From e0c6872cf40896c7be36b11dcc744620f10adf1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Norbert Preining Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2019 13:46:59 +0900 Subject: Initial commit --- macros/latex/doc/ltnews09.tex | 142 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 142 insertions(+) create mode 100644 macros/latex/doc/ltnews09.tex (limited to 'macros/latex/doc/ltnews09.tex') diff --git a/macros/latex/doc/ltnews09.tex b/macros/latex/doc/ltnews09.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c4f8b43ec8 --- /dev/null +++ b/macros/latex/doc/ltnews09.tex @@ -0,0 +1,142 @@ +% \iffalse meta-comment +% +% Copyright 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 +% 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 2005/12/01 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: ltnews09.tex + +% This is issue 9 of LaTeX News. + +\documentclass +% [lw35fonts] + {ltnews}[1999/02/23] + +%\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} + +\publicationmonth{June} +\publicationyear{1998} +\publicationissue{9} + +\begin{document} + +\maketitle + + +\section{New math font encodings} + +A joint working group of the \TeX{} Users Group and the \LaTeX3 +Project is developing a new 8-bit math font encoding for \TeX{}. +It is designed to overcome several limitations and implementation +problems of the old math font encodings and to simplify switching +between different sets of math fonts, much as the \LaTeX{} font +selection interface has simplified switching between text fonts. + +Since the work on this project relies entirely on volunteer work, we +cannot give a specific release date yet. However, a prototype +implementation already exists. This contains several sets of virtual +fonts, some \LaTeX{} packages and a kernel module; we hope to +integrate it into the main \LaTeX{} distribution for the next +release. + +Documents using only standard \LaTeX{} commands for math symbols +should not be affected by switching to the new math font encodings +However, documents, classes or packages making specific assumptions +about the encoding of math symbol fonts are likely to break. + +Further information about the Math Font Group may be found on +the World Wide Web at \texttt{http://www.tug.org/twg/mfg/}. + + +\section{A new math accent} + +A new math accent, \verb|\mathring|, has been added. This is a math mode +version of the ring accent (\r{}) which is available in text +mode with the command \verb|\r|. + +\section{Extended \cs{DeclareMathDelimiter}} + +The command \verb|\DeclareMathDelimiter| has been extended. +Normally this command takes six arguments. Previously, when being used +to declare a character (such as \texttt{[}) as a delimiter, a variant +form was used with only five arguments. The argument specifying the +default `math class' was omitted. Now the full six-argument form may be +used in this case. The extra information is used to implicitly declare +the character via \verb|\DeclareMathSymbol| for use when the symbol is +not used with \verb|\left| or \verb|\right|. + +The old five-argument form is detected and will work as before. + +\newpage + +\section{Tools distribution} + +The \texttt{multicol} package now supports the production of multiple +columns without balancing the last page. To get this effect use the +\texttt{multicols*} environment. + +The \texttt{layout} package was partly recoded by Hideo Umeki to +display page layout effects in a better way. + +As suggested by Donald Arseneau, the \texttt{calc} package was extended +to support the new commands \verb|\widthof{}|, +\verb|\heightof{}|, and \verb|\depthof{}| within a +\texttt{calc}-expression. At the same time we modified a few kernel +commands so that \texttt{calc}-expressions can now be used in various +useful places such as the dimension arguments to the \texttt{tabular} +environment and the \verb|\rule| command. For many other standard +\LaTeX{} commands this was already possible. + + +\section{Support for Cyrillic encodings} + +We are very pleased that, after a lengthy period of development, a set +of fonts, encodings and support files for using \LaTeX\ with Cyrillic +characters will soon be available. + +Test versions of the `LH' fonts for these Cyrillic encodings, based on +the Computer Modern design, are available from CTAN archives in the +directory \texttt{fonts/cyrillic/lh-test}. The \LaTeX\ support files +(by Werner Lemberg and Vladimir Volovich) are also available from CTAN +archives in\\ + \texttt{macros/latex/contrib/supported/t2} + + +\section{Default docstrip header} + +Many \LaTeX\ users now distribute packages in documented source form +using the \textsf{docstrip} system. Docstrip allows a header to be +placed on generated package files, suitable for giving copyright +information, or distribution conditions. + +We have changed the default version of this header so that it allows +stripped files to be distributed in ready-to-run installations such as +the \TeX{}Live CD\@. If you use the default header for distributing +your files you should check that the new copyright text is acceptable +to you. The file \texttt{docstrip.dtx} explains how to produce your own +header if you wish to do so. + + +\end{document} -- cgit v1.2.3