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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/patches.txt b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/patches.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..dc5f12d98eb --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/patches.txt @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ + LaTeX Patches Guide + + 2003/12/01 + + +This document describes the procedure by which changes to the LaTeX +distribution in between the six-monthly releases will be made. + +Such changes will be made only when major problems are discovered and +fixed. Other changes will only be made twice a year, in June and +December. + +Changes which affect the file latex.ltx, and hence the format, are +called `patches to the LaTeX kernel': this concept is described in +detail below. The changes of this type are described briefly at the +end of this file, in chronological order. + +All changes to all files should be listed, in reverse-time order, in +the files called changes.txt: there is one in each distribution +subdirectory. + + +Patches to the LaTeX kernel dated <2003/12/01> +============================================== + +New releases of LaTeX will occur at six-monthly intervals, in June and +December. Between these releases it may be necessary to make small +updates to fix major problems. + +We have made it relatively easy to install updates that affect only +the format---by placing all these changes in one file, called +ltpatch.ltx. + +In order to update your LaTeX format you should put +ltpatch.ltx where it can be read by iniTeX and then run iniTeX on +latex.ltx. You do not need to unpack the latex sources again. + +In this run of iniTeX, the file ltpatch.ltx (if it exists) will be +read just before the format file is `dumped'. This will correct any +bugs and it will modify the opening banner of LaTeX: for example, +from: + +LaTeX2e <2003/12/01> + +to: + +LaTeX2e <2003/12/01> patch level 1 + + +(The ltpatch.ltx distributed with this `full' release of LaTeX + is `patch level 0' which does not change the banner.) + + +--- Copyright 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 + The LaTeX3 Project. All rights reserved --- + |