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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/ltnews10.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/ltnews10.tex deleted file mode 100644 index bdaef0d9193..00000000000 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/ltnews10.tex +++ /dev/null @@ -1,153 +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: ltnews10.tex 12/01/1998 - -% This is issue 10 of LaTeX News. - -\documentclass -% [lw35fonts] - {ltnews}[1999/02/23] - -% \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} - -\publicationmonth{December} -\publicationyear{1998} -\publicationissue{10} - -\begin{document} - -\maketitle - - -\section{Five years of \LaTeXe} - -Since this is the 10th edition of \LaTeX{} News, the (no longer) New -Standard \LaTeX{} must have hit the streets almost this long ago. In -fact it was only the beta-version that some people got just in time for -Christmas~1993, and since then there has been a lot of tidying-up and -smoothing of rough edges (not to mention a few bug fixes!). - -Maybe it is time for something more radically different to emerge and -be hungrily adopted by the world; but don't panic, we shall be -maintaining what you have now for a long time yet. Amongst the more -polite things that have been written about our efforts, we found that this -quote (somewhat censored to protect the guilty) well reflects some of -our feelings about working on \LaTeX{} over the years: \textit{the mere -existence of \LaTeXe{} is a great miracle}. - - - \section{Restructuring the \LaTeX{} distribution} - - Since the (once) `new' standard \LaTeX{} has reached such a venerable - age, we are reviewing the way in which the system is presented to the - world. - - An early intention is to define, given the wide variety of good - packages now available, what now constitutes a useful installation of - \LaTeX{}. We also hope that such a definition will help document - portability if it leads to a future in which a \LaTeX{} class - designer can reasonably assume that a known list of - facilities will be there for all users (so that each class - need not supply them). - - As a first small step towards this definition, we shall replace the - \texttt{latex/packages} subdirectory on \ctan{}. - This directory was a curious mixture of the important, such as the - \LaTeX{} \texttt{tools}, that any self-respecting \LaTeX{} - installation ought to have, and the esoteric or experimental. - - The esoterica from \texttt{packages} will be moved to - new locations, as follows: - \begin{quote} - \texttt{expl3} to \texttt{latex/exptl/project}\\ - \texttt{mfnfss} to \texttt{latex/contrib/supported/mfnfss} - \end{quote} - - The subdirectory that replaces \texttt{packages} will be called - \texttt{latex/required}; all the other sub-directories of - \texttt{packages} will be moved there. - -\vspace{17pt} -\pagebreak - - \section{\LaTeX\ Project on the Internet} -A new \texttt{latex-project.org} domain has been registered. -The web site is not yet fully functional but the old \LaTeX\ pages from -\ctan\ are available at \texttt{http://www.latex-project.org/} and the -\LaTeX\ bug reporting address has been changed to -\texttt{latex-bugs@latex-project.org}. - - \section{Restructuring the \LaTeX{} package licenses} - -Several people have requested an easy mechanism for the distribution -of \LaTeX\ packages and other software ``under the same conditions as -\LaTeX''. The old \texttt{legal.txt} file was unsuitable as a general -licence as it referred to specific \LaTeX\ authors, and to specific -files. - -Therefore, in this release \texttt{legal.txt} contains just the -copyright notice and a reference to the new \emph{\LaTeX\ Project -Public License} (LPPL) for the distribution and modification -conditions. The \texttt{tools}, \texttt{graphics}, and \texttt{mfnfss} -packages also now refer to this license in their distribution notices. - - \section{Support for Cyrillic encodings} - -Basic Cyrillic support, as announced in \LaTeX{} News~9, is now -finally an official part of \LaTeX{}. It includes support for the -following standard Cyrillic font encodings (this list may -grow):~\mbox{\texttt{T2A T2B T2C X2}}. - -It also includes various Cyrillic input encodings (20~in total, -including commonly used variants and Mongolian Cyrillic -encodings). This provides platform independent and -sophisticated basic support for high-quality typesetting in various -Cyrillic-based languages. - -For further information see the file \texttt{cyrguide.tex}. - -\section{Tools distribution} - -The \texttt{varioref} package has been extended to support textual -page references to a range of objects: e.g.,~if \texttt{eq-first} -and \texttt{eq-last} are the label names for the first and last -equation in a sequence, then you can now write -\begin{verbatim} - see~\vrefrange{eq-first}{eq-last} -\end{verbatim} -This results in different text depending on whether both -labels fall on the same page. - -Some additional user commands, as well as building-blocks for writing -private extensions, are described in the accompanying documentation. - - - -\end{document} - |