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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/ltnews11.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/ltnews11.tex deleted file mode 100644 index f809795ce96..00000000000 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/ltnews11.tex +++ /dev/null @@ -1,141 +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: ltnews11.tex 01/06/1999 -% This is issue 11 of LaTeX News. - -\documentclass -% [lw35fonts] % uncomment this line to get Times - {ltnews} - -% \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} - -\publicationmonth{June} -\publicationyear{1999} -\publicationissue{11} - -\begin{document} - -\maketitle - -\section{Back in sync} - -The last release of \LaTeX{} was delayed even longer than you have -come to expect. We hope that it proved worth waiting for. It -required a major integration of the code from several people and, -independently, the introduction of the LPPL (see \LaTeX{} News~10) plus -several related changes to our internal systems. It therefore seemed -sensible to wait until everything was complete rather than do things -in too much hurry. - -This seem to have been a successful strategy as -the recent patch release was related to an isolated change that was -done many months previously. If this release does not appear a lot -closer to its nominal date then \ldots~well, you will not be reading -this sentence! - -\section{Yearly release cycles} - -With the year 2000 rapidly approaching, we intend to switch to a -release frequency of just one per year (with patches if necessary) for -the core of \LaTeXe{}. These days the system is sufficiently stable -that the original update policy is costing everybody more time than is -now warranted. - -\section{LPPL update} - -Thanks to extensive and valuable input from Matt Swift -(\email{swift@alum.mit.edu}) we now have a clearer and more detailed -form of the \LaTeX{} Project Public Licence. This release contains -both the original version (in \file{lppl-1-0.txt}) and the updated -version, LPPL~1.1. - -\section{The future of Sli\TeX{}} - -We still get a very small trickle of reports about this part of the -system (if you are no longer able to recall \LaTeX~2.09 then you will -know it as the \class{slides} class). We have not classified them (in -our minds at least) as bugs since we have always known that there are -many problems with this class. It is clear to us that the only -sensible action would be to redesign the system completely; in -particular, to remove much of its complexity whose purpose is to -support 10-year-old overlay technology. However, this would take a -lot too much time and would be completely out of proportion to its -current usage. - -We are therefore planning to make the \class{slides} class -unsupported in the sense that any problem related to the use of -invisible fonts is considered to be a feature (The \LaTeXe{} manual by -Leslie Lamport doesn't even describe this part of the class any more). -Of course, if it still has its enthusiasts then we are happy to cede -it to their loving care (somewhat like a preserved steam locomotive, -in some parts of the world). - -\section{Fontenc package peculiarities} - -The \verb=\usepackage= interface normally ensures that a package is -loaded only once. The \pkg{fontenc} package has become an -exception to this rule: it can be loaded several times using different -options, e.g., allowing the user to add a font encoding in the -preamble. This comes at a price for package writers: the low-level -commands (see \file{ltclass.dtx}) used to check if a package was -loaded, and with which options, do not work for the \pkg{fontenc} -package. - -\section{New math font encodings} - -As we announced in \LaTeX{} News~9, a joint working group of the -\TeX{} Users Group and the \LaTeX3 Project has developed a new -\mbox{8-bit} math font encoding for \TeX{}. -The reason why this work is not yet released is because of other -exciting developments in the world of math fonts and math characters. -It is obviously wise to ensure that the encoding work is fully -integrated with the available fonts. - -Those interested are reminded that further information about the Math -Font Group may be found on the World Wide Web at:\\ -\url{http://www.tug.org/twg/mfg/}. - -\section{Tools distribution} - -The \pkg{multicol} package has now got a small but useful extension -which allows you to force a column break where this is really -necessary. This is done with the command \verb=\columnbreak=, which -can be used like \verb=\pagebreak= (e.g.,~within paragraphs) except -that it cannot have an optional argument and thus it always forces a -new column. - -\section{Coming soon} - -Major work on a new class file structure to support flexible -designs is well under way; some of this work will be presented at the -TUG'99 conference in Vancouver, Canada. With a bit of luck much of -this work could be ready for integration into the next release---so -watch this space! - -\end{document} |