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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/ltnews27.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/ltnews27.tex index 3572b5e0b19..ba17d26e5ee 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/ltnews27.tex +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/ltnews27.tex @@ -40,6 +40,12 @@ \publicationissue{27} +\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} \maketitle @@ -65,9 +71,9 @@ From this release, \LaTeX\ will accept ISO format date strings in the date argument of \verb|\ProvidesPackage|, \verb|\usepackage|, etc. Currently we recommend that you do not use this format in any packages that need to work with older \LaTeX\ releases; -the \textsf{latexrelease} package may be used with older releases to +the \pkg{latexrelease} package may be used with older releases to add this functionality. This change is handled in a special way by - \textsf{latexrelease}: The package always adds support for ISO dates + \pkg{latexrelease}: The package always adds support for ISO dates whatever format date is requested; this is required so that the necessary date comparisons may be made. @@ -92,10 +98,10 @@ verbatim environments use a \verb|\language| setting, The format ensures that a language has been allocated with this name. For most users this will in fact be no change as the standard -\textsf{babel} language has for a long time allocated a language with +\pkg{babel} language has for a long time allocated a language with this name. -In order that page breaks in \texttt{verbatim} do not influence the +In order that page breaks in \env{verbatim} do not influence the language used in the page head and foot, the format now normalises the language used in the output routine to a default language as described below. @@ -103,7 +109,7 @@ below. \section{Discretionary hyphenation} The \LaTeX\ definition of \verb|\-| has been adjusted so that it will insert the current font's \verb|\hyphenchar|, as would the -\TeX\ primitive. A comment in \textsf{source2e} has given +\TeX\ primitive. A comment in \file{source2e} has given this new definition since the first releases of \LaTeXe, and in this release we finally acted upon this comment. Previously \verb|\-| always inserted a \texttt{-} at a break point even if a different @@ -118,7 +124,7 @@ introduced; this is initialised to $-1$ but is set at handling of the default color, and is used in a similar way to normalise the settings for page head and foot as described above. Users should not normally need to set this explicitly but it is expected that -language packages such as \textsf{babel} may set this if the default +language packages such as \pkg{babel} may set this if the default behaviour is not suitable. \section{Line spacing in parboxes} @@ -129,7 +135,7 @@ lines of a paragraph that have ascenders or descenders could be set with \emph{closer} line spacing than lines without. This can easily happen if you use a \verb|\parbox| in an AMS alignment, as they use a relatively large value of \verb|\lineskiplimit|. -As usual, the \textsf{latexrelease} package may be used to +As usual, the \pkg{latexrelease} package may be used to force the older behavior. \end{document} |