Paul Taylor writes: (2) if you are writing about the foundations of the theory of braids, by definition you are doing something which is novel, peculiar and not main-stream, I take exception to this - one has only to look at (e.g.) New Developments in the Theory of Knots, a 900-page reprint volume, to see that while this work may be novel (it took off in '85) and may be peculiar (that's a matter of taste), it is very much mainstream. One might argue that this is not category theory, but in fact the most significant recent applications of category theory to mathematical physics (my field) are connected with braids and the like. Whether LaTeX 3 should attempt to take this fact into account is of course another question; I would *hope* it would, but it might be too much of a bother. John Baez +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++