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% \iffalse meta-comment
%
-% Copyright (C) 1993-2019
+% Copyright (C) 1993-2020
% The LaTeX3 Project and any individual authors listed elsewhere
-% in this file.
-%
+% in this file.
+%
% This file is part of the LaTeX base system.
% -------------------------------------------
-%
+%
% It may be distributed and/or modified under the
% conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c
% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
% The latest version of this license is in
% http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
-% and version 1.3c or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX
+% and version 1.3c or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX
% version 2008 or later.
-%
+%
% This file has the LPPL maintenance status "maintained".
-%
+%
% The list of all files belonging to the LaTeX base distribution is
% given in the file `manifest.txt'. See also `legal.txt' for additional
% information.
-%
-% The list of derived (unpacked) files belonging to the distribution
-% and covered by LPPL is defined by the unpacking scripts (with
+%
+% The list of derived (unpacked) files belonging to the distribution
+% and covered by LPPL is defined by the unpacking scripts (with
% extension .ins) which are part of the distribution.
-%
+%
% \fi
% Filename: ltnews01.tex
-
+
% This is issue 1 of LaTeX News.
\documentclass
% [type1fonts]
{ltnews}
-
+
\publicationmonth{June}
\publicationyear{1994}
\publicationissue{1}
-
+
\begin{document}
-
+
\maketitle
-
+
\section{Welcome to \LaTeXNews}
-
-An issue of \emph{\LaTeXNews} will accompany every future release of
-\LaTeX. It will tell you about important events, such as major bug
+
+An issue of \emph{\LaTeXNews} will accompany every future release of
+\LaTeX. It will tell you about important events, such as major bug
fixes, newly available packages, or any other \LaTeX{} news.
-
+
\section{\LaTeXe---the new \LaTeX{} release}
-
+
The most important news is the release of \LaTeXe, the new version of
the \LaTeX{} software. This version has better support for fonts,
graphics and colour, and will be actively maintained by the \LaTeX3
-project team. Upgrades will be issued every six months, in June and
+project team. Upgrades will be issued every six months, in June and
December.
-
+
\section{Why a new \LaTeX?}
-
+
Over the years many extensions have been developed for \LaTeX. This
is, of course, a sure sign of its continuing popularity but it has had
one unfortunate result: incompatible \LaTeX{} formats came into use at
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ different sites. Thus, to process documents from various places, a
site maintainer was forced to keep \LaTeX{} (with and without \NFSS),
\SLiTeX, \AmSLaTeX, and so on. In addition, when looking at a source
file it was not always clear for which format the document was written.
-
+
To put an end to this unsatisfactory
situation a new release of \LaTeX{} was produced.
It brings all such extensions back under a single format and thus
@@ -73,15 +73,15 @@ prevents the proliferation of mutually incompatible dialects of
\LaTeX~2.09. The new release was available for several months as a
test version, and the final release of 1~June officially
replaces the old version.
-
+
\section{Processing documents with \LaTeXe}
-
+
Documents written for \LaTeX~2.09 will
still be read by \LaTeXe. Any such document is run in
\emph{\LaTeX~2.09 compatibility mode}.
-
-Unfortunately, compatibility mode comes with a price: it can run
-up to 50\% slower than \LaTeX~2.09 did. If you want to run your document
+
+Unfortunately, compatibility mode comes with a price: it can run
+up to 50\% slower than \LaTeX~2.09 did. If you want to run your document
in the faster \emph{native mode}, you should try replacing the line:
\begin{verbatim}
\documentstyle[<options>,<packages>]{<class>}
@@ -91,17 +91,17 @@ with:
\documentclass[<options>]{<class>}
\usepackage{latexsym,<packages>}
\end{verbatim}
-Unfortunately, this will not always work, because some \LaTeX~2.09
-packages will only work in \LaTeXe{} compatibility mode. You should find
+Unfortunately, this will not always work, because some \LaTeX~2.09
+packages will only work in \LaTeXe{} compatibility mode. You should find
out if there is a \LaTeXe{} version of the package available.
-
-\LaTeXe{} native mode also gives access to the new features of \LaTeXe,
+
+\LaTeXe{} native mode also gives access to the new features of \LaTeXe,
described in \emph{\LaTeXe{} for authors}.
-
+
\section{New packages}
-
-\LaTeXe{} has much better support for graphics, colour, fonts, and
-multi-lingual typesetting. The following software should be available
+
+\LaTeXe{} has much better support for graphics, colour, fonts, and
+multi-lingual typesetting. The following software should be available
from the distributor who brought you \LaTeXe:
\begin{citations}
@@ -112,12 +112,12 @@ from the distributor who brought you \LaTeXe:
\item[psnfss] for using Type~1 fonts.
\item[tools] other packages by the \LaTeX3 team.
\end{citations}
-The packages come with full documentation, and are also described in
-\emph{\LaTeX: A Document Processing System} or
+The packages come with full documentation, and are also described in
+\emph{\LaTeX: A Document Processing System} or
\emph{The \LaTeX{} Companion}.
-
+
\section{Further information}
-
+
More information about \LaTeXe{} is to be found in:
\begin{citations}
@@ -126,11 +126,11 @@ More information about \LaTeXe{} is to be found in:
\item[The \LaTeX{} Companion]
Goossens, Mittelbach and Samarin, \AW, 1994.
\end{citations}
-The \LaTeX{} distribution comes with documentation on the new features of
+The \LaTeX{} distribution comes with documentation on the new features of
\LaTeX:
\begin{citations}
-\item[\LaTeXe{} for authors]
+\item[\LaTeXe{} for authors]
describes the new features of \LaTeX{} documents,
in the file \verb|usrguide.tex|.
\item[\LaTeXe{} for class and package writers]
@@ -141,12 +141,9 @@ The \LaTeX{} distribution comes with documentation on the new features of
class and package writers,
in the file \verb|fntguide.tex|.
\end{citations}
-For more information on \TeX{} and \LaTeX, get in touch with your local
-\TeX{} Users Group, or the international \TeX{} Users Group,
-P.~O.~Box~869, Santa~Barbara, CA~93102-0869, USA, Fax:~+1~805~963~8358,
+For more information on \TeX{} and \LaTeX, get in touch with your local
+\TeX{} Users Group, or the international \TeX{} Users Group,
+P.~O.~Box~869, Santa~Barbara, CA~93102-0869, USA, Fax:~+1~805~963~8358,
EMail:~tug@tug.org.
-
-\end{document}
-
-
+\end{document}