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+% \iffalse meta-comment
+%
+% Copyright 2019-2020
+% The LaTeX3 Project and any individual authors listed elsewhere
+% 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
+% https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
+% 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
+% extension .ins) which are part of the distribution.
+%
+% \fi
+% Filename: ltnews32.tex
+%
+% This is issue 32 of LaTeX News.
+
+\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}[2020-02-02]
+
+\documentclass{ltnews}
+\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
+
+\usepackage{lmodern,url,hologo}
+
+\usepackage{csquotes}
+\usepackage{multicol}
+
+\providecommand\meta[1]{$\langle$\textit{#1}$\rangle$}
+\providecommand\option[1]{\texttt{#1}}
+\providecommand\env[1]{\texttt{#1}}
+
+
+\providecommand\XeTeX{\hologo{XeTeX}}
+\providecommand\LuaTeX{\hologo{LuaTeX}}
+\providecommand\pdfTeX{\hologo{pdfTeX}}
+\providecommand\MiKTeX{\hologo{MiKTeX}}
+\providecommand\CTAN{\textsc{ctan}}
+\providecommand\TL{\TeX\,Live}
+\providecommand\githubissue[2][]{\ifhmode\unskip\fi
+ \quad\penalty500\strut\nobreak\hfill
+ \mbox{\small\slshape(%
+ \href{https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/issues/\getfirstgithubissue#2 \relax}%
+ {github issue#1 #2}%
+ )}%
+ \par\smallskip}
+
+% simple solution right now (just link to the first issue if there are more)
+\def\getfirstgithubissue#1 #2\relax{#1}
+
+\providecommand\sxissue[1]{\ifhmode\unskip\fi
+ \quad\penalty500\strut\nobreak\hfill
+ \mbox{\small\slshape(\url{https://tex.stackexchange.com/#1})}\par}
+
+\providecommand\gnatsissue[2]{\ifhmode\unskip\fi
+ \quad\penalty500\strut\nobreak\hfill
+ \mbox{\small\slshape(%
+ \href{https://www.latex-project.org/cgi-bin/ltxbugs2html?pr=#1\%2F#2}%
+ {gnats issue #1/#2}%
+ )}%
+ \par}
+
+\let\cls\pkg
+\providecommand\env[1]{\texttt{#1}}
+
+\vbadness=1400 % accept slightly empty columns
+
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\iffalse % only for TUB production
+\usepackage{graphicx}
+\makeatletter
+% Xe\TeX{} requires reflecting the first E, hence we complain if the
+% graphics package is not present. (For plain documents, this can be
+% loaded via Eplain.) Also, at Barbara's suggestion, if the current
+% font is slanted, we rotate by 180 instead of reflecting so there is at
+% least a chance to look ok. (The magic values here seem more or less
+% ok for \texttt{cmsl} and \texttt{cmti}.)
+%
+% \begin{macrocode}
+\def\tubreflect#1{%
+ \@ifundefined{reflectbox}{%
+ \TBerror{A graphics package must be loaded for \string\XeTeX}%
+ }{%
+ \ifdim \fontdimen1\font>0pt
+ \raise 1.6ex \hbox{\kern.1em\rotatebox{180}{#1}}\kern-.1em
+ \else
+ \reflectbox{#1}%
+ \fi
+ }%
+}
+\def\tubhideheight#1{\setbox0=\hbox{#1}\ht0=0pt \dp0=0pt \box0 }
+\def\XekernbeforeE{-.125em}
+\def\XekernafterE{-.1667em}
+\DeclareRobustCommand{\Xe}{\leavevmode
+ \tubhideheight{\hbox{X%
+ \setbox0=\hbox{\TeX}\setbox1=\hbox{E}%
+ \ifdim \fontdimen1\font>0pt \def\XekernbeforeE{0em}\fi
+ \lower\dp0\hbox{\raise\dp1\hbox{\kern\XekernbeforeE\tubreflect{E}}}%
+ \kern\XekernafterE}}}
+\def\XeTeX{\Xe\TeX}
+\def\XeLaTeX{\Xe{\kern.11em \LaTeX}}
+\fi
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+\publicationmonth{October}
+\publicationyear{2020}
+
+\publicationissue{32}
+
+\begin{document}
+
+%\addtolength\textheight{4.2pc} % only for TUB
+
+\maketitle
+{\hyphenpenalty=10000 \spaceskip=3.33pt \hbadness=10000 \tableofcontents}
+
+\setlength\rightskip{0pt plus 3em}
+
+
+\medskip
+
+
+\section{Introduction}
+
+This document is under construction \ldots
+
+
+
+\section{Other changes to the \LaTeX{} kernel}
+
+
+\subsection{\cs{symbol} in math mode for large Unicode values}
+
+The \LaTeXe{} kernel defines the command \cs{symbol}, which allows characters to be
+typeset by entering their `slot number'. With the \LuaTeX{} and \XeTeX{} engines, these
+slot numbers can extend to very large values to accomodate Unicode characters in the upper
+Unicode planes (e.g., bold mathematical capital A is slot number \texttt{"1D400} in hex or
+\texttt{119808} in decimal).
+The \XeTeX{} engine did not allow \cs{symbol} in math mode for values above $2^{16}$, and
+this limitation has now been lifted.
+%
+\githubissue{124}
+
+
+\section{Changes to packages in the \pkg{tools} category}
+
+\subsection{Support stretchable glue in \texttt{w}-columns}
+
+If stretchable glue, e.g., \cs{dotfill}, is used in \env{tabular}
+columns made with the \pkg{array} package, it stretches as it would in
+normal paragraph text. The one exception were \texttt{w}-columns (but
+not \texttt{W}-columns) were it got forced to its nominal width (which
+in case if \cs{hfill} or \cs{dotfill} is 0\,pt). This has been
+corrected and now \texttt{w}-columns behave like all other column
+types in this respect.
+%
+\githubissue{270}
+
+
+
+
+\end{document}