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--- a/macros/latex/base/ltnews07.tex
+++ b/macros/latex/base/ltnews07.tex
@@ -40,6 +40,12 @@
\publicationyear{1997}
\publicationissue{7}
+\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
@@ -48,30 +54,30 @@
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}
+In this release the default installation uses \file{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}.
+unpack \file{newdc.ins} (for DC release 1.2 or later) or
+\file{olddc.ins} (for the original releases of the DC fonts).
+This should be done after unpacking \file{unpack.ins} but
+before making the format by running ini\TeX{} on \file{latex.ltx}.
+There are further details in \file{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
+\file{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}.
+recommended that you obtain Walter Schmidt's \pkg{ccfonts} package
+and fonts from CTAN \file{macros/latex/contrib/supported/ccfonts}.
\section{Further input encodings}
-Two more \textsf{inputenc} packages have been added: for latin5,
+Two more \pkg{inputenc} packages have been added: for latin5,
thanks to H. Turgut Uyar; and for latin3, thanks to J\"org Knappen.
@@ -83,18 +89,18 @@ 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}
+example of this happening in \LaTeX\ is in the \env{verbatim}
environment.
\section{Accessing Bold Math Symbols}
-The \textsf{tools} distribution contains a new package, \textsf{bm},
+The \textsf{tools} distribution contains a new package, \pkg{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;
+fonts). It is more general than the existing \pkg{amsbsy} package;
however, to ease the translation of documents between these two
-packages, \textsf{bm} makes \verb|\boldsymbol| an alias for
+packages, \pkg{bm} makes \verb|\boldsymbol| an alias for
\verb|\bm|.
This package was previously made available from the `contrib' area of