From fed27f633aadbacbd3d1221da7993fed8d4efffe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Norbert Preining Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2019 03:00:57 +0000 Subject: CTAN sync 201909150300 --- macros/latex-dev/base/ltnews07.tex | 146 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 146 insertions(+) create mode 100644 macros/latex-dev/base/ltnews07.tex (limited to 'macros/latex-dev/base/ltnews07.tex') diff --git a/macros/latex-dev/base/ltnews07.tex b/macros/latex-dev/base/ltnews07.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6c08629d67 --- /dev/null +++ b/macros/latex-dev/base/ltnews07.tex @@ -0,0 +1,146 @@ +% \iffalse meta-comment +% +% Copyright (C) 1993-2019 +% 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 +% http://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: ltnews07.tex + +% This is issue 7 of LaTeX News. + +\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} -- cgit v1.2.3