris Rowley writes:
 > > am curious to hear what your professional bodies have done to help you
 > > get your 10pt CM PDF documents up.
 >
 > Put money into such things as a system that produces them and makes
 > them (relatively freely) acessible.  And, more recently, putting a
again, one would like to hear chapter and verse on this. i am by
nature suspicious, and cannot offhand think of much that a
`professional body' has done, unless you refer to the AMS? are they a
professional body? in this capacity i classify them simply as a publisher.

who makes TeX accessible? `professional bodies'? like h@ll they do.

 > huge (questionably so???) effort into producing character sets and
 > glyph sets and ... etc etc.  OK, I know that some publishers are also
again, apart from the AMS, whatever do you have in mind? w

sebastian