The L A TEX 3 Project

This article describes the motivation, achievements and future of the LATEX3 Project∗, which was established to produce a new version of LATEX, the widelyused and highly-acclaimed document preparation system. It also describes how you can help us to achieve our aims. Note for Archive maintainers, Authors, Publishers and Distributors: The project team request that, whenever possible, you include this article in any of the following: • Books about TEX and LATEX. • Instructions for authors on using LATEX. • The printed documentation of CD-ROM collections that contain LATEX. • On-line collections that include a significant proportion of documents encoded in LATEX.