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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hi. Please forgive an impertinent question,
but it seems important to ask.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I am a blind computer user, so I especially love
the concept of separating a document's content from its typesetting. With
WYSIWYG editors I have to go on faith that they're doing what I want, because I
can't see the formatting on-screen. Only the text of my documents is read
aloud to me by my screen reading software.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>With LaTeX, the difficulty is that we have to use
countless different 'packages' to get the output we want. It feels very
patched together at this point. So few options are available with the core
software that it's necessary to install countless patches on top of it, all
written by different people, and not tested together. The element of faith
comes back in that way, and once again I'm never sure what output I'll
get.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>According to the LaTeX Wikipedia page, LaTeX3 has
been in development for nearly twenty years. <A
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX#Versions">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX#Versions</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Is this development really still taking place, or
should LaTeX users just resign themselves to using more and more patches as
years go by?</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>