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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: ltnews03.tex - -% This is issue 3 of LaTeX News. - -\documentclass -% [lw35fonts] - {ltnews} - -\publicationmonth{June} -\publicationyear{1995} -\publicationissue{3} - -\begin{document} - -\maketitle - -\section{Welcome to \LaTeXNews~3} - -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{June 1995 release of \LaTeX} - -June 1995 sees the third release of \LaTeXe. We are on schedule -to deliver a release of \LaTeX{} every six months, in December and -June. - -In the last \emph{\LaTeXNews}, we said ``we don't expect so much -activity in the next six months,'' which has turned out not to be -true! - -\section{Additional input encodings} - -In the last release of \LaTeX{} we distributed a test version of the -\texttt{inputenc} package which allows the use of input characters -other than just a--z and A--Z. The package has proved to be robust, -so we are now distributing an expanded version. -The new release comes with a number of input encodings: - -\begin{itemize} -\item \texttt{ascii} the standard encoding, -\item \texttt{latin1} the ISO Western European alphabet, -\item \texttt{latin2} the ISO Eastern European alphabet, -\item \texttt{cp437} the IBM codepage 437, -\item \texttt{cp850} the IBM codepage 850, and -\item \texttt{applemac} the Apple Macintosh encoding. -\end{itemize} -These can be used by specifying an option to the \texttt{inputenc} -package, for example: -\begin{verbatim} - \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} -\end{verbatim} -The new input encodings are currently being tested, but we don't -expect any major changes. - -\section{\LaTeX\ getting smaller} - -In the past releases of \LaTeXe, the amount of memory \LaTeX{} -requires has increased, but we are pleased to say that this trend has -been reversed. We hope that future releases of \LaTeX{} will continue -to get smaller. - -For example, on this document, the December 1994 release used 52,622 -words of memory, and the June 1995 release uses 51,216 words of -memory, which is a 2.7\% reduction. - -We are currently experimenting with other ways of reducing the size of -\LaTeX. For example, we are experimenting with an option to remove -the \texttt{picture} and \texttt{tabbing} environments from the -\LaTeX{} kernel, and to load them from a file the first time they are -used. This should help \LaTeX{} to run on machines with limited -memory. See \texttt{autoload.txt} for details. - -\section{Distribution and modification} - -One topic of discussion that has kept us busy is the distribution and -modification conditions of \LaTeX. We are committed to keeping -\LaTeX{} as free reliable software, and ensuring that (as far as -possible) \LaTeX{} documents will produce the same results on all -systems. - -The modification conditions are currently under discussion, and we -would like to hear from anyone interested. Please read -\texttt{modguide.tex} for more information. - -\section{AMS-\LaTeX\ full release} - -The AMS-\LaTeX\ packages were still in beta test in the December 1994 -release of \LaTeX, and the full release came out in January 1995. - -AMS-\LaTeX\ is described in the \emph{User's Guide} -(\texttt{amsldoc.tex}) and in \emph{The \LaTeX{} Companion}. - -\section{PostScript fonts} - -There is a new test release of the PSNFSS packages for accessing -PostScript fonts in \LaTeXe. This includes an update to all of the -fonts, to remove many of the underfull and overfull \verb|\hbox| -warnings, and improve the setting of non-English languages. - -The new release of \LaTeX{} removes all of the `hidden' uses of -Computer Modern mathematics. For example, the footnote markers used -to use math mode, so always used Computer Modern digits rather than -ones from the current text font. This has now been fixed. - -\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. - -The \LaTeX{} home page is \verb|http://www.tex.ac.uk/ctan/latex/| -and contains links to other WWW resources for \LaTeX. - -\end{document} |