[texhax] Latex: dumbing down? (fwd)

[Reinhard Kotucha]

Michael Barr <mbarr at math.mcgill.ca> wrote:

  > Does the latex 3 team intend to try to make it impossible to mix
  > plain and latex code?  Will they go beyond deprecation and get
  > into forbidding.

AFAIK, yes.  There is experimental LaTeX 3 code already on CTAN.

Frank Mittelbach told me that LaTeX 3 will most likely _not_ be
compatible with LaTeX2e.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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