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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/ltnews14.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/ltnews14.tex index 836591019e1..61c96c81ae4 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/ltnews14.tex +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/ltnews14.tex @@ -40,6 +40,11 @@ \publicationyear{2001} \publicationissue{14} +\providecommand\pkg[1]{\texttt{#1}} +\providecommand\cls[1]{\texttt{#1}} +\providecommand\option[1]{\texttt{#1}} +\providecommand\env[1]{\texttt{#1}} +\providecommand\file[1]{\texttt{#1}} \begin{document} @@ -69,14 +74,14 @@ available. You can read about its new features in One of the bugs that got fixed in this release deals with how labels are handled by \LaTeX{}. Because this part of the kernel is modified -by \textsf{babel}, the relevant changes need to be coordinated. -Therefore to use \textsf{Babel} with this release of \LaTeX{} you will -need to update your version of \textsf{babel} to at least 3.7. +by \pkg{babel}, the relevant changes need to be coordinated. +Therefore to use \pkg{Babel} with this release of \LaTeX{} you will +need to update your version of \pkg{babel} to at least 3.7. -\section{New input encoding \package{latin9}} +\section{New input encoding \option{latin9}} -The package \package{inputenc} has, thanks to Karsten Tinnefeld, been -extended to cover the \package{latin9} input encoding. The +The package \pkg{inputenc} has, thanks to Karsten Tinnefeld, been +extended to cover the \option{latin9} input encoding. The ISO-Latin~9 encoding is a useful modern replacement for ISO-Latin~1 that contains a few characters needed for French and Finnish. Of wider interest, it also contains the euro currency sign; this could be the @@ -87,11 +92,11 @@ Breton, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Frisian, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Icelandic, Irish Gaelic, Italian, Latin, Luxembourgish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romanic, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish and Swedish.\\ -The characters added in \package{latin9} are (in \LaTeX{} notation):\\ +The characters added in \option{latin9} are (in \LaTeX{} notation):\\ \begin{small} \verb| \texteuro \v S \v s \v Z \v z \OE \oe \" Y | \end{small}\\ -They displace the following characters from \package{latin1}:\\ +They displace the following characters from \option{latin1}:\\ \begin{small} \verb| \textcurrency \textbrokenbar \"{} \'{} \c{} |\\ \verb| \textonequarter \textonehalf \textthreequarters | @@ -100,7 +105,7 @@ They displace the following characters from \package{latin1}:\\ \section{New tools} -The new package \package{trace} provides many commands to control +The new package \pkg{trace} provides many commands to control \LaTeX{}'s tracing and debugging output, including the excellent new information available with \eTeX{} such as the extremely useful tracing of local assignments. You will find it in the tools @@ -112,7 +117,7 @@ loading by NFSS (which can go on for pages if you are unlucky). It also offers \verb|\traceoff| to \ldots\ guess what! Full details are in the documented source file, \file{trace.dtx}. -In the base \package{ifthen} package we have added +In the base \pkg{ifthen} package we have added the uppercase synonyms \verb|\NOT| \verb|\AND| and \verb|\OR|. \section{New experimental code} @@ -157,11 +162,11 @@ This directory has been extended to contain the following. \item[galley] Prototype implementation of the interface\latex{\\} for manipulating vertical material in galleys. \item[xinitials] Prototype implementation of the interface\latex{\\} - for paragraph initials (needs the \texttt{galley} package). - \item[xtheorem] Contributed example using the \texttt{template} + for paragraph initials (needs the \pkg{galley} package). + \item[xtheorem] Contributed example using the \pkg{template} package to provide a designer interface for theorem environments. \item[xor] A prototype implementation of the new output routine - as described in the \texttt{xo-pfloat.pdf} paper. + as described in the \file{xo-pfloat.pdf} paper. \item[xfrontm] A prototype version of the new font matter interface. \end{description} |