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author | Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> | 2019-09-02 13:46:59 +0900 |
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committer | Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> | 2019-09-02 13:46:59 +0900 |
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diff --git a/support/auctex/RELEASE-11.89 b/support/auctex/RELEASE-11.89 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..15eb656e1f --- /dev/null +++ b/support/auctex/RELEASE-11.89 @@ -0,0 +1,167 @@ +Release notes for AUCTeX 11.89 with preview-latex +================================================= + +AUCTeX provides by far the most wide-spread and sophisticated +environment for editing LaTeX, TeX, ConTeXt and Texinfo documents with +Emacs or XEmacs. Combined with packages like RefTeX, flyspell and +others it is pretty much without peer as a comprehensive authoring +solution for a large variety of operating system platforms and TeX +distributions. It supports document-dependent completion and syntax +highlighting, easily accessible menus, jumping to error locations in +the source file, a number of editing shortcuts, intelligent +indentation and filling of text during entry, and WYSIWYG previews of +graphical elements like math formulas right in the Emacs source +buffer, by virtue of its preview-latex component. + +One part of the preview-latex subsystem is the central `preview.sty' +file that is independently useful for a number of applications and is +available in unbundled form from CTAN.[1] + +AUCTeX needs volunteers in particular for non-programming tasks: +documentation writing, tutorials, translations, reference material, +sleuth work, testing. + + +New features and fixed bugs in this release +------------------------------------------- + +You can now run all commands needed to compile a document and then +open the viewer with a single command: 'TeX-command-run-all', bound +to 'C-c C-a'. + +Commands such as LaTeX and View can now be executed conveniently on +the current section (or part, chapter, subsection, etc). See +'LaTeX-command-section' and 'LaTeX-command-section-change-level'. + +Forward and backward search with Evince now also work when only a +region of the document is compiled/viewed. + +To open the PDF output file you can now use also PDF Tools, a +document viewer for Emacs. With it, as a plus, forward and +backward search is accurate at word level. + +With new option 'TeX-PDF-via-dvips-ps2pdf' it is possible to +compile a document to DVI and then convert it to PDF using +'dvips'-'ps2pdf' before viewing it. + +New option 'TeX-file-line-error' allows to select file:line:error +style for error messages. + +Indent '\[...\]' math mode as a regular environment by default. + +Now AUCTeX suggests to run 'makeindex' when appropriate. + +'TeX-view-program-list' can contain, as third optional element of +each item, the name of the executable(s) needed to open the viewer. + +'TeX-expand-list' variable has been split into 'TeX-expand-list' +and 'TeX-expand-list-builtin'. Only the former is intended to be +customized by the user, the latter contains built-in expanders. +You might want to keep in 'TeX-expand-list' only new expansion +strings. + +When new option 'TeX-check-engine' is non-nil, before running LaTeX +commands AUCTeX will check whether the correct engine has been set, +based upon known restrictions posed by LaTeX packages. + +Basic support to ConTeXt Mark IV has been added. Users can now +select the Mark version to be used with new option +'ConTeXt-Mark-version', and AUCTeX is able to catch error messages +in the output log of a Mark IV document. + +Support for tons of LaTeX packages has been addedd. + +Numbers of bugs have been fixed, many minor features have been +addedd. + +Requirements +------------ + +It is required that you use at least GNU Emacs 21 or XEmacs 21.4. +XEmacs requires at least version 1.84 of the xemacs-base package +(released on 01/27/2004) or a sumo tarball dated 02/02/2004 or newer +for compiling AUCTeX: please use the XEmacs package system for +upgrading if necessary. + +The preview-latex subsystem requires image support. This is available +with GNU Emacs 21.3 under the X window system. For Windows[2], Mac OS +X (Carbon, Cocoa)[3] or native GTK+ toolkit support, at least version +22.1 of GNU Emacs is required. Emacs 22 and later is the recommended +platform for AUCTeX in general. If you prefer XEmacs, it will work in +version 21.4.10 or later. + +You'll also need a working LaTeX installation and Ghostscript. +dvipng[4] (version 1.4 or later), a very fast DVI converter, can be +used to speed up the conversion. + +Availability +------------ + +AUCTeX can be downloaded in various formats from +<URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/auctex/>. At release time, we provide the +source tarball, a precompiled version for Emacs on Windows, and a +platform-independent XEmacs package file (which you have to install +yourself using XEmacs' own package system, after using it for removing +the previous version of AUCTeX). The easiest way for using AUCTeX, of +course, is using versions of Emacs that already include AUCTeX or a +software package management system for your operating system which +provides you with the latest release. + +The XEmacs package file can be discerned by `pkg' in its name. It is +usually more recent than what gets distributed from XEmacs servers and +as part of the Sumo tarball. + +A separate directory for each release contains some stuff from the +tarball, such as ChangeLog, printable manuals, and a reference sheet. +The download area is mirrored to the directory support/auctex on CTAN. +AUCTeX is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3. + +You'll find more information at the web site of AUCTeX +<URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/>, including its mailing list +addresses. + + +Future development and additional information +--------------------------------------------- + +AUCTeX is proceeding as a GNU project with the long-term intent of +merging it into Emacs. For that reason, all new contributors need to +assign copyright to their contributions to the FSF (the usual +procedure for Emacs contributors). The same holds for past +contributors. The principal authors and maintainers have already done +so, but it would require a diligent and diplomatic volunteer to find +and ask the rest. + +Current project manager is David Kastrup. Paypal contributions to +<URL:mailto:auctex@gnu.org> would be appreciated in order to +compensate for time, money and hardware required for presenting AUCTeX +at conferences. Extensions may be commissioned: enquire on the +developer list (see above). Other than that, volunteering for tasks +remains the most effective way of helping AUCTeX development. + +The following people contributed to this release series (in +alphabetical order): Ivan Andrus, Ralf Angeli, Masayuki Ataka, Fabrice +Ben Hamouda, Thomas Baumann, Vincent Belaïche, Berend de Boer, Ken +Brown, Joshua Buhl, Patrice Dumas, Arash Esbati, Werner Fink, Miguel +Frasson, Peter S. Galbraith, Mosè Giordano, Patrick Gundlach, Jobst +Hoffmann, Tassilo Horn, Yvon Hevel, Orlando Iovino, Mads Jensen, Arne +Jørgensen, David Kastrup, Ikumi Keita, Philip Kime, Oleh Krehel, Joost +Kremers, Frank Küster, Jan-Åke Larsson, Matthew Leach, Antoine Levitt, +Leo Liu, Vladimir Lomov, Stefan Monnier, Dan Nicolaescu, Piet van +Oostrum, Nicolas Richard, Augusto Ritter Stoffel, Florent Rougon, +Santiago Saavedra, Davide G. M. Salvetti, Rüdiger Sonderfeld, Holger +Sparr, Mike Sperber, Reiner Steib, Christian Schlauer, Shiro Takeda, +Mark Trettin (Please accept our apologies if we forgot somebody.) + +Footnotes: + +[1] <URL:ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/preview/> + +[2] You can get a precompiled version of Emacs for Windows at +<URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/>. + +[3] See e.g. <URL:http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsForMacOS> +for a list of precompiled versions of Emacs for Mac OS X. + +[4] dvipng is available via its project page +<URL:http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/dvipng> and from CTAN. |