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\begin{document}

\title{Some ideas for improving \LaTeX}
\author{David Rhead\\
University of Nottingham\\
{\tt JANET: d.rhead@uk.ac.nottingham.ccc.vme}
}
\date{July 1991}
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\chapter*{Preface}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Preface}

Frank Mittlebach suggested that I might produce some material for
consideration by \LaTeX-people at Dedham.  This document is the result.

My involvement with \LaTeX\ 3.0 \cite{lamport-86,m+s-89} started early
in
1990 when I heard Chris Rowley announce that opinions were invited about
the facilities that should be provided in the new \LaTeX.  Accordingly,
I submitted a \lq\lq wish list'', and have since submitted various
additional ideas.

The present document is an attempt to put these wishes etc.\ together in
one place.  It has been put together in a hurry from various sources.
Generally the main text is based on older material than the appendices:
you may find inconsistencies of detail that I haven't had time to
resolve.
(Frank only gave me two weeks notice!) I've included some extracts from
e-mail in which people were making comments about similar topics.  (My
\lq\lq extracting algorithm'' has been an uneasy compromise between
thinking that I shouldn't confine the document to my own views, and
wondering whether people would want remarks they made in one context
reproduced in another context.  I apologise to anyone whose views I've
omitted/included when I should have included/omitted them.) I realize
that the result is over-long and repetitive, but I don't have time to
think how to cut it down and re-organise it.

In my case, most \lq\lq wishes'' are just particular cases of general
wish \lq\lq that \LaTeX\ would make it easy to produce documents that
conform to the conventions that are usual in traditional publishing'',
since most of the end-users who tell me \lq\lq I don't like the way
\LaTeX\ does this'' are, I think, really saying \lq\lq I'd just like
\LaTeX\ to do things like normal publishers do them'' (either because
they want to pass the result on to a publisher, or simply because
traditional conventions \lq\lq look right'' to them).

I've generally tried to determine \lq\lq traditional publishing
practice'' by consulting the manuals to which a publisher's
copy-editors, designers, and typesetting staff might refer.  I assume
that the {\it Chicago Manual of Style} \cite{chicago-82}, Butcher's {\it
  Copy-editing}, \cite{butcher-81}, McLean's {\it Manual of Typography}
  \cite{mclean-80},
Williamson's {\it Methods of Book Design} \cite{williamson-83} and
Hart's {\it Rules} \cite{hart-83} are representative of such manuals.
Since I assume that \LaTeX\ is, and always will be, intended for
producing formally structured documents rather than for implementing
\lq\lq grid-based designs'', I presume that it is unrealistic to try to
support more than a selection of the features described in books (such
as \cite{miles-87} and \cite{white-88}) that are aimed at the \lq\lq
design for desktop publishing'' market.  However, the classes of
document that are of interest to the Text Encoding Initiative
\cite{tei-90} seem similar to the classes for which \LaTeX\ is intended,
so I assume that the Initiative's views on structure are relevant
(although their objectives are broader than just typesetting).

I'm very aware that it's easier \lq\lq to wish'' than \lq\lq to grant
wishes''.


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\include{l3d002g}         %   {chemistry}

\include{l3d002h}         %   {references}

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