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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/ltnews16.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/ltnews16.tex deleted file mode 100644 index 6fcf0564f64..00000000000 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/ltnews16.tex +++ /dev/null @@ -1,161 +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: ltnews16.tex -% -% This is issue 16 of LaTeX News. - -\documentclass -% [lw35fonts] % uncomment this line to get Palatino - {ltnews}[2004/02/28] - -% \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} - -\publicationmonth{December} -\publicationyear{2003} -\publicationissue{16} - -\begin{document} - -\maketitle - -%\raisefirstsection - -\section{Anniversary news} - -This anniversary \textit{Issue~16} takes a brief look into the future work of -the \LaTeX3 Project Team, both short and and longer range. Please let -us know if you want %\newline -to get involved with us in any of this work (see below). - -An overview of the 10th Anniversary Release, dated 2003/12/01, is -can be found in \textit{Issue~15}. - - -\section{TLC2: The \LaTeX{} Companion -- 2nd edition!} - -Since you are reading this newsletter, there is a good chance that -you, or a friend, has already bought this encyclopedic volume: the -incomparable Second\newline -Edition of this work that is every \LaTeX{}ie's\newline -ultimate lucky charm. - -If by some chance you have not yet purchased your own copy then get -into training, get shopping, and get flexing your muscles (both -physical---it's $1100+$~pages,\newline -and intellectual) by using it to discover -masses of invaluable `insider information' about: -\begin{itemize} -\item the latest release of Standard \LaTeX{}; -\item over~200~extension packages; -\item plus related software and systems. -\end{itemize} -For more information on this all new (??\ldots OK,\newline -not \emph{all}, but over 90\%!!), -all accurate (we hope!)\newline -10th~Anniversary Edition, check out\newline - \mbox{\url{http://www.awprofessional.com/titles/0201362996}}. - - -\section{Future maintenance} - -We are currently exploring how best to support the very large and -rapidly growing community of individuals, organisations and -enterprises that depend on the robustness and availability of the -current standard \LaTeX{} distribution. Although we remain firmly\newline -resolved not to make changes in the base distribution (the kernel) of -Standard \LaTeX{}, there is still much that needs doing to maintain -its reliability and utility and to keep up the necessary level of -communication with users and supporters. Also, as with all advanced -software systems, bugs are still turning up occasionally so %\newline -some fixes are still essential. - -One major impediment to providing adequate service levels in this area -is, of course, the difficulties inherent in obtaining the time and -commitment of skilled minds---hence the appeal above to anyone -interested %\newline -in getting involved. - - -\section{LPPL certification} - -There are still some outstanding diplomatic tasks around the -\LaTeX{} Project Public Licence: these include -e.g.,~getting it `OSF certified' and ensuring that it gains -more support and wider use, even in the FSF world\newline -where it has long been tolerated. - - -\section{Use of \eTeX/pdf\TeX} - -We expect that within the next two years, releases of \LaTeX{} will -change modestly in order to run best under an extended \TeX{} engine -that contains the \eTeX{} primitives, e.g., \eTeX{} or pdf\TeX{}. -The details of this possible upgrade need further work so we are not -making a definite announcement yet. - -Although the current release does not \emph{require} \eTeX{} features, -we certainly recommend using an extended \TeX{}, especially if you -need to debug macros. - - -\section{End of `autoload' support} - -As computer systems generally grow in capacity, requirements change -and so we believe that the \package{autoload} variant of \LaTeX{} is -no longer required. Thus, although the code remains it is no longer -supported. We hope this does not cause any problems. - - -\section{New models, new code} - -In the period 1999--2001 we published many results of our work over -the previous decade on the development of new concepts and models -for automated typesetting based on \TeX{} as the underlying platform. -These can be found at \url{http://www.latex-project.org/papers/} -and -\mbox{\url{http://www.latex-project.org/code/experimental/}}. - -Since then a very large proportion of the The Team's efforts have been -diverted to provide the core author team for TLC2, which provides -over 1000 pages of carefully researched and tested documentation of -many aspects of the vast world of \LaTeX{} related software that -was developed over that same time period and that continues -to grow and improve prodigiously. - -Completion of that task \ldots\ until TLC3!! \ldots\ presents the -possibility of getting back to this more exciting development work, -or even to more radical work on non-\TeX{}-based models and -implementations. - -Of course, any such ideas are predicated on our ability to organise -(with you, we hope) an efficient\newline -but responsive maintenance and support system\newline -for Standard \LaTeX{}. - -\end{document} |