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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2024-02-28 17:08:55 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2024-02-28 17:08:55 +0000
commit13793804f2fbc5bbacc0a62c51af4badae8fe6f7 (patch)
treee1c0589743ac1274e0d6cecbe7a7f281414e0bc8
parent4718398527feb7afe69ea7371e492e5923b67752 (diff)
new cross-engine and luatex changes
git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@70227 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
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--- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.html
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.html
@@ -7400,7 +7400,7 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">-dNOSAFER</span>, except for transparency.
class="ec-lmtt-12">-r </span>option to set bitmap font resolution works again.</p></li></ul>
<!--l. 4139--><p class="indent" > Dvips: By default, do not attempt automatic media adjustment for rotated paper sizes; the
new option <span
-class="ec-lmtt-12">–landscaperotate </span>re-enables.
+class="ec-lmtt-12">--landscaperotate </span>re-enables.
</p><!--l. 4142--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">upmendex</span>: Experimental support for Arabic and Hebrew scripts; improved character
classification and language support.
@@ -7577,17 +7577,17 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">\XeTeXupwardsmode </span>is active;
the cross-engine “late <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\special</span>” described above.
</p><!--l. 4242--><p class="noindent" >Dvipdfmx: new option <span
-class="ec-lmtt-12">–pdfm-str-utf8 </span>to make pdfmark and/or bookmark.
-</p><!--l. 4244--><p class="noindent" >BibTeXu: </p>
+class="ec-lmtt-12">--pdfm-str-utf8 </span>to make pdfmark and/or bookmark.
+</p><!--l. 4245--><p class="noindent" >BibTeXu: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4245--><p class="noindent" >This BibTeX variant is mostly upward-compatible with BibTeX, with much better
+ <!--l. 4246--><p class="noindent" >This BibTeX variant is mostly upward-compatible with BibTeX, with much better
(Unicode-based) multilingual support. It’s been in TeX Live for some years.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4248--><p class="noindent" >This year, more features to support CJK languages have been added, some
+ <!--l. 4249--><p class="noindent" >This year, more features to support CJK languages have been added, some
extended from the Japanese (u)pbibtex and other programs.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4252--><p class="noindent" >Kpathsea: Support guessing input file encodings for Unix-ish platforms, as on Windows;
+<!--l. 4253--><p class="noindent" >Kpathsea: Support guessing input file encodings for Unix-ish platforms, as on Windows;
enabled for (<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">e</span>)<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">p</span>(<span
@@ -7595,23 +7595,23 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">la</span>)<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tex</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">pbibtex</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">mendex</span>.
-</p><!--l. 4257--><p class="noindent" ><span
+</p><!--l. 4258--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlmgr </span>and infrastructure: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4258--><p class="noindent" >default to text interface on macOS.
+ <!--l. 4259--><p class="noindent" >default to text interface on macOS.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4259--><p class="noindent" >install core packages first, retry other packages once.
+ <!--l. 4260--><p class="noindent" >install core packages first, retry other packages once.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4260--><p class="noindent" >simplistic checks are done for enough disk space.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4263--><p class="noindent" >MacTeX: </p>
+ <!--l. 4261--><p class="noindent" >simplistic checks are done for enough disk space.</p></li></ul>
+<!--l. 4264--><p class="noindent" >MacTeX: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4264--><p class="noindent" >MacTeX and its binary folder <span
+ <!--l. 4265--><p class="noindent" >MacTeX and its binary folder <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">universal-darwin </span>require macOS 10.14 or higher
(Mojave, Catalina, Big Sur, Monterey, Ventura). The <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">x86_64-darwinlegacy</span>
@@ -7620,7 +7620,7 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">install-tl</span>, supports 10.6
(Snow Leopard) and later.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4270--><p class="noindent" >The GUI package in MacTeX now contains <span
+ <!--l. 4271--><p class="noindent" >The GUI package in MacTeX now contains <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">hintview</span>, a macOS viewer for HINT
documents (created by the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">hitex </span>and <span
@@ -7635,33 +7635,53 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12"> ME </span>for new users and a page about <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">hintview</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4277--><p class="noindent" >The <span
+ <!--l. 4278--><p class="noindent" >The <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">Extras </span>folder of additional TeX software on the DVD has been replaced with
a document containing links to download sites.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4281--><p class="noindent" >Platforms: </p>
+<!--l. 4282--><p class="noindent" >Platforms: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4282--><p class="noindent" >As mentioned above, the new <span
+ <!--l. 4283--><p class="noindent" >As mentioned above, the new <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">windows </span>binary directory contains 64-bit Windows
binaries, and
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4284--><p class="noindent" >the <span
+ <!--l. 4285--><p class="noindent" >the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">bin/win32 </span>binary directory is gone, since we cannot support 32-bit and 64-bit
Windows simultaneously.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4286--><p class="noindent" >The <span
+ <!--l. 4287--><p class="noindent" >The <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">i386-cygwin </span>binary directory is gone, since Cygwin no longer supports i386.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4291--><p class="indent" > <a id="news"></a>
+<!--l. 4292--><p class="indent" > <a id="news"></a>
</p>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.2 </span> <a
id="x1-930009.2"></a>Present: 2024</h4>
-<!--l. 4295--><p class="noindent" >LuaTeX: Lua-level checks for writing to files now similar to the TeX-level checks.
-</p><!--l. 4298--><p class="noindent" >MetaPost: </p>
+<!--l. 4296--><p class="noindent" >Cross-engine changes (except in original TeX and e-TeX): </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4299--><p class="noindent" >MPFI
+ <!--l. 4298--><p class="noindent" >Avoid crashes on devious use of <span
+class="ec-lmtt-12">\output </span>and <span
+class="ec-lmtt-12">\write </span>braces.
+ </p></li>
+ <li class="itemize">
+ <!--l. 4299--><p class="noindent" >Tiny inner-loop optimization. (Both these changes are due to David Fuchs.)</p></li></ul>
+<!--l. 4303--><p class="noindent" >LuaTeX: </p>
+ <ul class="itemize1">
+ <li class="itemize">
+ <!--l. 4304--><p class="noindent" >Lua-level checks for writing to files now similar to the TeX-level checks.
+ </p></li>
+ <li class="itemize">
+
+
+ <!--l. 4306--><p class="noindent" >If <span
+class="ec-lmtt-12">\tracingmacros </span>is 256 or more, blank lines are output in the log between macro
+ parameters. In 2020–2023, this was the case by default; before that, such blank
+ lines were never output, which is the behavior of the other engines.</p></li></ul>
+<!--l. 4312--><p class="noindent" >MetaPost: </p>
+ <ul class="itemize1">
+ <li class="itemize">
+ <!--l. 4313--><p class="noindent" >MPFI
library
now
included
@@ -7670,48 +7690,48 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">i386-cygwin </span>binary directory is gone, since Cygwin no
arithmetic;
enabled
with
-
-
<span
-class="ec-lmtt-12">–numbersystem=interval</span>.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4303--><p class="noindent" >pdfTeX: </p>
+class="ec-lmtt-12">--numbersystem=interval</span>.</p></li></ul>
+<!--l. 4317--><p class="noindent" >pdfTeX: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4304--><p class="noindent" >More reliable text extraction on BigEndian systems.
+ <!--l. 4318--><p class="noindent" >More reliable text extraction on BigEndian systems.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4305--><p class="noindent" >More checks against corrupt pfb, fmt, pdf files.
+ <!--l. 4319--><p class="noindent" >More checks against corrupt pfb, fmt, pdf files.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4306--><p class="noindent" >Avoid writing a corrupt pdf given unusual pdf inclusions.
+ <!--l. 4320--><p class="noindent" >Avoid writing a corrupt pdf given unusual pdf inclusions.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4307--><p class="noindent" >Manual converted to LaTeX and thoroughly reviewed, though substantive updates
+ <!--l. 4321--><p class="noindent" >Manual converted to LaTeX and thoroughly reviewed, though substantive updates
are minimal.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4311--><p class="noindent" >epTeX, eupTeX: </p>
+<!--l. 4325--><p class="noindent" >epTeX, eupTeX: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4312--><p class="noindent" >New simple encoding conversion utility <span
+ <!--l. 4326--><p class="noindent" >New simple encoding conversion utility <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">ptekf</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4313--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 4327--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">eptex </span>no longer built separately; it runs in <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">euptex</span>’s legacy-encoding mode.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4317--><p class="noindent" >Dvipdfmx: </p>
+<!--l. 4331--><p class="noindent" >Dvipdfmx: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4318--><p class="noindent" >Calculate time zone offset in the same way as pdfTeX.
+ <!--l. 4332--><p class="noindent" >Calculate time zone offset in the same way as pdfTeX.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4319--><p class="noindent" >Handle variation selectors to cope with the new Adobe-Japan1-UCS2 CMap.
+ <!--l. 4333--><p class="noindent" >Handle variation selectors to cope with the new Adobe-Japan1-UCS2 CMap.
+
+
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4320--><p class="noindent" >Fallback multibyte characters in virtual fonts to OFM fonts for (u)pTeX.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4323--><p class="noindent" >Kpathsea: </p>
+ <!--l. 4334--><p class="noindent" >Fallback multibyte characters in virtual fonts to OFM fonts for (u)pTeX.</p></li></ul>
+<!--l. 4337--><p class="noindent" >Kpathsea: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4324--><p class="noindent" >Support an extended check for safe filenames which also allows writing under
+ <!--l. 4338--><p class="noindent" >Support an extended check for safe filenames which also allows writing under
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMF</span>[<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">SYS</span>]<span
@@ -7721,67 +7741,67 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">kpsewhich</span>
options.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4327--><p class="noindent" >Support a new variable <span
+ <!--l. 4341--><p class="noindent" >Support a new variable <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMF_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY </span>(alongside the traditional
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFOUTPUT</span>), so that subprograms can have access to an <span
-class="ec-lmtt-12">–output-directory</span>
+class="ec-lmtt-12">--output-directory</span>
setting in an engine invocation.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4332--><p class="noindent" >CWEB: </p>
+<!--l. 4346--><p class="noindent" >CWEB: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
-
-
- <!--l. 4333--><p class="noindent" >Support LuaTeX as backend TeX engine.
+ <!--l. 4347--><p class="noindent" >Support LuaTeX as backend TeX engine.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4334--><p class="noindent" >Fix buffer overflow on lines with no breakpoint.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4337--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 4348--><p class="noindent" >Fix buffer overflow on lines with no breakpoint.</p></li></ul>
+<!--l. 4351--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlmgr</span>: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4338--><p class="noindent" >New action <span
+ <!--l. 4352--><p class="noindent" >New action <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">bug </span>to help find bug-reporting information.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4339--><p class="noindent" >Use our own root certificate bundle on all platforms, to support LWP more widely,
+ <!--l. 4353--><p class="noindent" >Use our own root certificate bundle on all platforms, to support LWP more widely,
notably on macOS.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4341--><p class="noindent" >Detect a remote repository older than the local installation (i.e., a stale mirror),
+ <!--l. 4355--><p class="noindent" >Detect a remote repository older than the local installation (i.e., a stale mirror),
and don’t update, to avoid incorrect package removals.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4343--><p class="noindent" >Support ConTeXt paper size setting.
+ <!--l. 4357--><p class="noindent" >Support ConTeXt paper size setting.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4344--><p class="noindent" >Prune backups of tlpdb files for mirrored repositories (main and tlcontrib).</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4348--><p class="noindent" >MacTeX: now contains the latest Ghostscript 10.02.1, updates of all four GUI programs, along
+ <!--l. 4358--><p class="noindent" >Prune backups of tlpdb files for mirrored repositories (main and tlcontrib).</p></li></ul>
+<!--l. 4362--><p class="noindent" >MacTeX: now contains the latest Ghostscript 10.02.1, updates of all four GUI programs, along
with (as always) all new TL changes. The binaries still support macOS 10.14 (Mojave, 2018)
and later. (As usual, earlier Mac versions are supported by the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">x86_64-darwinlegacy</span>
binaries, which are part of TL, but not MacTeX.)
-</p><!--l. 4355--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 4369--><p class="noindent" >
+
+
</p>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.3 </span> <a
id="x1-940009.3"></a>Future</h4>
-<!--l. 4357--><p class="noindent" >We intend to continue to release new versions of TeX Live, and would like to provide more
+<!--l. 4371--><p class="noindent" >We intend to continue to release new versions of TeX Live, and would like to provide more
documentation, more programs, an ever-improved and better-checked tree of macros and fonts,
and anything else TeX. This work is all done by volunteers in their spare time, and there is
always more to do. Please see <a
href="https://tug.org/texlive/contribute.html" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/texlive/contribute.html</span></a>.
-</p><!--l. 4363--><p class="indent" > Please send corrections, suggestions, and offers of help to:
+</p><!--l. 4377--><p class="indent" > Please send corrections, suggestions, and offers of help to:
</p><blockquote class="quote">
- <!--l. 4365--><p class="noindent" > <a
+ <!--l. 4379--><p class="noindent" > <a
href="mailto:tex-live@tug.org" ><span class="path"><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tex-live@tug.org</span></span></a> <span
class="ec-lmr-10x-x-109">(you need not subscribe in order to post)</span><br
class="newline" /><a
href="https://tug.org/texlive" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/texlive</span></a></p></blockquote>
-<!--l. 4370--><p class="noindent" ><span
+<!--l. 4384--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmro-12">Happy TeXing!</span>
</p>
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.pdf b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.pdf
index 3921483b454..dcc896579a7 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.pdf
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.pdf
Binary files differ
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.tex
index fa04bc7867b..8b3ec6e1934 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.tex
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.tex
@@ -4137,7 +4137,7 @@ for transparency.
\end{itemize*}
Dvips: By default, do not attempt automatic media adjustment for rotated
-paper sizes; the new option \texttt{--landscaperotate} re-enables.
+paper sizes; the new option \texttt{-{}-landscaperotate} re-enables.
\code{upmendex}: Experimental support for Arabic and Hebrew scripts;
improved character classification and language support.
@@ -4239,7 +4239,8 @@ corresponding up\TeX{} versions, running in compatibility mode.
computation when \cs{XeTeXupwardsmode} is active; the cross-engine
``late \cs{special}'' described above.
-\noindent Dvipdfmx: new option \texttt{--pdfm-str-utf8} to make pdfmark and/or bookmark.
+\noindent Dvipdfmx: new option \texttt{-{}-pdfm-str-utf8} to make
+pdfmark and/or bookmark.
\noindent \BibTeX{}u: \begin{itemize*}
\item This Bib\TeX{} variant is mostly upward-compatible with \BibTeX,
@@ -4292,12 +4293,25 @@ longer supports i386.
\subsection{Present: 2024}
\label{sec:tlcurrent}
-\noindent Lua\TeX: Lua-level checks for writing to files now similar to
-the \TeX-level checks.
+Cross-engine changes (except in original \TeX{} and e-\TeX{}):
+\begin{itemize*}
+\item Avoid crashes on devious use of \cs{output} and \cs{write} braces.
+\item Tiny inner-loop optimization. (Both these changes are due to
+David Fuchs.)
+\end{itemize*}
+
+\noindent Lua\TeX: \begin{itemize*}
+\item Lua-level checks for writing to files now similar to the
+\TeX-level checks.
+\item If \cs{tracingmacros} is 256 or more, blank lines are output in
+the log between macro parameters. In 2020--2023, this was the case by
+default; before that, such blank lines were never output, which is the
+behavior of the other engines.
+\end{itemize*}
\noindent MetaPost: \begin{itemize*}\raggedright
\item MPFI library now included for interval arithmetic; enabled with
-\texttt{--numbersystem=interval}.
+\texttt{-{}-numbersystem=interval}.
\end{itemize*}
\noindent pdf\TeX: \begin{itemize*}
@@ -4326,7 +4340,7 @@ writing under \code{TEXMF}[\code{SYS}]\code{VAR}, for Lua\AllTeX{}; new
functions and corresponding \code{kpsewhich} options.
\item Support a new variable \code{TEXMF\_OUTPUT\_DIRECTORY} (alongside
the traditional \code{TEXMFOUTPUT}), so that subprograms can have access to an
-\texttt{--output-directory} setting in an engine invocation.
+\texttt{-{}-output-directory} setting in an engine invocation.
\end{itemize*}
\noindent CWEB: \begin{itemize*}