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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} |