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+++ b/macros/latex-dev/base/ltnews14.tex
@@ -40,6 +40,11 @@
\publicationyear{2001}
\publicationissue{14}
+\providecommand\pkg[1]{\texttt{#1}}
+\providecommand\cls[1]{\texttt{#1}}
+\providecommand\option[1]{\texttt{#1}}
+\providecommand\env[1]{\texttt{#1}}
+\providecommand\file[1]{\texttt{#1}}
\begin{document}
@@ -69,14 +74,14 @@ available. You can read about its new features in
One of the bugs that got fixed in this release deals with how labels
are handled by \LaTeX{}. Because this part of the kernel is modified
-by \textsf{babel}, the relevant changes need to be coordinated.
-Therefore to use \textsf{Babel} with this release of \LaTeX{} you will
-need to update your version of \textsf{babel} to at least 3.7.
+by \pkg{babel}, the relevant changes need to be coordinated.
+Therefore to use \pkg{Babel} with this release of \LaTeX{} you will
+need to update your version of \pkg{babel} to at least 3.7.
-\section{New input encoding \package{latin9}}
+\section{New input encoding \option{latin9}}
-The package \package{inputenc} has, thanks to Karsten Tinnefeld, been
-extended to cover the \package{latin9} input encoding. The
+The package \pkg{inputenc} has, thanks to Karsten Tinnefeld, been
+extended to cover the \option{latin9} input encoding. The
ISO-Latin~9 encoding is a useful modern replacement for ISO-Latin~1
that contains a few characters needed for French and Finnish. Of wider
interest, it also contains the euro currency sign; this could be the
@@ -87,11 +92,11 @@ Breton, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish,
French, Frisian, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Icelandic, Irish
Gaelic, Italian, Latin, Luxembourgish, Norwegian, Portuguese,
Rhaeto-Romanic, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish and Swedish.\\
-The characters added in \package{latin9} are (in \LaTeX{} notation):\\
+The characters added in \option{latin9} are (in \LaTeX{} notation):\\
\begin{small}
\verb| \texteuro \v S \v s \v Z \v z \OE \oe \" Y |
\end{small}\\
-They displace the following characters from \package{latin1}:\\
+They displace the following characters from \option{latin1}:\\
\begin{small}
\verb| \textcurrency \textbrokenbar \"{} \'{} \c{} |\\
\verb| \textonequarter \textonehalf \textthreequarters |
@@ -100,7 +105,7 @@ They displace the following characters from \package{latin1}:\\
\section{New tools}
-The new package \package{trace} provides many commands to control
+The new package \pkg{trace} provides many commands to control
\LaTeX{}'s tracing and debugging output, including the excellent new
information available with \eTeX{} such as the extremely useful
tracing of local assignments. You will find it in the tools
@@ -112,7 +117,7 @@ loading by NFSS (which can go on for pages if you are unlucky). It
also offers \verb|\traceoff| to \ldots\ guess what! Full details are
in the documented source file, \file{trace.dtx}.
-In the base \package{ifthen} package we have added
+In the base \pkg{ifthen} package we have added
the uppercase synonyms \verb|\NOT| \verb|\AND| and \verb|\OR|.
\section{New experimental code}
@@ -157,11 +162,11 @@ This directory has been extended to contain the following.
\item[galley] Prototype implementation of the interface\latex{\\}
for manipulating vertical material in galleys.
\item[xinitials] Prototype implementation of the interface\latex{\\}
- for paragraph initials (needs the \texttt{galley} package).
- \item[xtheorem] Contributed example using the \texttt{template}
+ for paragraph initials (needs the \pkg{galley} package).
+ \item[xtheorem] Contributed example using the \pkg{template}
package to provide a designer interface for theorem environments.
\item[xor] A prototype implementation of the new output routine
- as described in the \texttt{xo-pfloat.pdf} paper.
+ as described in the \file{xo-pfloat.pdf} paper.
\item[xfrontm] A prototype version of
the new font matter interface.
\end{description}