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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/ltnews04.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/ltnews04.tex new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..ea81f7d5320 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/ltnews04.tex @@ -0,0 +1,143 @@ +% \iffalse meta-comment +% +% Copyright 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 +% 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 1.3 +% 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 1.3 or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX +% version 2003/12/01 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: ltnews04.tex + +% This is issue 4 of LaTeX News. + +\documentclass +% [lw35fonts] + {ltnews} + + +\publicationmonth{December} +\publicationyear{1995} +\publicationissue{4} + +\begin{document} + +\maketitle + +\section{Welcome to \LaTeXNews~4} + +An issue of \emph{\LaTeXNews} will accompany every future release of +\LaTeX. It will tell you about important events, such as major bug +fixes, newly available packages, or any other \LaTeX{} news. +This issue accompanies the fourth release of \LaTeXe. + + +\section{\LaTeX\ getting smaller} + +The last release in June started a trend of \LaTeX\ becoming +smaller, we are pleased to announce that this has continued with this +release. In particular the experimental `autoload' version described in +\texttt{autoload.txt} is much smaller as more parts of \LaTeX\ are +autoloaded. + +\section{New `concurrent' docstrip} + +The time taken to `unpack' this release from the documented sources +should be much reduced (roughly half the time, depending on +installation conditions). This is due to an improved version of the +docstrip program that has been contributed by Marcin Woli\'nski. +This can write up to 16 files at once. The +previous version could only write one file at a time which meant that +it was very slow when producing many small files from the same source +file as the source needed to be re-read for each file written. + +\section{New T1 encoded fonts} + +This year J\"org Knappen has completed a new release of the `Cork' +(T1) encoded Computer Modern fonts: the dc fonts release 1.2. + +This release of the dc fonts fixes many bugs (including the missing +\verb|?`| (?`) and \verb|!`| (!`) ligatures) and improves the fonts in +many other ways. It is strongly recommended that you upgrade as soon as +possible if currently you are using the old dc fonts, release 1.1 or +earlier. The new fonts are available from the CTAN archives, in +\texttt{tex-archive/fonts/dc}. + +The names of the font files are \emph{different}. This does not affect +\LaTeX\ documents but \emph{does} affect the installation procedure as +it assumes that you have the \emph{new} fonts, and will write suitable +`fd' files for those fonts. If you have not yet upgraded your dc fonts +then, after unpacking the distribution, you \emph{must} +\verb|latex olddc.ins| to produce `fd' files for the old dc fonts. +This must be done \emph{before} the format is made. Running the test +document at \texttt{ltxcheck.tex} the end of the installation will +inform you if the wrong set of `fd' files has been installed. + +Note that this change does not affect the standard `OT1' Computer +Modern fonts that \LaTeX\ uses by default. + +\section{More robust commands} + +The commands \verb|\cite| and \verb|\sqrt| are now robust. + +Although most commands with optional arguments are fragile, as +documented, such commands defined using the second optional argument +of \verb|\newcommand| and its derivatives are now \emph{robust}. + +\section{New Interface to building `extension' classes} + +The mechanism provided by \verb|\DeclareOption|, \verb|\ProcessOptions| +and \verb|\LoadClass| has proved to be a powerful and expressive means +of defining one class in terms of another `base' class. However there +have been some requests to simplify the declaration of the common case +where you want the `base' class to be called with \emph{all} the +options that were specified to the extension class. This is now +provided by the new command \verb|\LoadClassWithOptions|. A similar +command \verb|\RequirePackageWithOptions| is provided for package use. +More details of this feature are provided in \texttt{clsguide.tex} and +\texttt{ltclass.dtx}. + +\section{More Input Encodings} + +The experimental \texttt{inputenc} package allows a more natural style +of input of accented and other characters. + +Three new input encodings are now supported. +\begin{itemize} +\item \texttt{ansinew} the Windows ansi encoding, + as used in Microsoft Windows 3.x. +\item \texttt{cp437de} a variant of \texttt{cp437}, which uses \ss\ + rather than $\beta$ in the appropriate slot. +\item \texttt{next} the encoding used on Next computers. +\end{itemize} + +\section{Further information} + +For more information on \TeX{} and \LaTeX, get in touch with your local +\TeX{} Users Group, or the international \TeX{} Users Group, +1850 Union Street, \#1637, San Francisco, CA~94123, USA, +Fax:~+1~415~982~8559, +EMail:~tug@tug.org. +The \LaTeX{} home page is \verb|http://www.tex.ac.uk/ctan/latex/| +and contains links to other WWW resources for \LaTeX. + +\end{document} |