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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2006-08-27 18:16:22 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2006-08-27 18:16:22 +0000 |
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/ltnews14.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/ltnews14.tex deleted file mode 100644 index cb37ba193b7..00000000000 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/ltnews14.tex +++ /dev/null @@ -1,169 +0,0 @@ -% \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: ltnews14.tex -% -% This is issue 14 of LaTeX News. - -\documentclass -% [lw35fonts] % uncomment this line to get Palatino - {ltnews}[2001/07/12] - -% \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} - -\publicationmonth{June} -\publicationyear{2001} -\publicationissue{14} - - -\begin{document} - -\maketitle - -\raisefirstsection -\section{Future releases} - -We are currently exploring how to best support the very large -community of individuals, organisations and enterprises that depend on -the robustness and availability of the current standard \LaTeX{} -distribution. The results of this may lead to some changes in the -regular release schedule and the handling of bug reports during the -next year. - -\section{New release of \textsf{Babel} (required)} - -Earlier this year a new release of \textsf{Babel} (3.7) became -available. You can read about its new features in -\begin{latexonly} - \file{http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/}\\ - \hspace*{4em}\file{latex/required/babel/announce.txt} -\end{latexonly} -\begin{htmlonly} - \url{http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/babel/announce.txt} -\end{htmlonly} - -One of the bugs that got fixed in this release deals with how labels -are handled by \LaTeX{}. Because this part of the kernel is modified -by \textsf{babel}, the relevant changes need to be coordinated. -Therefore to use \textsf{Babel} with this release of \LaTeX{} you will -need to update your version of \textsf{babel} to at least 3.7. - -\section{New input encoding \package{latin9}} - -The package \package{inputenc} has, thanks to Karsten Tinnefeld, been -extended to cover the \package{latin9} input encoding. The -ISO-Latin~9 encoding is a useful modern replacement for ISO-Latin~1 -that contains a few characters needed for French and Finnish. Of wider -interest, it also contains the euro currency sign; this could be the -killer argument for many 8-bit texts to use Latin-9 in the future. - -According to a Linux manpage, ISO~Latin-9 supports Albanian, Basque, -Breton, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, -French, Frisian, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Icelandic, Irish -Gaelic, Italian, Latin, Luxemburgish, Norwegian, Portuguese, -Rhaeto-Romanic, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish and Swedish.\\ -The characters added in \package{latin9} are (in \LaTeX{} notation):\\ -\begin{small} -\verb| \texteuro \v S \v s \v Z \v z \OE \oe \" Y | -\end{small}\\ -They displace the following characters from \package{latin1}:\\ -\begin{small} -\verb| \textcurrency \textbrokenbar \"{} \'{} \c{} |\\ -\verb| \textonequarter \textonehalf \textthreequarters | -\end{small} - - -\section{New tools} - -The new package \package{trace} provides many commands to control -\LaTeX{}'s tracing and debugging output, including the excellent new -information available with \eTeX{} such as the extremely useful -tracing of local assignments. You will find it in the tools -distribution. - -It offers the command \verb|\traceon|, which is similar to -\verb|\tracingall| but suppresses uninteresting stuff such as font -loading by NFSS (which can go on for pages if you are unlucky). It -also offers \verb|\traceoff| to \ldots\ guess what! Full details are -in the documented source file, \file{trace.dtx}. - -In the base \package{ifthen} package we have added -the uppercase synonyms \verb|\NOT| \verb|\AND| and \verb|\OR|. - -\section{New experimental code} - -In \textit{\LaTeX{} News~12} we announced some ongoing work towards a -`Designer Interface for \LaTeX' and we presented some early results -thereof. Since then, at Gutenberg\,2000 in Toulouse and TUG\,2000 in -Oxford, we described a new output routine and an improved method of -handling vertical mode material between paragraphs. In combination -these support higher quality \emph{automated}\footnote - {The stress here is on automated!} -page-breaking and page make-up\latex{\\} -for complex pages---the best yet achieved with \TeX{}! - -More recently we have added material to handle the complex front -matter requirements of journal articles; this was presented at -Gutenberg\,2001 in Metz. - -A paper describing the new output routine is -\begin{latexonly} - at\\ -\begin{small} - \file{http://www.latex-project.org/papers/xo-pfloat.pdf}\\ -\end{small} -\end{latexonly} -\begin{htmlonly} - at \url{http://www.latex-project.org/papers/xo-pfloat.pdf}. -\end{htmlonly} -All code examples and documentation are available -\begin{latexonly} - at\\ -\begin{small} - \file{http://www.latex-project.org/code/experimental} -\end{small} -\end{latexonly} -\begin{htmlonly} - at \url{http://www.latex-project.org/code/experimental/}. -\end{htmlonly} - -This directory has been extended to contain the following. -\begin{description} - \item[galley] Prototype implementation of the interface\latex{\\} - for manipulating vertical material in galleys. - \item[xinitials] Prototype implementation of the interface\latex{\\} - for paragraph initials (needs the \texttt{galley} package). - \item[xtheorem] Contributed example using the \texttt{template} - package to provide a designer interface for theorem environments. - \item[xor] A prototype implementation of the new output routine - as described in the \texttt{xo-pfloat.pdf} paper. - \item[xfrontm] A prototype version of - the new font matter interface. -\end{description} - -\end{document} |