2011 news

git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@22659 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751

3 files changed, 67 insertions, 27 deletions

diff --git a/Master/texmf/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.html b/Master/texmf/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.html
index b47c6eb1e27..e78ed9ef4e2 100644
--- a/Master/texmf/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.html
+++ b/Master/texmf/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.html
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ TeX Live 2011</title>
 <meta name="originator" content="TeX4ht (http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~gurari/TeX4ht/)"> 
 <!-- charset=iso-8859-1,html,info,fn-in --> 
 <meta name="src" content="texlive-en.tex"> 
-<meta name="date" content="2011-05-21 01:13:00"> 
+<meta name="date" content="2011-05-29 01:30:00"> 
 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="texlive-en.css"> 
 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="texlive-en.css" > 
 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="tex-live.css" > 
@@ -202,10 +202,12 @@ href="#x1-760009.1.4" id="QQ2-1-90">2006&#8211;2007</a></span>
 href="#x1-770009.1.5" id="QQ2-1-91">2008</a></span>
 <br />   &#x00A0;&#x00A0;<span class="subsubsectionToc" >9.1.6 <a 
 href="#x1-780009.1.6" id="QQ2-1-92">2009</a></span>
+<br />   &#x00A0;&#x00A0;<span class="subsubsectionToc" >9.1.7 <a 
+href="#x1-790009.1.7" id="QQ2-1-93">2010</a></span>
 <br />   &#x00A0;<span class="subsectionToc" >9.2 <a 
-href="#x1-790009.2" id="QQ2-1-93">Present</a></span>
+href="#x1-800009.2" id="QQ2-1-94">Present</a></span>
 <br />   &#x00A0;<span class="subsectionToc" >9.3 <a 
-href="#x1-800009.3" id="QQ2-1-94">Future</a></span>
+href="#x1-810009.3" id="QQ2-1-95">Future</a></span>
    </div>
 <!--l. 32--><p class="noindent" >
    <h3 class="sectionHead"><span class="titlemark">1   </span> <a 
@@ -2300,7 +2302,7 @@ class="E">E</span>X</span>  Live&#x00A0;2010,  execution  of  a  few  external
      programs is allowed by default. The (very short) list of allowed programs is given in the <span 
 class="ec-lmtt-10">texmf.cnf</span>.
      See the 2010 news (section&#x00A0;<a 
-href="#x1-790009.2">9.2<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:2010news --></a>) for more details.
+href="#x1-790009.1.7">9.1.7<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:2010news --></a>) for more details.
      </dd><dt class="description">
 <span 
 class="ec-lmbx-10">create format files:</span> </dt><dd 
@@ -6123,10 +6125,10 @@ class="E">E</span>X</span> Live, along with ancillary material such as CD&#x00A0
 available at <a 
 href="ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive" class="url" ><span 
 class="ec-lmtt-10">ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive</span></a>.
-<!--l. 3190--><p class="indent" >   <a id="news"></a>
-   <h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.2   </span> <a 
- id="x1-790009.2"></a>Present</h4>
-<!--l. 3195--><p class="noindent" >In 2010, the default version for PDF output is now 1.5, enabling more compression. This applies to all the
+<!--l. 3189--><p class="noindent" >
+   <h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.7   </span> <a 
+ id="x1-790009.1.7"></a>2010</h5>
+<!--l. 3192--><p class="noindent" >In 2010, the default version for PDF output is now 1.5, enabling more compression. This applies to all the
 <span class="TEX">T<span 
 class="E">E</span>X</span>&#x00A0;engines when used to produce PDF and to <span 
 class="ec-lmtt-10">dvipdfmx</span>. Loading the <span 
@@ -6136,7 +6138,7 @@ to PDF&#x00A0;1.4, or set <span class="obeylines-h"><span class="verb"><span
 class="ec-lmtt-10">\pdfminorversion=4</span></span></span>.
                                                                                      
                                                                                      
-<!--l. 3200--><p class="indent" >   pdf(L<span 
+<!--l. 3197--><p class="indent" >   pdf(L<span 
 class="ec-lmr-7">A</span> )<span class="TEX">T<span 
 class="E">E</span>X</span>&#x00A0;now <span 
 class="ec-lmri-10">automatically </span>converts a requested Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) file to PDF, via the
@@ -6157,7 +6159,7 @@ class="ec-lmss-10">epstopdf </span>package documentation
 (<a 
 href="http://ctan.org/pkg/epstopdf-pkg" class="url" ><span 
 class="ec-lmtt-10">http://ctan.org/pkg/epstopdf-pkg</span></a>).
-<!--l. 3212--><p class="indent" >   A related change is that execution of a very few external commands from <span class="TEX">T<span 
+<!--l. 3209--><p class="indent" >   A related change is that execution of a very few external commands from <span class="TEX">T<span 
 class="E">E</span>X</span>, via the <span 
 class="ec-lmtt-10">\write18 </span>feature, is
 now enabled by default. These are commands are <span 
@@ -6176,7 +6178,7 @@ class="ec-lmtt-10">&#x00A0;conf</span><span
 class="ec-lmtt-10">&#x00A0;texmf</span><span 
 class="ec-lmtt-10">&#x00A0;shell_escape</span><span 
 class="ec-lmtt-10">&#x00A0;0</span></span></span>.
-<!--l. 3221--><p class="indent" >   Yet another related change is that BibTeX&#x00A0;and Makeindex now refuse to write their output files to an
+<!--l. 3218--><p class="indent" >   Yet another related change is that BibTeX&#x00A0;and Makeindex now refuse to write their output files to an
 arbitrary directory (like <span class="TEX">T<span 
 class="E">E</span>X</span>&#x00A0;itself), by default. This is so they can now be enabled for use by the restricted
 <span 
@@ -6184,18 +6186,18 @@ class="ec-lmtt-10">\write18</span>. To change this, the <span
 class="ec-lmtt-10">TEXMFOUTPUT </span>environment variable can be set, or the <span class="obeylines-h"><span class="verb"><span 
 class="ec-lmtt-10">openout_any</span></span></span> setting
 changed.
-<!--l. 3227--><p class="indent" >   Xe<span class="TEX">T<span 
+<!--l. 3224--><p class="indent" >   Xe<span class="TEX">T<span 
 class="E">E</span>X</span>&#x00A0;now supports margin kerning along the same lines as pdf<span class="TEX">T<span 
 class="E">E</span>X</span>. (Font expansion is not presently
 supported.)
-<!--l. 3230--><p class="indent" >   By default, <span 
+<!--l. 3227--><p class="indent" >   By default, <span 
 class="ec-lmss-10">tlmgr </span>now saves one backup of each package updated (<span 
 class="ec-lmtt-10">tlmgr option autobackup 1</span>), so
 broken packages updates can be easily reverted with <span 
 class="ec-lmtt-10">tlmgr restore</span>. If you do post-install updates, and don&#8217;t
 have the disk space for the backups, run <span 
 class="ec-lmtt-10">tlmgr option autobackup 0</span>.
-<!--l. 3236--><p class="indent" >   New programs included: the p<span class="TEX">T<span 
+<!--l. 3233--><p class="indent" >   New programs included: the p<span class="TEX">T<span 
 class="E">E</span>X</span>&#x00A0;engine and related utilities for typesetting Japanese; the BibTeXU
 program for Unicode-enabled BibTeX; the <span 
 class="ec-lmss-10">chktex </span>utility (<a 
@@ -6208,7 +6210,7 @@ class="ec-lmss-10">dvisvgm </span>(<a
 href="http://dvisvgm.sourceforge.net" class="url" ><span 
 class="ec-lmtt-10">http://dvisvgm.sourceforge.net</span></a>) DVI-to-SVG
 translator.
-<!--l. 3243--><p class="indent" >   Executables for these new platforms are now included: <span 
+<!--l. 3240--><p class="indent" >   Executables for these new platforms are now included: <span 
 class="ec-lmtt-10">amd64-freebsd</span>, <span 
 class="ec-lmtt-10">amd64-kfreebsd</span>, <span 
 class="ec-lmtt-10">i386-freebsd</span>,
@@ -6216,7 +6218,7 @@ class="ec-lmtt-10">i386-freebsd</span>,
 class="ec-lmtt-10">i386-kfreebsd</span>, <span 
 class="ec-lmtt-10">x86_64-darwin</span>, <span 
 class="ec-lmtt-10">x86_64-solaris</span>.
-<!--l. 3247--><p class="indent" >   A change in <span class="TEX">T<span 
+<!--l. 3244--><p class="indent" >   A change in <span class="TEX">T<span 
 class="E">E</span>X</span> Live 2009 that we failed to note: numerous <span class="TEX">T<span 
 class="E">E</span>X</span>4ht-related executables
 (<a 
@@ -6225,15 +6227,33 @@ class="ec-lmtt-10">http://tug.org/tex4ht</span></a>) were removed from the binar
 class="ec-lmtt-10">mk4ht </span>program can be used
 to run any of the various <span 
 class="ec-lmtt-10">tex4ht </span>combinations.
-<!--l. 3252--><p class="indent" >   Finally, the <span class="TEX">T<span 
+<!--l. 3249--><p class="indent" >   Finally, the <span class="TEX">T<span 
 class="E">E</span>X</span> Live release on the <span class="TEX">T<span 
 class="E">E</span>X</span>&#x00A0;Collection&#x00A0;DVD&#x00A0;can no longer be run live (oddly enough). A
 single DVD&#x00A0;no longer has enough room. One beneficial side effect is that installation from the physical
 DVD&#x00A0;is much faster.
-<!--l. 3258--><p class="noindent" >
+<!--l. 3256--><p class="indent" >   <a id="news"></a>
+   <h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.2   </span> <a 
+ id="x1-800009.2"></a>Present</h4>
+<!--l. 3260--><p class="noindent" >2011 saw only a few changes.
+<!--l. 3262--><p class="indent" >   The Mac OS X&#x00A0;binaries (<span 
+class="ec-lmtt-10">universal-darwin </span>and <span 
+class="ec-lmtt-10">x86_64-darwin</span>) now work only on Leopard or later;
+Panther and Tiger are no longer supported.
+<!--l. 3266--><p class="indent" >   The MetaPost (<span 
+class="ec-lmtt-10">mpost</span>) program no longer creates or uses <span 
+class="ec-lmtt-10">.mem </span>files. The needed files, such as <span 
+class="ec-lmtt-10">plain.mp</span>, are
+simply read on every run. This is related to supporting MetaPost as a library, which is another significant
+though not user-visible change.
+<!--l. 3271--><p class="indent" >   The <span 
+class="ec-lmtt-10">updmap </span>implementation in Perl, previously used only on Windows, has been revamped and is now used
+on all platforms. There shouldn&#8217;t be any user-visible changes as a result, except that it runs much
+faster.
+<!--l. 3276--><p class="noindent" >
    <h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.3   </span> <a 
- id="x1-800009.3"></a>Future</h4>
-<!--l. 3260--><p class="noindent" ><span class="TEX"><span 
+ id="x1-810009.3"></a>Future</h4>
+<!--l. 3278--><p class="noindent" ><span class="TEX"><span 
 class="ec-lmri-10">T</span><span 
 class="E"><span 
 class="ec-lmri-10">E</span></span><span 
@@ -6244,15 +6264,17 @@ better-checked tree of macros and fonts. This work is all done by volunteers in
 always more to do. Please see <a 
 href="http://tug.org/texlive/contribute.html" class="url" ><span 
 class="ec-lmtt-10">http://tug.org/texlive/contribute.html</span></a>.
-<!--l. 3267--><p class="indent" >   Please send corrections, suggestions, and offers of help to:
+<!--l. 3285--><p class="indent" >   Please send corrections, suggestions, and offers of help to:
      <div class="quote">
-     <!--l. 3269--><p class="noindent" ><a 
+                                                                                     
+                                                                                     
+     <!--l. 3287--><p class="noindent" ><a 
 href="mailto:tex-live@tug.org" ><span class="path"><span 
 class="ec-lmtt-10">tex-live@tug.org</span></span></a> <br 
 class="newline" /><a 
 href="http://tug.org/texlive" class="url" ><span 
 class="ec-lmtt-10">http://tug.org/texlive</span></a></div>
-<!--l. 3274--><p class="noindent" ><span 
+<!--l. 3292--><p class="noindent" ><span 
 class="ec-lmro-10">Happy </span><span class="TEX"><span 
 class="ec-lmro-10">T</span><span 
 class="E"><span 
diff --git a/Master/texmf/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.pdf b/Master/texmf/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.pdf
index 569710170d5..1d43c63d0b9 100644
--- a/Master/texmf/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.pdf
+++ b/Master/texmf/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.pdf
diff --git a/Master/texmf/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.tex b/Master/texmf/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.tex
index beb6833d2f0..34963339ca9 100644
--- a/Master/texmf/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.tex
+++ b/Master/texmf/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.tex
@@ -3186,10 +3186,7 @@ material such as \CD\ labels, are available at
 \url{ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive}.
 
 
-% 
-\htmlanchor{news}
-\subsection{Present}
-\label{sec:tlcurrent}
+\subsubsection{2010}
 \label{sec:2010news} % keep with 2010
 
 In 2010, the default version for PDF output is now 1.5, enabling more
@@ -3255,6 +3252,27 @@ beneficial side effect is that installation from the physical \DVD\ is
 much faster.
 
 
+% 
+\htmlanchor{news}
+\subsection{Present}
+\label{sec:tlcurrent}
+
+2011 saw only a few changes.
+
+The \MacOSX\ binaries (\code{universal-darwin} and
+\code{x86\_64-darwin}) now work only on Leopard or later; Panther and
+Tiger are no longer supported.
+
+The MetaPost (\code{mpost}) program no longer creates or uses
+\code{.mem} files.  The needed files, such as \code{plain.mp}, are
+simply read on every run.  This is related to supporting MetaPost as a
+library, which is another significant though not user-visible change.
+
+The \code{updmap} implementation in Perl, previously used only on
+Windows, has been revamped and is now used on all platforms.  There
+shouldn't be any user-visible changes as a result, except that it runs
+much faster.
+
 \subsection{Future}
 
 \emph{\TL{} is not perfect!}  (And never will be.)  We intend to