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+% \iffalse meta-comment
+%
+% Copyright (C) 1993-2019
+% The LaTeX3 Project and any individual authors listed elsewhere
+% in this file.
+%
+% This file is part of the LaTeX base system.
+% -------------------------------------------
+%
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+% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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+% 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
+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
+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
+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
+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
+in the faster \emph{native mode}, you should try replacing the line:
+\begin{verbatim}
+ \documentstyle[<options>,<packages>]{<class>}
+\end{verbatim}
+with:
+\begin{verbatim}
+ \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
+out if there is a \LaTeXe{} version of the package available.
+
+\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
+from the distributor who brought you \LaTeXe:
+
+\begin{citations}
+\item[babel] for typesetting in many languages.
+\item[color] for colour support.
+\item[graphics] for including images.
+\item[mfnfss] for using bitmap fonts.
+\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
+\emph{The \LaTeX{} Companion}.
+
+\section{Further information}
+
+More information about \LaTeXe{} is to be found in:
+
+\begin{citations}
+\item[\LaTeX: A Document Preparation System]
+ Leslie Lamport, \AW, 2nd ed, 1994.
+\item[The \LaTeX{} Companion]
+ Goossens, Mittelbach and Samarin, \AW, 1994.
+\end{citations}
+The \LaTeX{} distribution comes with documentation on the new features of
+\LaTeX:
+
+\begin{citations}
+\item[\LaTeXe{} for authors]
+ describes the new features of \LaTeX{} documents,
+ in the file \verb|usrguide.tex|.
+\item[\LaTeXe{} for class and package writers]
+ describes the new features of \LaTeX{} classes and packages,
+ in the file \verb|clsguide.tex|.
+\item[\LaTeXe{} font selection]
+ describes the new features of \LaTeX{} fonts for
+ 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,
+EMail:~tug@tug.org.
+
+\end{document}
+
+
+