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David Carlisle
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I have been using LaTeX since 1987 or thereabouts and have been on the LaTeX3 team since before we released LaTeX2e. I also show up in related fields, I'm an editor of the MathML spec for example.

I am employed by NAG Ltd, but any opinions expressed here are personal.

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