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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2006-01-17 21:41:51 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2006-01-17 21:41:51 +0000 |
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diff --git a/Build/source/texk/web2c/NEWS b/Build/source/texk/web2c/NEWS new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..29317455abe --- /dev/null +++ b/Build/source/texk/web2c/NEWS @@ -0,0 +1,398 @@ +This file records noteworthy changes. +7.5.5 +* BibTeX: dynamically resize the buffer (and related arrays). +* MP: Version 0.9 +* mpware: Brought to the equivalent of version 0.9. +* e-TeX, Aleph, pdfeTeX: You can use -ini -etex to start etex mode now + instead of prepending an asterisk. + +7.5.4 (6 February 2005) +* TeX: \ifeof18 is false if \write18 is enabled. +* MF, MP: Prevent pathological code from overflowing the "serial number" + counter for independent variables. + +7.5.3 (28 November 2004) +* ctie: New program, from Julian Gilbey. +* TeX, MF, MP: We now save the name of the engine in the dump, in + order to be able to give better error messages in case a dump + written by another engine is being read. +* TeX, MF, MP: We now dump the xord, xchr, and xprn arrays, so if + if a TCX file was loaded in INI mode, that will be retained + when the dump is loaded. (Doesn't apply to Omega family.) +* TeX, MF, MP: Add -8bit option, which makes all characters + printable by default. Note that a TCX file can change this. + (Doesn't apply to Omega family.) +* TeX, MF, MP: In TCX files, a third number (0 or 1) can be + used to set printability. (Doesn't apply to Omega family.) +* TeX: Include encTeX extension. +* mft: Allow more than one -style option. +* pdfxTeX: New. +* DVItoMP: Now supports color specials, like those added by the + colordvi package. Note that this feature should be considered + experimental, and may change in the future. +* PATGEN: Peter Breitenlohner fixed some typos in text in patgen.web. + +7.5.2 (19 February 2003) +* e-TeX: Remove last bits of support for installing it as 'tex'. +* Makefile fixes. + +7.5.1 (17 February 2003) +* New upstream sources from Knuth. +* Lots of little fixes to the new makefiles. + +7.5.0 (15 February 2003) +* Use libtool. +* Use e-TeX, pdfeTeX as the engine for the latex, pdflatex format. + +7.4.6 (7 February 2003) +* Makefile structure changed. +* e-Omega: New + +7.4.5 (28 January 2003) +* TeX: Obey locale setting only for terminal and log file. +* METAFONT, MetaPost: Do not care about locale settings at all. + +7.4.4 (16 January 2003) +* TeX: Increase maximum size of max_strings, main_memory, and pool_size. + +7.4.3 (11 January 2003) +* CWEB: Add --help and --version options. +* CWEB: Support both .w and and .web suffixes. +* CWEB: When adding #line directives, put in the path, not just the filename. + +7.4.2 (23 December 2002) +* Minor fixes to makefiles. + +7.4.1 (20 December 2002) +* cweave: Fixed hangs caused by wrong argument order in two prototypes. + +7.4.0 (14 December 2002) +* Using 7.4.x numbers now because the interface of kpathsea has changed in + ABI-incompatible ways. +* share/*: Stop shipping fontmap files and tcx files in the web2c tarball. +* CWEB: Add protypes to code through the change files. +* BibTeX: Names ending in 'aux' were not handled correctly. +* METAPost: Handle date and time privitives correctly, instead of having + them give the date of the mem file. + +7.3.11 (13 November 2002) +* BibTeX: purify$ would strip characters with code >= 128 from its argument. + This has now changed to just passing them through. This should have no + effect if you don't use such characters in the input, but may result in + different output otherwise. Note that other aspects, like proper sorting + of such characters are not handled at all. +* CWEB: Increase the maximum length of the names of the input files. + +7.3.10 (11 November 2002) +* Added the CWEB programs. Thanks to Wlodek Bzyl. + +7.3.9 (22 October 2002) +* TeX, METAFONT, METAPost: Add --jobname option to set the jobname. This + supercedes the use of --fmt, --efmt, --mem, and --base to set the name of + the format to be dumped in ini mode. +* TANGLE: New options --length, --lowercase, --uppercase, --mixedcase, + --underline, --strict, --loose. These affect the output generated by + tangle. + +7.3.8 (11 October 2002) +* BibTeX: do not split \% in an output line. +* TeX: mention active extensions. +* TeX: change name/banner if extensions that break strict compatibility with + Knuth's TeX are active. +* web2c: splitup now uses a command-line switch to determine how after + how many lines it should split the sources. + +7.3.7 (27 November 2001) +* Minor release, again incorporates internal changes to help Omega. +* Update of the fontmaps. + +7.3.6 (18 November 2001) +* Minor release, again incorporates internal changes to help Omega. +* TeX, METAFONT, MetaPost: + New option --recorder which enables a filename recorder. A file + with extension .fls is created which contains the names of the + files opened for reading or writing. + +7.3.5 (10 November 2001) +* Minor release, incorporate many changes due to developments of Omega. + These are mainly internal. + +7.3.4 (30 October 2001) +* Minor release, incorporates most of the features also in TeX-live 6, + which is known as release 7.3.3.1. +* TANGLE: As an extension, you can define parametric macros where '[' and ']' + delimit the argument. +* MFT: Support METAPOST sources. +* MPTO: Add -tex=program option. Buffer is now configurable. + +7.3.3 (5 August 2000) +* Minor release. +* METAFONT: Obey buf_size from texmf.cnf instead of using a hard-coded value. + +7.3.2 (19 April 2000) +* Minor release containing bugfixes for 7.3.1. Web2C 7.3.1 was not released + on CTAN, only in teTeX 1.0 +* The TeX-live 5 CD contains Web2C 7.3.1x, which is based on the 7.3.1 release + and contains some changes that have yet to be merged into the main tree. In + particular, the code for "C-style" error messages and the code for source + specials has not been merged yet. + +7.3.1 (30 May 1999) +* Minor release containing bugfixes for 7.3. Web2C 7.3 was not released + on CTAN, only on the TeX-live 4 CD. + +7.3 (26 March 1999) +* New upstream sources from Knuth. +* TeX, METAFONT, MetaPost: + (Re)introduction of TCX files. +* Increased capacity of several programs. +* Support for pdfeTeX added. +* Long-standing bugs in VFtoPL and TFtoPL, which led to corrupted TFM + files being generated, have been fixed. + +7.2 (15 March 1998) +* New upstream version of MetaPost: 0.64. +* TeX, METAFONT, MetaPost: + Allow for more restrictions on the files written by \openout. +* TeX, METAFONT, MetaPost: + New option --interaction, which can be used to set batchmode, nonstopmode, + scrollmode, or errorstopmode. Thus we can replace a construct like + tex '\batchmode \input foo' + with + tex --interaction=batchmode foo + and have a %&format line select the correct format. +* When %&format selects a format, the search paths are changed to conform + to that format. +* TeX, METAFONT, MetaPost: + During an "ini" run, the name of the format to be dumped can be set with + the --fmt/--efmt/--base/--mem options. +* web2c: Extensive support for building e-TeX, Omega, a PDFTeX. +* web2c: The manual pages are back. + +7.1 (10 November 1997) +* Some MSDOS/Win32 support added to the sources. +* BibTeX: increased capacity. +* VPtoVF: Increased capacity. +* TeX, METAFONT, MetaPost: + - File foo.bar.tex results in \jobname foo.bar, hence foo.bar.{log,dvi,...}. + This as opposed to foo and foo.{log,dvi,...} which it how it used to be in + version 6. In 7.0 situation was confusing, as the heuristics used would + sometimes result in the extension being stripped, sometimes not. +* TeX: + - The -extend-jobname option has been removed. + - Printing of non-ASCII characters in diagnostics, code by Bernd Raichle. + - All three of LF, CR, and CRLF are recognized end-of-line tokens. +* web2c: + - Some support for e-TeX added to convert. + +7.0 (6 February 1997) +* Update from Knuth for tex, mf, dvitype, pltotf, vptovf, and tangle, + John Hobby's MetaPost (and support programs) included, + update from P. Breitenlohner to dvicopy 1.5 and patgen 2.3. +* Update for kpathsea 3.0. +* Texinfo manual written. +* Amiga, OS/2, Windows NT support in the sources. +* TeX: + - if -shell-escape or shell_escape in texmf.cnf is enabled, + \write18{str} passes str to system(3) for processing by sh. + - MLTeX extensions (\charsubdef, etc.) can be enabled at runtime. + - Many array sizes can be set dynamically, in texmf.cnf. + - MakeTeXTFM installed and enabled by default. + - IPC communications to an external program for incremental DVI reading. + - texfonts.map applies to TFM files, as originally intended. + - More than 256 fonts are allowed. + - DVI comment (with timestamp) can be overridden. + - tex.web's consistency checks on .fmt files restored. +* Metafont: + - A few array sizes can be set dynamically, in texmf.cnf. + - X11 support disabled by default; configure --with-x to enable it. + - MakeTeXMF enabled and installed by default. +* TeX, Metafont, MetaPost: + - If the first line of the main input file starts with %&, the rest of + the line is used as the fmt/base/mem file (if it can be found), + except that %&ini means initex/inimf/inimpost. + - One binary: initex/mf/mpost capabilities merged with virtex/mf/mpost. + - New option -progname sets program name independently of argv[0]. + - Eight-bit filenames are output correctly in ^^ notation, instead of + always being simplified to ^^@. + - MakeTeX* scripts can be named and disabled via texmf.cnf. + - MakeTeX* scripts are silent if \batchmode is in effect. + - TEXMFINI environment variable checked for pool/fmt/base/mem lookups. + - \openout (TeX) and write (MP) by default will not write to files + whose names start with `.'. + - ``Small'' versions no longer supported without source hacking. + - Length bug regarding single non-ASCII characters in MF and MP fixed. +* BibTeX: + - Some arrays dynamically reallocated as needed, other sizes increased. + - Default behavior is verbose; new -terse option changes that. + - Statistics are written to the .blg file. + - Does not look at TEXINPUTS to find .bst files, but does check + TEXBIB (after BIBINPUTS). + - Does not interactively ask for the top-level .aux name. +* All programs: + - Supply default extensions and default output files. + - Support the standard --help and --version options. + - Filenames not arbitrarily restricted in length. + - Output written in the current directory, not the directory of + an input file. (Most interesting for tangle.) + - Times-Roman etc. work as font names, via texfonts.map and subsidiaries. +* dvitype prints decimal opcode numbers with --show-opcodes. +* bibtex and gftodvi never interactively ask for filenames; + dvitype and dvicopy do not enter interactive dialogues. +* mft looks in MFTINPUTS, not TEXINPUTS. +* Configuration: + - Optional features are enabled via configure --with-* and --enable-* + options. Run configure --help. + - There is no small TeX, Metafont, or MetaPost. If you want it, you'll + have to change the change files, #define SMALL* yourself, and do + whatever else is necessary yourself. +* Source hierarchy substantially simplified. +* Web2c: + - Support for ifndef...endifn, a la ifdef. + - Support for const expressions. + - Can generate ANSI code. + +Version 6.1 (3 February 1994) +* foo.bar found before foo.tex (found before foo). +* configure links sun.c to sun-sunview.c if SUNWIN is defined. +* -DLONG_64_BITS is supplied automatically (if appropriate). +* Various changes for configure --srcdir. +* Sample MakeTeX* scripts included. + +Version 6.0 (24 January 1994) +* Default paths changed. +* Update for TeX 3.1415, etc. +* Change to use the kpathsea library, a la dvipsk and xdvik. + +* TeX's \openin command invokes MakeTeXTeX just like \input. + +* TeX & Metafont: + - 16-byte values can be dumped, thus allowing native `long' on the DEC Alpha. + - But 32-bit integers are used if sharable format files are desired, + even on 64-bit machines. + - Interrupts are accepted when waiting for input. + +* Online output support in Metafont for Regis terminals and the NeXT. +* gftopk can handle characters with up to 100,000 rows. +* vftovp's -charcode-format=ascii works properly. +* patgen doesn't give bizarre numeric output where it should be text. + +* configuration: + - -lX11 is used for OpenWindows. + - The MakeTeX... scripts are individually selectable by default, and + can always be invoked if certain environment variables are set. + - The subdirectory trick using st_nlink can be turned off. + +* Makefiles: + - man/Makefile doesn't remove itself at `clean'. + - {tex,mf}/clean-tr[ia]p doesn't reinstall a {tex,mf}d.h with the test + constants. + - web2c/Makefile removes lex and yacc output at `clean'. + - mkdirchain invoked as an absolute filename. + +* web2c: + - sync is no longer invoked; instead the Makefiles touch texd.h and + mfd.h after they are finished. + +Version 5.851d (22 February 1993) + +* A file `texfonts.map' allows arbitrary mapping of font names (as given + to, for instance, \font) to filenames. + +* Metafont & TeX: + - If a .tex, .tfm, or .mf file can't be found, MakeTeX{TeX,TFM,MF} is + invoked before giving up, as in dvips' MakeTeXPK. + - Sharable format/base files load faster on LittleEndian machines. + - TEXMFOUTPUT is only used for those files which can't be written in + the current directory, instead of all files after the first such. + Its usage is also reflected in the `... written on ...' messages at + the end of the run. + - If the DISPLAY environment variable is set, Metafont assumes you are + running under X11 for the purposes of online output (instead of + relying on the TERM or MFTERM envvar). + - Checks for write errors on DVI/GF output. + - Unusual glue values no longer make TeX dump core on some systems. + +* BibTeX: + - The cross-reference feature works as documented (I had foolishly + changed the default value of min_crossrefs to eliminate it). + - New option -min-crossrefs=<number> to change it dynamically. + - New option -verbose; without it, normal reportage is eliminated. + - Maximum number of .bib files increased to 100. + - Non-printable-ASCII characters in .bib files are preserved. + +* TeXware: + - tftopl adds a default extension `.tfm' to the input file if necessary. + +* web2c: + - Unsigned types are used where possible to represent Pascal + subranges. Among other things, this eliminates a system dependency + in creating format/base files (small_number was defined as `schar', + which varies between systems). + +* configuration: + - Unpacks into web2c-<version> instead of src-<version>.*. + - site.h merged into lib/c-auto.h.in and ./Makefile.in. + - sed is used instead of patch to make the ``small'' change files. + - sed is used instead of ed to make the trip/trap files. + - The configure script looks in more directories for the X libraries + and include files, and is generated from the latest version of Autoconf. + - mfware and texware directories merged into the others. + - The web2c version is defined in one place, so system information can + be added to the banners more easily. + +* Makefiles: + - Makefiles in subdirectories are created by configure. + - $(srcdir) (i.e., compiling in a different directory) is closer to working. + - Stamp files are not used at the top level, or for {tex,mf}/convert. + - New targets install-data and install-exec, to only install + architecture-(in)dependent files. + +* PROBLEMS.W2C has some notes on compiling and using these programs + under DOS, contributed by melvin@math.psu.edu. + +* The man pages have been significantly updated and improved by + beebe@math.utah.edu. + +* The original web files haven't changed. + +Release 4.893b: +* Include patches from Tim to web2c to turn off the verbose output, + unless -d is supplied to web2c. +* Change $(AR) in the MFwindow Makefile to `ar'. +* Try to get the base file from the program name in Metafont, as well in + TeX. Implication: mf.script and tex.script are no longer supplied, + since a link to plain.{base,fmt} named {mf,tex}.{base,fmt} suffices. + `make install' doesn't create these links, since they only need to be + done once. +* Move some stuff from site.h that should never be changed to a new + file, defaults.h. Add a new definition, SIGNAL_HANDLER_RETURN_TYPE, to + site.h, to get rid of the warnings in {tex,mf}/extra.c. +* Use a sed script, contributed by eggert@twinsun.com, instead of the + awk script, at the beginning of the pipeline. +* Fix an unsigned comparison problem in pltotf, that made cc produce + infinite ligature loops when converting trip.pl. +* Change threshold in Metafont, and f in tftopl, so broken C compilers + (like some versions of pcc) don't get confused. +* Port vftovp and vptovf. Move pktogf and pktype to fontutil. +* Allow more than 500 kern pairs in pltotf. +* Change the first parameter to {mf,extra}/extra.c to *filename from + filename[]. +* Use a better hack for the mutually recursive procedures in pltotf et al., + from Tor Lillqvist <tml@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi>. + +Release 2.993+1.9 = 4.893a: +Sebastian contributed the updates to ctex.ch, tftopl.ch, and pltotf.ch. +Karl did the cmf.ch update. + +Release 3.0: +Brings everything up to the new 8-bit versions. +Almost every file has changed at least somewhat, so I'm not going to +list all the changes. Here are some highlights: +* char is now 0..255 instead of 0..127 in *.defines. +* `packed' is no longer ignored as part of an identifier (e.g., `packed_trie'). +* new Makefiles to make it easier to do the trip/trap test, and with all + the support programs integrated. +* ctex.ch has a hack to get around trie_op_hash being an array with a + negative lower bound. +* pltotf.ch has a hack to get around mutually recursive routines. |