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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: ltnews02.tex + +% This is issue 2 of LaTeX News. + +\documentclass +% [lw35fonts] + {ltnews} + +\publicationmonth{December} +\publicationyear{1994} +\publicationissue{2} + +\begin{document} + +\maketitle + +\section{Welcome to \LaTeXNews~2} + +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. + +\section{December 1994 release of \LaTeX} + +December 1994 sees the second release of \LaTeXe. We are on schedule +to deliver a release of \LaTeX{} every six months, in December and +June. + +This release has seen quite a lot of activity, which is not too +surprising as it's only been a year since the first test release of +\LaTeXe. We don't expect so much activity in the next six months. + +Many of the changes are minor improvements and bug-fixes---see +\emph{\LaTeXe{} for authors} (\verb|usrguide.tex|), \emph{\LaTeXe{} +font selection} (\verb|fntguide.tex|) and our change log +(\verb|changes.txt|) for more details. + +However, there are two important new packages available for \LaTeX: +\texttt{inputenc} and AMS-\LaTeX. + +\section{Accented input} + +One of the problems with writing non-English documents in \LaTeX{} is +the accent commands. Reading documents containing text like +\verb|na\"\i ve| is frustrating, especially if your keyboard allows +you to type \texttt{na\"\i ve}. + +In the past, \LaTeX{} has not supported input containing accented +characters such as \texttt{\"\i}, because Windows, Macintosh and Unix +all have different ways of dealing with accented input, called +\emph{input encodings}. + +However, the \verb|inputenc| package allows you to specify which input +encoding your document is written with, for example to use the ISO +Latin-1 encoding, you type: +\begin{verbatim} + \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} +\end{verbatim} +At the moment, \verb|inputenc| supports the \verb|ascii| and +\verb|latin1| input encodings, but more will be added with future +releases. + +The \verb|inputenc| package is +currently a test release. The user interface for the full release will +be upwardly compatible with the test version. + +\section{AMS-\LaTeX{}} + + AMS-\LaTeX{} is a set of miscellaneous extensions for \LaTeX{} + distributed by the American Mathematical Society. They provide superior + information structure and superior printed output for mathematical + documents. + + There are far too many features of AMS-\LaTeX{} to list here. + AMS-\LaTeX{} is described in the accompanying documentation, + and in \emph{The \LaTeX{} Companion}. + + Version 1.2beta of AMS-\LaTeX{} was released for testing by intrepid + users in October 1994. The full release of AMS-\LaTeX{}~1.2 is expected + in early January 1995. + + It will be divided into two bundles: + \begin{itemize} + + \item the \verb|amsfonts| packages, which give access to + hundreds of new mathematical symbols, and new math fonts + such as blackboard bold and fraktur. + + \item the \verb|amsmath| packages, which provide finer control over + mathematical typesetting, such as multi-line subscripts, + enhanced theorem and proof environments, + and improved displayed equations, + + \end{itemize} + For compatibility with older documents, an \verb|amstex| package will be + provided. + +\section{\LaTeX{} on the internet} + +\LaTeX{} has its own home page on the World Wide Web, with the URL: +\begin{verbatim} + http://www.tex.ac.uk/CTAN/latex/ +\end{verbatim} +This page describes \LaTeX{} and the \LaTeX3 project, and contains +pointers to other \LaTeX{} resources, such as the user guides, the +\TeX{} Frequently Asked Questions, and the \LaTeX{} bugs database. + +The electronic home of anything \TeX-related is the Comprehensive +\TeX{} Archive Network (CTAN). This is a network of cooperating ftp +sites, with over a gigabyte of \TeX{} material: +\begin{verbatim} + ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/ + ftp://ftp.shsu.edu/tex-archive/ + ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/ +\end{verbatim} +For more information, see the \LaTeX{} home page. + +\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, +P.~O.~Box~869, Santa~Barbara, CA~93102-0869, USA, Fax:~+1~805~963~8358, +EMail:~tug@tug.org. + + +\end{document} |