Stroberrie-Psycho: LaTeX project site → Articles

Below you will find links to Portable Document Format (PDF) versions of various articles published by the LaTeX3 project. This list is not comprehensive and we are working on extending it as time permits.

TUG 2008 conference

Frank Mittelbach: Windows of opportunity: A (biased) personal history of two decades of LaTeX development — Are there lessons to be learned?
Morten Høgholm: The galley Module or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Whatsit

TUG 2007 conference

Morten Høgholm: LaTeX3 project update
Morten Høgholm: The breqn package: revised and revived
Chris Rowley: Vistas for TeX

pdfTeX workshop 2005/09/24-26

HTML presentation of the material from the September 2005 pdfTeX workshop between Thanh The Han, Morten Høgholm, and Frank Mittelbach. The main topic of the workshop was grid typesetting. The material is available both for on-line browsing and download as a zip file (1364 kB).

EuroTeX 2005 notes

HTML presentation of the work done by the LaTeX project team during EuroTeX 2005. It is available both for on-line browsing and download as a zip file (923 kB).

Some note on templates

Unpublished paper, 2001
Keywords: LaTeX3, designer-interface, evaluation report

A discussion by Lars Hellström of the current implementation of the concept of templates. This paper is scheduled for publication in TUGboat.

Formatting documents with floats – A new algorithm for LATEX2e

Published paper, 2000
Keywords: LaTeX3, page makeup, models, concepts, proto-types

At the GUTenberg meeting in Toulouse, Frank presented a paper about a new output routine that is intended to enhance the way LaTeX deals with floating objects in multicolumn environments.

TUG99 talk

Published paper, 1999
Keywords: LaTeX3, models, concepts, user-interface, designer-interface, proto-types

The talk given by project team members at the TUG conference in Vancouver on models for user-level interfaces, designer-level interfaces in LaTeX3. Prototype implementations are in Experimental code.

Notes on Oldenburg e-TeX/LaTeX3/ConTeXt meeting and

Ideas for e-TeX/NTS

Meeting notes, 1998
Keywords: TeX extensions, LaTeX3

Early in 1998 a meeting was held between the e-TeX project and the LaTeX3 project. From this meeting we made some notes. A separate topic during the meeting was the improvement of TeX's math typesetting.

Default docstrip headers

Published paper, 1998
Keywords: documentation of LaTeX2e packages

An article about docstrip headers appeared in TUGboat volume 19, number 2. It describes a change in the wording of the default headers and gives some hints on how to have your own specific headers on your files.

A regression test suite for LaTeX2e

Published paper, 1997
Keywords: maintaining LaTeX2e

An article describing the regression test suite that has been built for LaTeX over the past years. It describes some of the history and outlines the results we have had from it.

The LaTeX3 Programming Language—A syntax proposal for TeX macro programming

Published paper, 1997
Keywords: general research, proposed model for LaTeX programming

An article giving a brief overview of the first release of expl3: a proposed LaTeX3 programming language. The article appeared in TUGboat volume 18, number 4. For the current state of the LaTeX3 programming language, please see the documentation in the CTAN distribution of expl3.

Language information in structured documents: a model for mark-up and rendering

Published paper, 1997
Keywords: general research, proposed model for LaTeX (current and future version)

At a TUG conference a new model is presented for dealing with language information in structured documents. The article appeared in the conference proceedings, TUGboat volume 18, number 3.

Application-independent representation of text for document processing – will Unicode suffice?