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+++ b/macros/latex-dev/base/ltnews15.tex
@@ -40,6 +40,12 @@
\publicationyear{2003}
\publicationissue{15}
+\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}
\maketitle
@@ -87,14 +93,14 @@ The English has been corrected in \verb|\reftextbefore|
(an incompatible change). There are other extensions
such as \verb|\labelformat|, \verb|\Ref|, \verb|\Vref| and \verb|\vpagerefnum|.
Some Dutch text has also been changed and two\newline
-new options added: \package{slovak} and \package{slovene}.
+new options added: \option{slovak} and \option{slovene}.
\section{New and more robust commands}
Many of the math mode commands for compound symbols have been made
robust and a new robust command has been added: \verb|\nobreakdashes|.
-This last is a low-level command, borrowed from the \package{amsmath}
+This last is a low-level command, borrowed from the \pkg{amsmath}
package, for use only before hyphens or dashes. It prevents the line
break that is normally allowed\newline
after the following sequence of dashes.
@@ -102,20 +108,20 @@ after the following sequence of dashes.
\section{Fixing font sizes}
-The new \package{fix-cm} package, by Walter Schmidt, changes the CM font
+The new \pkg{fix-cm} package, by Walter Schmidt, changes the CM font
definition (\texttt{.fd}) files so that similar design sizes are used
in both the \texttt{OT1} and \texttt{T1} encodings.
\section{Font encodings}
-A number of options have been added to the \package{textcomp} package,
+A number of options have been added to the \pkg{textcomp} package,
enabling only available glyphs to be used.
Also, the `NFSS font families' are now divided into five different groups
according to the subset of glyphs each provides from the full
collection of symbols in the TS1 encoding.
Given sufficient information about a font family
-\package{textcomp} will use this in order to limit the\newline
+\pkg{textcomp} will use this in order to limit the\newline
typesetting to those glyphs that are available.
Use of this mechanism has also enhanced \verb|\oldstylenums|
@@ -124,7 +130,7 @@ to use the current font if possible.
\section{Displaying font tables}
-With the \package{nfssfont} package you can now
+With the \pkg{nfssfont} package you can now
specify the font to display by giving its `NFSS classification',
rather than needing to know its external font file's name.
It is also now possible to generate large collections of font
@@ -133,25 +139,25 @@ tables in batch mode by providing a suitable input file.
\section{New input encodings}
-The \package{inputenc} package has been extended as follows:
-\package{macce} input encoding
+The \pkg{inputenc} package has been extended as follows:
+\option{macce} input encoding
(Apple Central European),
-thanks to Radek Tryc and Marcin Wolinski; \package{cp1257}\newline
+thanks to Radek Tryc and Marcin Wolinski; \option{cp1257}\newline
for Baltic languages; \package{latin10},
thanks to Ionel Ciob\^{i}c\u{a}.\newline
The euro symbol has by
now been added to several encodings:
-\package{ansinew}, \package{cp1250}
-and \package{cp1252} (which also\newline
-has another addition), whilst \package{cp858}
-adds it to \package{cp850}.
+\option{ansinew}, \option{cp1250}
+and \option{cp1252} (which also\newline
+has another addition), whilst \option{cp858}
+adds it to \option{cp850}.
\section{Unicode input}
Partial, experimental support for text files that use the Unicode
-encoding form UTF-8 is now provided by the option \package{utf8} for
-the \package{inputenc} package.
+encoding form UTF-8 is now provided by the option \option{utf8} for
+the \pkg{inputenc} package.
The only Unicode text file characters supported by the current version
are those based on the most common inputs for glyphs from the small