> Well, LaTeX3 was sort of what you describe, but has been dropped It depends on your perspective, since you could similarly argue that it's already here [0] [

> Well, LaTeX3 was sort of what you describe, but has been dropped It depends on your perspective, since you could similarly argue that it's already here [0] [1]. > I've always held that someone needs to put together a templated version where quite a large number of options are available, but commented out, so that one could work up a version of a document by just uncommenting the appropriate lines You can Google "LaTeX templates" and get tons of results; the problem is that most LaTeX templates are terrible, probably because making one that is general-purpose, robust, and gives high-quality output is really hard. But theses are probably one the most common reasons for people to use LaTeX, and there are already hundreds of options available on CTAN [2]. [0]: https://www.texdev.net/2024/11/11/the-mythical-latex3 https://www.texdev.net/2024/11/11/the-mythical-latex3 [1]: https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb44-1/tb136mitt-history.pdf#page=5 https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb44-1/tb136mitt-history.pdf#page=5 [2]: https://www.ctan.org/topic/dissertation https://www.ctan.org/topic/dissertation