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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: ltnews05.tex + +% This is issue 5 of LaTeX News. + +\documentclass +% [lw35fonts] + {ltnews} + +% \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} + +\publicationmonth{June} +\publicationyear{1996} +\publicationissue{5} + +\begin{document} + +\maketitle + +\section{Welcome to \LaTeXNews~5} +This issue of \emph{\LaTeXNews} accompanies the fifth release of the +new standard \LaTeX{}, \LaTeXe. + +\section{Extra possibilities for section headings} +Most \LaTeX\ sectioning commands are defined using +\verb|\@startsection|. +For example, the \textsf{article} class defines: +\begin{small} +\begin{verbatim} +\newcommand\section{\@startsection + {section}{1}{0pt}{-3.5ex plus-1ex minus-.2ex}% + {2.3ex plus.2ex}{\normalfont\Large\bfseries}} +\end{verbatim} +\end{small} +The last argument specifies the style in which the section heading is +to be typeset. + +The new feature added at this release is that at the \emph{end} of +this argument you may specify a command that \emph{takes an argument}. +This command will be applied to the section number and heading. +For example, one could use the \verb|\MakeUppercase| command to +produce uppercase headings. A package or class file could contain: +\begin{small} +\begin{verbatim} +\renewcommand\section{\@startsection + {section}{1}{0pt}{-3.5ex plus-1ex minus-.2ex}% + {2.3ex plus.2ex}{\normalfont\Large\MakeUppercase}} +\end{verbatim} +\end{small} +to produce section headings using uppercase medium weight text, rather +than the bold text used by \textsf{article}. Note that, like the font +choice, the uppercasing applies only to the actual heading (including +any automatically generated section number), not to the text as it may +appear in the running head or table of contents. + +\section{The `openany' option in the `book' class} +The \textsf{openany} option allows chapter and similar openings to +occur on left hand pages. Previously this option only affected +\verb|\chapter| and \verb|\backmatter|. It now also affects +\verb|\part|, \verb|\frontmatter| and \verb|\mainmatter|. + +\section{More font (output) encodings} +The font encoding name \texttt{T3} has been allocated to the encoding +used in the new 256-character \textsc{IPA} fonts (for the phonetic +alphabet) produced by Rei Fukui. His package, \textsf{tipa}, +gives access to these fonts and should soon be available. (The +encoding named \texttt{OT3} is the 128-character encoding used in the +\textsc{IPA} fonts produced by Washington State University.) + + + +\section{More input encodings supported} +The \textsf{inputenc} package now supports the IBM codepage~852 used +in Eastern Europe, with the option~\texttt{[cp852]} contributed by +Petr~Sojka. + +Also, the \textsf{inputenc} package now activates most `control codes' +with \textsc{ascii} values below 32. +Currently none of the encodings in the standard distribution makes use +of these positions. + +\section{Fixes and improvements} +The \LaTeX\ kernel has only had minor changes, apart from +\verb|\@startsection| mentioned above. +However, some small fixes have been incorporated removing the +following problems: + +\begin{itemize} +\item + In tabular and array, previous versions of \LaTeX\ `lost' the + inter-column space from an `\texttt{l}'-column, when that column + was completely empty. + +\item + Previously, the use of the \verb|\nofiles| command could change + the \emph{vertical spacing} in a document.\\ A side effect of fixing + this is that when \verb|\nofiles| is used, \verb|\label| puts a + blank line in the log file. + +\item + \LaTeX~often loads fonts `on demand'. Previously, this could + happen inside the argument of an accent command and this would + cause the accent to appear in the wrong place. + +\end{itemize} + +\section{Changes to the `tools' packages} + +\begin{itemize} +\item + The \textsf{longtable} package now uses a modified algorithm, + contributed by David Kastrup, to align the `chunks' of a table. + It is now unnecessary to edit the document to add + \verb|\setlongtables| before the final run of \LaTeX. + In certain cases of overlapping \verb|\multicolumn| entries, the new + algorithm will produce better column widths than the old (at the + price of extra passes through \LaTeX). + +\item + The \textsf{dcolumn} package now has the extra possibility of + specifying the number of digits both \emph{before} and after the + `decimal point'. This makes it easy to centre the column of numbers + under a wide heading. +\end{itemize} + +\section{New copy of the \LaTeX\ bug database} +\verb|http://www.tex.ac.uk/ctan/latex/bugs.html| will soon have links +to a copy of the searchable \LaTeX\ bugs database at Mainz (Germany) +as well as the original copy at Sussex (England). + +\end{document} |