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--*-text-*- $Id: TRAILER,v 3.7 1999/02/16 15:12:50 krisrose Exp $
+-*-text-*- $Id: TRAILER,v 3.16 2010/06/10 18:45:49 krisrose Exp $
=======================================================================
- ANNOUNCING the Xy-pic version 3.7 DIAGRAM TYPESETTING PACKAGE
+ ANNOUNCING the Xy-pic version 3.8 DIAGRAM TYPESETTING PACKAGE
=======================================================================
-This is to announce a release of my diagram typesetting package Xy-pic.
-
-With version 3.7 we explicitly grant permission to use the unmodified
-Xy-pic fonts and specials in distributed documents.
+This is to announce a release of the diagram typesetting package Xy-pic.
+It has been more than a decade, so we find that a release is in order.
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GENERAL
@@ -15,33 +13,42 @@ Xy-pic fonts and specials in distributed documents.
Xy-pic is a package for typesetting a variety of graphs and diagrams
with TeX. Xy-pic works with most formats (including LaTeX, AMS-LaTeX,
-AMS-TeX, and plain TeX), in particular Xy-pic is provided as a LaTeX2e
-`supported package' (following the `CTAN LaTeX2e bundle' standard).
+AMS-TeX, and plain TeX).
-Further specifics of the package are in the distribution README file.
+Further specifics of the package are in the distribution README file
+and other documentation.
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NEWS
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-The primary purpose of release 3.7 is the granting of special permission
-to copy the Xy-pic fonts and graphic specials inside documents, for
-example in DVI, PostScript, and PDF files. This has no practical
-significance except making current (reasonable) practice explicitly
-legal.
-
-Release 3.7 furthermore fixes a few bugs in release 3.6 and adds a few
-features: a "smart turning path" feature and an extension with macro
-expansion in kernel expressions and polygon shapes by George C. Necula,
-and the beginnings of an emulation of LaTeX picture mode proposed by
-Paul Burchard and Bill Richter.
-
-Special thanks to George Necula for the bug fixes and impressive
-extensions, to Bill Richter for extending Paul Burchard's pb-diagram to
-use Xy-pic as a backend and for contributing the `picture' feature, to
-Berthold Horn of Y&Y Inc. for releasing the copyright on their
-PostScript fonts, and to Pieter Donche and Marcelo Cunha dos Santos for
-the bug reports.
+Release 3.8.1 includes the missing ".enc" files in the distribution.
+
+The primary purpose of release 3.8 is to incorporate support for
+proper PDF output by including Daniel Müllner's "xypdf" package using
+native PDF for drawing. The driver is integrated with most of
+Xy-pic's extensions, however, there may still be gray areas where
+support is sketchy, so please try your favorite diagrams with pdfTeX
+and tell us if it works for you! We're grateful to Daniel for having
+contributed such a key piece of infrastructure that Xy-pic has been
+lacking for many years.
+
+This version also marks the first version where xymatrix entries are
+aligned by their math axis by default as suggested by Alex Perlis (in
+TUGboat 22 (2001), 330-334); thanks to Alex for the thorough analysis.
+Please check whether your matrices still work as you expect!
+
+Also thanks to Jeremy Gibbons for contributing the new "lu" style of
+arrow tips suitable for use with Lucida, and to Scott Pakin and the
+FontForge team for the great programs used to generate all Type1 fonts
+directly from METAFONT sources.
+
+Release 3.8 furthermore fixes a few bugs in release 3.7; do tell if
+you believe that any of the "fixes" are really new bugs.
+
+Finally, thanks to our loyal users; indeed if you enjoy Xy-pic then
+please rate us on http://sourceforge.net/projects/xy-pic where Xy-pic
+development is now completely in the open!
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AVAILABILITY
@@ -49,24 +56,19 @@ the bug reports.
Xy-pic can be retrieved through the World Wide Web Xy-pic `home page':
- URL: http://www.ens-lyon.fr/~krisrose/Xy-pic.html
-
-as well as by anonymous ftp from
-
- CTAN: macros/generic/diagrams/xypic
+ http://xy-pic.sourceforge.net
-Check the README file in each location for specifics, in particular
-check that you have reached a version 3.7 copy (some archives take a
-while to mirror the latest files)!
+Make sure to check that you have reached a version 3.8 copy (some
+archives take a while to mirror the latest files)!
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HISTORY & CREDITS
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The first public release (version 1.40) of Xy-pic was created by
-Kristoffer H. Rose, DIKU, U of Copenhagen (now ENS-Lyon, France) and
-distributed via Usenet on December 19, 1991. This quickly became
-version 2 of which version 2.6 was the stable for sevarl years.
+Kristoffer H. Rose, then at DIKU, U of Copenhagen, and distributed via
+Usenet on December 19, 1991. This quickly became version 2 of which
+version 2.6 was stable for a few years.
The thorough rewrite that became version 3 is a continued
collaboration with Ross Moore, Macquarie U, Sydney, initiated through
@@ -75,14 +77,14 @@ Research Council, Macquarie University, and using donated DEC
equipment). However, full backwards compatibility is maintained
(except for the unavoidable but fully documented obscure cases).
-Xy-pic is Copyright (c) 1991-1998 by Kristoffer H. Rose and 1994-1998
-by Ross Moore under GNU COPYLEFT (GPL) which means that you can use
-the package for any purpose but if you provide the macros or any code
-derived from them to a third party then you are obliged to include the
-entire Xy-pic package (full details in the file COPYING). The
-PostScript fonts are additionally Copyright (c) 1997 Y&Y Inc. The
-FONTCOPYING file details the special permissions to distribute fonts
-without the full requirements of the GPL.
+Xy-pic is principally Copyright (c) 1991-2010 by Kristoffer H. Rose
+and 1994-2010 by Ross Moore, with contributions by several others, all
+under GNU COPYLEFT (GPL) which means that you can use the package for
+any purpose but if you provide the macros or any code derived from
+them to a third party then you are obliged to include the entire
+Xy-pic package (full details in the file COPYING). The FONTCOPYING
+file details the special permissions to distribute fonts without the
+full requirements of the GPL.
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