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-% This is issue 10 of LaTeX News.
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-\documentclass
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- {ltnews}[1999/02/23]
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-\publicationmonth{December}
-\publicationyear{1998}
-\publicationissue{10}
-
-\begin{document}
-
-\maketitle
-
-
-\section{Five years of \LaTeXe}
-
-Since this is the 10th edition of \LaTeX{} News, the (no longer) New
-Standard \LaTeX{} must have hit the streets almost this long ago. In
-fact it was only the beta-version that some people got just in time for
-Christmas~1993, and since then there has been a lot of tidying-up and
-smoothing of rough edges (not to mention a few bug fixes!).
-
-Maybe it is time for something more radically different to emerge and
-be hungrily adopted by the world; but don't panic, we shall be
-maintaining what you have now for a long time yet. Amongst the more
-polite things that have been written about our efforts, we found that this
-quote (somewhat censored to protect the guilty) well reflects some of
-our feelings about working on \LaTeX{} over the years: \textit{the mere
-existence of \LaTeXe{} is a great miracle}.
-
-
- \section{Restructuring the \LaTeX{} distribution}
-
- Since the (once) `new' standard \LaTeX{} has reached such a venerable
- age, we are reviewing the way in which the system is presented to the
- world.
-
- An early intention is to define, given the wide variety of good
- packages now available, what now constitutes a useful installation of
- \LaTeX{}. We also hope that such a definition will help document
- portability if it leads to a future in which a \LaTeX{} class
- designer can reasonably assume that a known list of
- facilities will be there for all users (so that each class
- need not supply them).
-
- As a first small step towards this definition, we shall replace the
- \texttt{latex/packages} subdirectory on \ctan{}.
- This directory was a curious mixture of the important, such as the
- \LaTeX{} \texttt{tools}, that any self-respecting \LaTeX{}
- installation ought to have, and the esoteric or experimental.
-
- The esoterica from \texttt{packages} will be moved to
- new locations, as follows:
- \begin{quote}
- \texttt{expl3} to \texttt{latex/exptl/project}\\
- \texttt{mfnfss} to \texttt{latex/contrib/supported/mfnfss}
- \end{quote}
-
- The subdirectory that replaces \texttt{packages} will be called
- \texttt{latex/required}; all the other sub-directories of
- \texttt{packages} will be moved there.
-
-\vspace{17pt}
-\pagebreak
-
- \section{\LaTeX\ Project on the Internet}
-A new \texttt{latex-project.org} domain has been registered.
-The web site is not yet fully functional but the old \LaTeX\ pages from
-\ctan\ are available at \texttt{http://www.latex-project.org/} and the
-\LaTeX\ bug reporting address has been changed to
-\texttt{latex-bugs@latex-project.org}.
-
- \section{Restructuring the \LaTeX{} package licenses}
-
-Several people have requested an easy mechanism for the distribution
-of \LaTeX\ packages and other software ``under the same conditions as
-\LaTeX''. The old \texttt{legal.txt} file was unsuitable as a general
-licence as it referred to specific \LaTeX\ authors, and to specific
-files.
-
-Therefore, in this release \texttt{legal.txt} contains just the
-copyright notice and a reference to the new \emph{\LaTeX\ Project
-Public License} (LPPL) for the distribution and modification
-conditions. The \texttt{tools}, \texttt{graphics}, and \texttt{mfnfss}
-packages also now refer to this license in their distribution notices.
-
- \section{Support for Cyrillic encodings}
-
-Basic Cyrillic support, as announced in \LaTeX{} News~9, is now
-finally an official part of \LaTeX{}. It includes support for the
-following standard Cyrillic font encodings (this list may
-grow):~\mbox{\texttt{T2A T2B T2C X2}}.
-
-It also includes various Cyrillic input encodings (20~in total,
-including commonly used variants and Mongolian Cyrillic
-encodings). This provides platform independent and
-sophisticated basic support for high-quality typesetting in various
-Cyrillic-based languages.
-
-For further information see the file \texttt{cyrguide.tex}.
-
-\section{Tools distribution}
-
-The \texttt{varioref} package has been extended to support textual
-page references to a range of objects: e.g.,~if \texttt{eq-first}
-and \texttt{eq-last} are the label names for the first and last
-equation in a sequence, then you can now write
-\begin{verbatim}
- see~\vrefrange{eq-first}{eq-last}
-\end{verbatim}
-This results in different text depending on whether both
-labels fall on the same page.
-
-Some additional user commands, as well as building-blocks for writing
-private extensions, are described in the accompanying documentation.
-
-
-
-\end{document}
-