Barbara Beeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > that would make us rather unhappy as well, but > if it happens, it can't be helped. our staff is > just too small and too overwhelmed with production > deadlines to be able to devote the time solely to > getting the new release of ams-latex ready.
I understand and hope that our release team will have understanding, too. > our hope is that, barring disasters, the update > of ams-latex -- all of it -- will be ready by > the end of the calendar year. (but unfortunately, > we must allow for disasters; this past year has > been spent migrating book and journal production > from vms to unix, involving retraining of the > entire editorial and production staff. >From what I know from vms, migrating non-geek staff who's used to the old ways for their whole computer-aware lifetime should be quite hard... Happy TeXing, Frank -- Frank Küster Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)