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Richard Hensh writes:

 > BTW, there has been some discussion about the Latex Companion in ctt.
 > Is a revised edition in the works? ;->

yes and no. i view the current work as outline in the talk given in Vancouver
the first priority since if these interfaces are available and well-received
they will alter the need for certain packages and also alter change what needs
to be explained about headings/toc entries etc in the companion revision.

so my current plan is to start working on a revision seriously not earlier
than late 2000

frank

ps: this is a resent of that post because it seems that my mail account was
slightly screwed up the last two days