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+ 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 ---
+