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-% This is issue 7 of LaTeX News.
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-\documentclass
-% [lw35fonts]
- {ltnews}
-
-% \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
-
-\publicationmonth{June}
-\publicationyear{1997}
-\publicationissue{7}
-
-\begin{document}
-
-\maketitle
-
-\section{T1 encoded Computer Modern fonts}
-As in the last release the base \LaTeX\ distribution contains
-three different sets of `fd' files for T1 encoded fonts.
-
-In this release the default installation uses \texttt{ec.ins}
-and so installs files suitable for the current `EC fonts'
-distribution. If you have still not updated to the EC fonts and
-are using the earlier test versions, known as DC then you should
-unpack \texttt{newdc.ins} (for DC release 1.2 or later) or
-\texttt{olddc.ins} (for the original releases of the DC fonts).
-This should be done after unpacking \texttt{unpack.ins} but
-before making the format by running ini\TeX{} on \texttt{latex.ltx}.
-There are further details in \texttt{install.txt}.
-
-
-\section{T1 encoded Concrete fonts}
-The Metafont sources for T1 encoded `Concrete' fonts have been
-removed from the \textsf{mfnss} distribution as they were based
-on the now obsolete DC fonts release 1.1. Similarly the
-\textsf{cmextra.ins} install file in the \textsf{base} distribution no
-longer generates fd files for the `Concrete' fonts.
-To use these fonts in either T1 or OT1 encoding it is
-recommended that you obtain Walter Schmidt's \textsf{ccfonts} package
-and fonts from CTAN \texttt{macros/latex/contrib/supported/ccfonts}.
-
-
-\section{Further input encodings}
-Two more \textsf{inputenc} packages have been added: for latin5,
-thanks to H. Turgut Uyar; and for latin3, thanks to J\"org Knappen.
-
-
-\section{Normalising spacing after punctuation}
-The command \verb|\normalsfcodes| was introduced at the last patch
-release. This is normally given the correct definition automatically
-and so need not be explicitly set. It is used to correct a problem,
-reported by Donald Arseneau, that punctuation in page headers has
-always (in all known \TeX\ formats) been potentially incorrect if the
-page break happens while a local setting of the space codes (for
-instance by the command \verb|\frenchspacing|) is in effect. A common
-example of this happening in \LaTeX\ is in the \textsf{verbatim}
-environment.
-
-
-\section{Accessing Bold Math Symbols}
-The \textsf{tools} distribution contains a new package, \textsf{bm},
-which defines a command \verb|\bm| that allows individual bold symbols
-to be accessed within a math expression (in contrast to
-\verb|\boldmath| which makes whole math expressions default to bold
-fonts). It is more general than the existing \textsf{amsbsy} package;
-however, to ease the translation of documents between these two
-packages, \textsf{bm} makes \verb|\boldsymbol| an alias for
-\verb|\bm|.
-
-This package was previously made available from the `contrib' area of
-the CTAN archives, and as part of Y\&Y's \LaTeX\ support for the
-MathTime fonts.
-
-
-\section{Policy on standard classes}
-
-Many of the problem reports we receive concerning the standard classes
-are not concerned with bugs but are suggesting, more or less politely,
-that the design decisions embodied in them are `not optimal' and
-asking us to modify them.
-
-There are several reasons why we have decided not to make such changes
-to these files.
-\begin{itemize}
-\item
- However misguided, the current behaviour is clearly what was
- intended when these classes were designed.
-\item
- It is not good practice to change such aspects of `standard classes'
- because many people will be relying on them.
-\end{itemize}
-
-We have therefore decided not to even consider making such
-modifications, nor to spend time justifying that decision. This does
-not mean that we do not agree that there are many deficiencies in the
-design of these classes, but we have many tasks with higher priority
-than continually explaining why the standard classes for \LaTeX{}
-cannot be changed.
-
-We would, of course, welcome the production of better classes, or of
-packages that can be used to enhance these classes.
-
-
-\section{New addresses for TUG}
-For information about joining the \TeX{} Users Group, and about lots
-of other \LaTeX-related matters, please contact
-them at their new address:
-\begin{quote}\small
- \TeX{} Users Group, P.O. Box 1239,\\
- Three Rivers, CA~93271-1239, USA\\
- Fax:~+1~209~561~4584\\
- E-mail: \texttt{tug@mail.tug.org}\\
- URL: \texttt{http://www.tug.org/}
-\end{quote}
-
-\end{document}