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Subject:      Re: What is "base" LaTeX
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At 09:30 +0000 1998/12/01, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

>>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

There is also SIAM.  See for example:

> The PostScript Type 1 implementation of the Computer Modern and AMSFonts
> produced by and previously distributed by Blue Sky Research and Y&Y, Inc.,
> are now freely available for general use.  This has been accomplished through
> the cooperation of a consortium of scientific publishers with
> Blue Sky Research and Y&Y. Members of this consortium include:

 >   Elsevier Science
 >   IBM Corporation
 >   Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
 >   Springer-Verlag
 >   American Mathematical Society (AMS)

> ...