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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/ltnews09.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/ltnews09.tex deleted file mode 100644 index bf6099ca8e9..00000000000 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/ltnews09.tex +++ /dev/null @@ -1,142 +0,0 @@ -% \iffalse meta-comment -% -% Copyright 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 -% The LaTeX3 Project and any individual authors listed elsewhere -% in this file. -% -% This file is part of the LaTeX base system. -% ------------------------------------------- -% -% It may be distributed and/or modified under the -% conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3 -% of this license or (at your option) any later version. -% The latest version of this license is in -% http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt -% and version 1.3 or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX -% version 2003/12/01 or later. -% -% This file has the LPPL maintenance status "maintained". -% -% The list of all files belonging to the LaTeX base distribution is -% given in the file `manifest.txt'. 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: ltnews09.tex - -% This is issue 9 of LaTeX News. - -\documentclass -% [lw35fonts] - {ltnews}[1999/02/23] - -%\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} - -\publicationmonth{June} -\publicationyear{1998} -\publicationissue{9} - -\begin{document} - -\maketitle - - -\section{New math font encodings} - -A joint working group of the \TeX{} Users Group and the \LaTeX3 -Project is developing a new 8-bit math font encoding for \TeX{}. -It is designed to overcome several limitations and implementation -problems of the old math font encodings and to simplify switching -between different sets of math fonts, much as the \LaTeX{} font -selection interface has simplified switching between text fonts. - -Since the work on this project relies entirely on volunteer work, we -cannot give a specific release date yet. However, a prototype -implementation already exists. This contains several sets of virtual -fonts, some \LaTeX{} packages and a kernel module; we hope to -integrate it into the main \LaTeX{} distribution for the next -release. - -Documents using only standard \LaTeX{} commands for math symbols -should not be affected by switching to the new math font encodings -However, documents, classes or packages making specific assumptions -about the encoding of math symbol fonts are likely to break. - -Further information about the Math Font Group may be found on -the World Wide Web at \texttt{http://www.tug.org/twg/mfg/}. - - -\section{A new math accent} - -A new math accent, \verb|\mathring|, has been added. This is a math mode -version of the ring accent (\r{}) which is available in text -mode with the command \verb|\r|. - -\section{Extended \cs{DeclareMathDelimiter}} - -The command \verb|\DeclareMathDelimiter| has been extended. -Normally this command takes six arguments. Previously, when being used -to declare a character (such as \texttt{[}) as a delimiter, a variant -form was used with only five arguments. The argument specifying the -default `math class' was omitted. Now the full six-argument form may be -used in this case. The extra information is used to implicitly declare -the character via \verb|\DeclareMathSymbol| for use when the symbol is -not used with \verb|\left| or \verb|\right|. - -The old five-argument form is detected and will work as before. - -\newpage - -\section{Tools distribution} - -The \texttt{multicol} package now supports the production of multiple -columns without balancing the last page. To get this effect use the -\texttt{multicols*} environment. - -The \texttt{layout} package was partly recoded by Hideo Umeki to -display page layout effects in a better way. - -As suggested by Donald Arseneau, the \texttt{calc} package was extended -to support the new commands \verb|\widthof{<text>}|, -\verb|\heightof{<text>}|, and \verb|\depthof{<text>}| within a -\texttt{calc}-expression. At the same time we modified a few kernel -commands so that \texttt{calc}-expressions can now be used in various -useful places such as the dimension arguments to the \texttt{tabular} -environment and the \verb|\rule| command. For many other standard -\LaTeX{} commands this was already possible. - - -\section{Support for Cyrillic encodings} - -We are very pleased that, after a lengthy period of development, a set -of fonts, encodings and support files for using \LaTeX\ with Cyrillic -characters will soon be available. - -Test versions of the `LH' fonts for these Cyrillic encodings, based on -the Computer Modern design, are available from CTAN archives in the -directory \texttt{fonts/cyrillic/lh-test}. The \LaTeX\ support files -(by Werner Lemberg and Vladimir Volovich) are also available from CTAN -archives in\\ - \texttt{macros/latex/contrib/supported/t2} - - -\section{Default docstrip header} - -Many \LaTeX\ users now distribute packages in documented source form -using the \textsf{docstrip} system. Docstrip allows a header to be -placed on generated package files, suitable for giving copyright -information, or distribution conditions. - -We have changed the default version of this header so that it allows -stripped files to be distributed in ready-to-run installations such as -the \TeX{}Live CD\@. If you use the default header for distributing -your files you should check that the new copyright text is acceptable -to you. The file \texttt{docstrip.dtx} explains how to produce your own -header if you wish to do so. - - -\end{document} |