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\title{It's not a bird, it's not plain, it's \ldots\\
\mbox{}\hfill \ldots\ \LaTeXe---the Preliminary Test Release.}
\author[The \protect\LaTeX3 team]{For the \LaTeX3 Project:\\
Johannes Braams\\
David Carlisle\\
Alan Jeffrey\\
Frank Mittelbach\\
Chris Rowley\\
Rainer Sch\"opf}

\begin{article}

Just before Christmas the new release of LaTeX was made available
for testing.  \LaTeXe\ is the new standard version of
\LaTeX---prepared and supported by the \LaTeX3 project team.  It is
upwardly compatible with \LaTeX\ 2.09 documents, but contains new
features.

These are described in a new edition of \emph{\LaTeX: A Document Preparation
System} by Leslie Lamport (to appear during 1994) and \emph{The \LaTeX\
Companion} by Goossens, Mittelbach and Samarin, both published by
Addison-Wesley.

[There is also a brief overview of them in this publication....????]

\LaTeXe will be distributed twice a year but his distribution is a
preliminary test release and, as such, it does not contain all of the
files and features that will be part of the full release.  In
particular, it does not contain the planned extensions in the area of
graphics inclusion.

The first full release will be available in Spring 1994.

Since this is a test release please get it {\em and test it}\ldots
on as many different systems as possible!

LaTeX2e can be retrieved by anonymous ftp from the CTAN archives:

\begin{ttquote}
  \begin{tabular}{ll}
   ftp.tex.ac.uk        &amp; /tex-archive/macros/latex/distribs/latex2e-test\\
   ftp.shsu.edu         &amp; /tex-archive/macros/latex/distribs/latex2e-test\\
   ftp.uni-stuttgart.de &amp; /tex-archive/macros/latex/distribs/latex2e-test
  \end{tabular}
\end{ttquote}
  
Please report any problems with \LaTeXe\ by using the report-generating
program latexbug.tex, included in the \LaTeXe\ distribution.  Error
reports can be sent to the following mail address:

\begin{ttquote}
   latex-bugs@rus.uni-stuttgart.de
\end{ttquote}

\end{article}
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