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@@ -5577,45 +5577,43 @@ class="ec-lmss-12">xindy</span>.
class="ec-lmss-12">amd64-netbsd</span>, <span
class="ec-lmss-12">i386-netbsd</span>), Ken Brown
(<span
-class="ec-lmss-12">x86_64-cygwin</span>), Johannes Hielscher (<span
-class="ec-lmss-12">aarch64-linux</span>), Akira Kakuto (<span
-class="ec-lmss-12">windows</span>), Dick
-Koch (<span
-class="ec-lmss-12">universal-darwin</span>), Mojca Miklavec (<span
-class="ec-lmss-12">amd64-freebsd</span>, <span
+class="ec-lmss-12">x86_64-cygwin</span>), Akira Kakuto (<span
+class="ec-lmss-12">windows</span>), Dick Koch (<span
+class="ec-lmss-12">universal-darwin</span>), Mojca Miklavec
+(<span
+class="ec-lmss-12">x86_64-darwinlegacy</span>), Norbert Preining (<span
+class="ec-lmss-12">aarch64-linux</span>, <span
class="ec-lmss-12">armhf-linux</span>, <span
class="ec-lmss-12">i386-freebsd</span>,
<span
-class="ec-lmss-12">x86_64-darwinlegacy</span>, <span
+class="ec-lmss-12">amd64-freebsd</span>, <span
+class="ec-lmss-12">i386-linux</span>, <span
+class="ec-lmss-12">x86_64-linux</span>, <span
class="ec-lmss-12">i386-solaris</span>, <span
class="ec-lmss-12">x86_64-solaris</span>, <span
-class="ec-lmss-12">sparc-solaris</span>), Norbert Preining (<span
-class="ec-lmss-12">i386-linux</span>,
-<span
-class="ec-lmss-12">x86_64-linux</span>, <span
-class="ec-lmss-12">x86_64-linuxmusl</span>). For information on the TeX Live build process, see
-<a
+class="ec-lmss-12">x86_64-linuxmusl</span>). For
+information on the TeX Live build process, see <a
href="https://tug.org/texlive/build.html" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/texlive/build.html</span></a>.
-</p><!--l. 2891--><p class="indent" > Translators of this manual: Takuto Asakura (Japanese), Denis Bitouzé &#x0026; Patrick Bideault
-(French), Carlos Enriquez Figueras (Spanish), Jjgod Jiang, Jinsong Zhao, Yue Wang, &#x0026; Helin
-Gai (Chinese), Nikola Lečić (Serbian), Marco Pallante &#x0026; Carla Maggi (Italian),
-Petr Sojka &#x0026; Jan Busa (Czech/Slovak), Boris Veytsman (Russian), Zofia Walczak
-(Polish), Uwe Ziegenhagen (German). The TeX Live documentation web page is
+</p><!--l. 2889--><p class="indent" > Translators of this manual: Takuto Asakura (Japanese), Denis Bitouzé &#x0026; Patrick
+Bideault (French), Carlos Enriquez Figueras (Spanish), Jjgod Jiang, Jinsong Zhao, Yue
+Wang, &#x0026; Helin Gai (Chinese), Nikola Lečić (Serbian), Marco Pallante &#x0026; Carla Maggi
+(Italian), Petr Sojka &#x0026; Jan Busa (Czech/Slovak), Boris Veytsman &#x0026; Vladimir Lomov
+(Russian), Uwe Ziegenhagen (German). The TeX Live documentation web page is
<a
href="https://tug.org/texlive/doc.html" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/texlive/doc.html</span></a>.
-</p><!--l. 2904--><p class="indent" > Of course the most important acknowledgement must go to Donald Knuth, first for
+</p><!--l. 2901--><p class="indent" > Of course the most important acknowledgement must go to Donald Knuth, first for
inventing TeX, and then for giving it to the world.
-</p><!--l. 2908--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 2905--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h3 class="sectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9 </span> <a
id="x1-710009"></a>Release history</h3>
-<!--l. 2911--><p class="noindent" >
+<!--l. 2908--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1 </span> <a
id="x1-720009.1"></a>Past</h4>
-<!--l. 2913--><p class="noindent" >Discussion began in late 1993 when the Dutch TeX Users Group was starting work on its
+<!--l. 2910--><p class="noindent" >Discussion began in late 1993 when the Dutch TeX Users Group was starting work on its
4AllTeX CD for MS-DOS users, and it was hoped at that time to issue a single, rational, CD
for all systems. This was too ambitious a target for the time, but it did spawn not
only the very successful 4AllTeX CD, but also the TUG Technical Council working
@@ -5631,11 +5629,11 @@ CD. The distribution you now have is a very direct result of the working group
deliberations. It was also clear that the success of the 4AllTeX CD showed that Unix users
would benefit from a similarly easy system, and this is the other main strand of TeX
Live.
-</p><!--l. 2929--><p class="indent" > We first undertook to make a new Unix-based TDS CD in the autumn of 1995, and quickly
+</p><!--l. 2926--><p class="indent" > We first undertook to make a new Unix-based TDS CD in the autumn of 1995, and quickly
identified Thomas Esser’s teTeX as the ideal setup, as it already had multi-platform support
+and was built with portability across file systems in mind. Thomas agreed to help, and
-and was built with portability across file systems in mind. Thomas agreed to help, and
work began seriously at the start of 1996. The first edition was released in May
1996. At the start of 1997, Karl Berry completed a major new release of Web2c,
which included nearly all the features which Thomas Esser had added in teTeX, and
@@ -5647,7 +5645,7 @@ teTeX was being made, and TeX Live included almost all of its features. The 4th
edition followed the same pattern, using a new version of teTeX, and a new release of
Web2C (7.3). The system now included a complete Windows setup, thanks to Fabrice
Popineau.
-</p><!--l. 2945--><p class="indent" > For the 5th edition (March 2000) many parts of the CD were revised and checked,
+</p><!--l. 2942--><p class="indent" > For the 5th edition (March 2000) many parts of the CD were revised and checked,
updating hundreds of packages. Package details were stored in XML files. But the major
change for TeX Live 5 was that all non-free software was removed. Everything in TeX
Live is now intended to be compatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines (
@@ -5655,20 +5653,20 @@ Live is now intended to be compatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines (
href="https://debian.org/intro/free" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://debian.org/intro/free</span></a>); we have done our best to check the license conditions of
all packages, but we would very much appreciate hearing of any mistakes.
-</p><!--l. 2954--><p class="indent" > The 6th edition (July 2001) had much more material updated. The major change was a
+</p><!--l. 2951--><p class="indent" > The 6th edition (July 2001) had much more material updated. The major change was a
new install concept: the user could select a more exact set of needed collections.
Language-related collections were completely reorganized, so selecting any of them installs not
only macros, fonts, etc., but also prepares an appropriate <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">language.dat</span>.
-</p><!--l. 2960--><p class="indent" > The 7th edition of 2002 had the notable addition of macOS support, and the usual
+</p><!--l. 2957--><p class="indent" > The 7th edition of 2002 had the notable addition of macOS support, and the usual
myriad of updates to all sorts of packages and programs. An important goal was
integration of the source back with teTeX, to correct the drift apart in versions 5
and 6.
-</p><!--l. 2965--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 2962--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.1 </span> <a
id="x1-730009.1.1"></a>2003</h5>
-<!--l. 2967--><p class="noindent" >In 2003, with the continuing flood of updates and additions, we found that TeX Live had
+<!--l. 2964--><p class="noindent" >In 2003, with the continuing flood of updates and additions, we found that TeX Live had
grown so large it could no longer be contained on a single CD, so we split it into three different
distributions (see section <a
href="#x1-90002.1">2.1<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:tl-coll-dists --></a>, p. <a
@@ -5676,32 +5674,32 @@ href="#x1-90002.1">8<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:tl-coll-dists --></a>). In addition:
</p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2974--><p class="noindent" >At the request of the LaTeX team, we changed the standard <span
+ <!--l. 2971--><p class="noindent" >At the request of the LaTeX team, we changed the standard <span
class="ec-lmss-12">latex </span>and <span
class="ec-lmss-12">pdflatex</span>
commands to now use e-TeX (see p. <a
href="#x1-120002.4">13<!--tex4ht:ref: text:etex --></a>).
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2977--><p class="noindent" >The new Latin Modern fonts were included (and are recommended).
+ <!--l. 2974--><p class="noindent" >The new Latin Modern fonts were included (and are recommended).
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2978--><p class="noindent" >Support for Alpha OSF was removed (HPUX support was removed previously),
+ <!--l. 2975--><p class="noindent" >Support for Alpha OSF was removed (HPUX support was removed previously),
since no one had (or volunteered) hardware available on which to compile new
+ binaries.
- binaries.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2981--><p class="noindent" >Windows setup was substantially changed; for the first time an integrated
+ <!--l. 2978--><p class="noindent" >Windows setup was substantially changed; for the first time an integrated
environment based on XEmacs was introduced.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2983--><p class="noindent" >Important supplementary programs for Windows (Perl, Ghostscript, ImageMagick,
+ <!--l. 2980--><p class="noindent" >Important supplementary programs for Windows (Perl, Ghostscript, ImageMagick,
Ispell) are now installed in the TeX Live installation directory.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2986--><p class="noindent" >Font map files used by <span
+ <!--l. 2983--><p class="noindent" >Font map files used by <span
class="ec-lmss-12">dvips</span>, <span
class="ec-lmss-12">dvipdfm </span>and <span
class="ec-lmss-12">pdftex </span>are now generated by the new
@@ -5710,7 +5708,7 @@ class="ec-lmss-12">updmap </span>and installed into <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf/fonts/map</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2989--><p class="noindent" >TeX, Metafont, and MetaPost now, by default, output most input characters (32
+ <!--l. 2986--><p class="noindent" >TeX, Metafont, and MetaPost now, by default, output most input characters (32
and above) as themselves in output (e.g., <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">\write</code></span>) files, log files, and the terminal,
i.e., <span
class="ec-lmri-12">not </span>translated using the <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">^^</code></span> notation. In TeX Live 7, this translation was
@@ -5720,24 +5718,24 @@ class="ec-lmri-12">not </span>translated using the <span class="obeylines-h"><c
this.)
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2999--><p class="noindent" >This documentation was substantially revised.
+ <!--l. 2996--><p class="noindent" >This documentation was substantially revised.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3000--><p class="noindent" >Finally, since the edition numbers had grown unwieldy, the version is now simply
+ <!--l. 2997--><p class="noindent" >Finally, since the edition numbers had grown unwieldy, the version is now simply
identified by the year: TeX Live 2003.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 3005--><p class="noindent" >
+<!--l. 3002--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.2 </span> <a
id="x1-740009.1.2"></a>2004</h5>
-<!--l. 3007--><p class="noindent" >2004 saw many changes:
+<!--l. 3004--><p class="noindent" >2004 saw many changes:
</p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3011--><p class="noindent" >If you have locally-installed fonts which use their own <span
+ <!--l. 3008--><p class="noindent" >If you have locally-installed fonts which use their own <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">.map </span>or (much less likely)
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">.enc </span>support files, you may need to move those support files.
- </p><!--l. 3015--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ </p><!--l. 3012--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">.map </span>files are now searched for in subdirectories of <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">fonts/map </span>only (in each <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf</span>
@@ -5749,22 +5747,22 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">fonts/enc </span>only, along the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">ENCFONTS </span>path. <span
class="ec-lmss-12">updmap </span>will attempt
to warn about problematic files.
- </p><!--l. 3022--><p class="noindent" >For methods of handling this and other information, please see
-
-
+ </p><!--l. 3019--><p class="noindent" >For methods of handling this and other information, please see
<a
href="https://tug.org/texlive/mapenc.html" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/texlive/mapenc.html</span></a>.
+
+
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3025--><p class="noindent" >The TeX Collection has been expanded with the addition of a MiKTeX-based
+ <!--l. 3022--><p class="noindent" >The TeX Collection has been expanded with the addition of a MiKTeX-based
installable CD, for those who prefer that implementation to Web2C. See section <a
href="#x1-80002">2<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:overview-tl --></a>
(p. <a
href="#x1-80002">8<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:overview-tl --></a>).
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3029--><p class="noindent" >Within TeX Live, the single large <span
+ <!--l. 3026--><p class="noindent" >Within TeX Live, the single large <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf </span>tree of previous releases has been replaced
by three: <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf</span>, <span
@@ -5776,7 +5774,7 @@ href="#x1-100002.2">9<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:tld --></a>), and the
class="ec-lmtt-12">README </span>files for each.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3035--><p class="noindent" >All TeX-related input files are now collected in the <span
+ <!--l. 3032--><p class="noindent" >All TeX-related input files are now collected in the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tex </span>subdirectory of <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf*</span>
trees, rather than having separate sibling directories <span
@@ -5789,7 +5787,7 @@ href="../../../../texmf-dist/doc/generic/tds/tds.html#Extensions" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf-dist/doc/generic/tds/tds.html#Extensions</span></a>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3042--><p class="noindent" >Helper scripts
+ <!--l. 3039--><p class="noindent" >Helper scripts
(not meant to be invoked by users) are now located in a new <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">scripts </span>subdirectory
of <span
@@ -5800,7 +5798,7 @@ href="https://tug.org/tds/tds.html\#Scripts" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/tds/tds.html\#Scripts</span></a>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3048--><p class="noindent" >Almost all formats leave most characters printable as themselves via the
+ <!--l. 3045--><p class="noindent" >Almost all formats leave most characters printable as themselves via the
“translation file” <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">cp227.tcx</span>, instead of translating them with the <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">^^</code></span> notation.
Specifically, characters at positions 32–256, plus tab, vertical tab, and form
@@ -5815,7 +5813,7 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf-dist/doc/web2c/web2c.html#TCX-files</span></a>. (By t
since it is byte-oriented.)
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3061--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 3058--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmss-12">pdfetex </span>is now the default engine for all formats except (plain) <span
class="ec-lmss-12">tex </span>itself. (Of course
it generates DVI when run as <span
@@ -5824,7 +5822,7 @@ class="ec-lmss-12">latex</span>, etc.) This means, among other things, that the
class="ec-lmss-12">pdftex </span>are available in LaTeX, ConTeXt, etc., as well
as the e-TeX features ( <a
href="../../../../texmf-dist/doc/etex/base/" >texmf-dist/doc/etex/base/</a>).
- </p><!--l. 3068--><p class="noindent" >It also means it’s <span
+ </p><!--l. 3065--><p class="noindent" >It also means it’s <span
class="ec-lmri-12">more important than ever </span>to use the <span
class="ec-lmss-12">ifpdf </span>package (works
with both plain and LaTeX) or equivalent code, because simply testing whether
@@ -5834,29 +5832,29 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfoutput </span>or some other primitive is defined is not
could this year, but next year, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfoutput </span>may be defined even when DVI is being
written.
+ </p></li>
- </p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3076--><p class="noindent" >pdfTeX (<a
+ <!--l. 3073--><p class="noindent" >pdfTeX (<a
href="http://pdftex.org" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">http://pdftex.org</span></a>) has many new features:
</p>
<ul class="itemize2">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3080--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 3077--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfmapfile </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfmapline </span>provide font map support from within a
document.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3083--><p class="noindent" >Microtypographic font expansion can be used more easily.<br
+ <!--l. 3080--><p class="noindent" >Microtypographic font expansion can be used more easily.<br
class="newline" /><a
href="http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-pdftex/2004-May/000504.html" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-pdftex/2004-May/000504.html</span></a>
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3086--><p class="noindent" >All parameters previously set through the special
+ <!--l. 3083--><p class="noindent" >All parameters previously set through the special
configuration file <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">pdftex.cfg </span>must now be set through primitives, typically
in <span
@@ -5867,14 +5865,14 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">.fmt</span>
class="ec-lmtt-12">pdftexconfig.tex </span>is changed.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3092--><p class="noindent" >See the pdfTeX manual for more:
+ <!--l. 3089--><p class="noindent" >See the pdfTeX manual for more:
<a
href="../../../../texmf-dist/doc/pdftex/manual/pdftex-a.pdf" >texmf-dist/doc/pdftex/manual/pdftex-a.pdf</a>.
</p>
</li></ul>
</li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3096--><p class="noindent" >The <span
+ <!--l. 3093--><p class="noindent" >The <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\input </span>primitive in <span
class="ec-lmss-12">tex </span>(and <span
class="ec-lmss-12">mf </span>and <span
@@ -5889,11 +5887,11 @@ class="ec-lmss-12">mpost</span>) now accepts double quotes containing
<a
id="x1-74004r2"></a>\input{&#x0022;filename with spaces&#x0022;}  % latex</pre>
</pre>
- <!--l. 3102--><p class="nopar" >See the Web2C manual for more: <a
+ <!--l. 3099--><p class="nopar" >See the Web2C manual for more: <a
href="../../../../texmf-dist/doc/web2c" >texmf-dist/doc/web2c</a>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3105--><p class="noindent" >encTeX support is now included within Web2C and consequently all TeX programs,
+ <!--l. 3102--><p class="noindent" >encTeX support is now included within Web2C and consequently all TeX programs,
via the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">-enc </span>option — <span
class="ec-lmri-12">only when formats are built</span>. encTeX supports general
@@ -5904,7 +5902,7 @@ href="http://olsak.net/enctex.html" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">http://olsak.net/enctex.html</span></a>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3112--><p class="noindent" >Aleph, a new engine combining e-TeX and Omega, is available. Some information is
+ <!--l. 3109--><p class="noindent" >Aleph, a new engine combining e-TeX and Omega, is available. Some information is
available in <a
href="../../../../texmf-dist/doc/aleph/base" >texmf-dist/doc/aleph/base</a> and <a
href="https://texfaq.org/FAQ-enginedev" class="url" ><span
@@ -5913,21 +5911,21 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">https://texfaq.org/FAQ-enginedev</span></a>.
class="ec-lmss-12">lamed</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3117--><p class="noindent" >The latest LaTeX release has a new version of the LPPL — now officially a
+ <!--l. 3114--><p class="noindent" >The latest LaTeX release has a new version of the LPPL — now officially a
Debian-approved license. Assorted other updates, see the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">ltnews </span>files in
<a
href="../../../../texmf-dist/doc/latex/base" >texmf-dist/doc/latex/base</a>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3122--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 3119--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmss-12">dvipng</span>, a new program for converting DVI to PNG image files, is included. See
<a
href="https://ctan.org/pkg/dvipng" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://ctan.org/pkg/dvipng</span></a>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3126--><p class="noindent" >We reduced the <span
+ <!--l. 3123--><p class="noindent" >We reduced the <span
class="ec-lmss-12">cbgreek </span>package to a “medium” sized set of fonts, with the assent and
advice of the author (Claudio Beccari). The excised fonts are the invisible, outline, and
transparency ones, which are relatively rarely used, and we needed the space. The full set
@@ -5936,12 +5934,12 @@ href="https://ctan.org/pkg/cbgreek-complete" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://ctan.org/pkg/cbgreek-complete</span></a>).
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3132--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 3129--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmss-12">oxdvi </span>has been removed; just use <span
class="ec-lmss-12">xdvi</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3134--><p class="noindent" >The <span
+ <!--l. 3131--><p class="noindent" >The <span
class="ec-lmss-12">ini </span>and <span
class="ec-lmss-12">vir </span>commands (links) for <span
class="ec-lmss-12">tex</span>, <span
@@ -5954,14 +5952,14 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">-ini </span>for
years now.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3139--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 3136--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmss-12">i386-openbsd </span>platform support was removed. Since the <span
class="ec-lmss-12">tetex </span>package in the BSD Ports
system is available, and GNU/Linux and FreeBSD binaries were available, it seemed
volunteer time could be better spent elsewhere.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3144--><p class="noindent" >On <span
+ <!--l. 3141--><p class="noindent" >On <span
class="ec-lmss-12">sparc-solaris </span>(at least), you may have to set the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">LD_LIBRARY_PATH </span>environment
@@ -5974,17 +5972,17 @@ class="ec-lmss-12">mips-irix</span>, the MIPSpro 7.4 runtimes are
required.
</p>
</li></ul>
-<!--l. 3153--><p class="noindent" >
+<!--l. 3150--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.3 </span> <a
id="x1-750009.1.3"></a>2005</h5>
-<!--l. 3155--><p class="noindent" >2005 saw the usual huge number of updates to packages and programs. The infrastructure
+<!--l. 3152--><p class="noindent" >2005 saw the usual huge number of updates to packages and programs. The infrastructure
stayed relatively stable from 2004, but inevitably there were some changes there as
well:
</p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3161--><p class="noindent" >New scripts <span
+ <!--l. 3158--><p class="noindent" >New scripts <span
class="ec-lmss-12">texconfig-sys</span>, <span
class="ec-lmss-12">updmap-sys</span>, and <span
class="ec-lmss-12">fmtutil-sys </span>were introduced, which
@@ -5996,7 +5994,7 @@ class="ec-lmss-12">fmtutil</span>
class="ec-lmtt-12">$HOME/.texlive2005</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3167--><p class="noindent" >Corresponding new variables <span
+ <!--l. 3164--><p class="noindent" >Corresponding new variables <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFCONFIG </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFSYSCONFIG </span>to specify the
trees where configuration files (user or system, respectively) are found. Thus,
@@ -6015,7 +6013,7 @@ href="#x1-110002.3">2.3<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:texmftrees --></a>, p. <a
href="#x1-110002.3">10<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:texmftrees --></a>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3178--><p class="noindent" >Last year, we kept <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">\pdfoutput</code></span> and other primitives undefined for DVI output,
+ <!--l. 3175--><p class="noindent" >Last year, we kept <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">\pdfoutput</code></span> and other primitives undefined for DVI output,
even though the <span
class="ec-lmss-12">pdfetex </span>program was being used. This year, as promised, we undid
that compatibility measure. So if your document uses <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">\ifx\pdfoutput\undefined</code></span>
@@ -6025,7 +6023,7 @@ class="ec-lmss-12">ifpdf.sty </span>(which works under both plain TeX and LaTeX
logic.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3186--><p class="noindent" >Last year, we changed most formats to output (8-bit) characters as themselves (see
+ <!--l. 3183--><p class="noindent" >Last year, we changed most formats to output (8-bit) characters as themselves (see
previous section). The new TCX file <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">empty.tcx </span>now provides an easier way to get the
original <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">^^</code></span> notation if you so desire, as in:
@@ -6036,17 +6034,17 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">empty.tcx </span>now provides an easier way to get the
<pre class="fancyvrb" id="fancyvrb22"><a
id="x1-75002r1"></a>latex --translate-file=empty.tcx yourfile.tex</pre>
</pre>
- <!--l. 3192--><p class="nopar" >
+ <!--l. 3189--><p class="nopar" >
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3194--><p class="noindent" >The new program <span
+ <!--l. 3191--><p class="noindent" >The new program <span
class="ec-lmss-12">dvipdfmx </span>is included for translation of DVI to PDF; this is an actively
maintained update of <span
class="ec-lmss-12">dvipdfm </span>(which is also still available for now, though no longer
recommended).
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3199--><p class="noindent" >The new programs <span
+ <!--l. 3196--><p class="noindent" >The new programs <span
class="ec-lmss-12">pdfopen </span>and <span
class="ec-lmss-12">pdfclose </span>are included to allow reloading of PDF files in
the Adobe Acrobat Reader without restarting the program. (Other PDF readers, notably
@@ -6056,7 +6054,7 @@ class="ec-lmss-12">gv</span>, and <span
class="ec-lmss-12">gsview</span>, have never suffered from this problem.)
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3205--><p class="noindent" >For consistency, the variables <span
+ <!--l. 3202--><p class="noindent" >For consistency, the variables <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">HOMETEXMF </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">VARTEXMF </span>have been renamed to
<span
@@ -6066,24 +6064,24 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFVAR</span>, which is by default
user-specific. See the first point above.
</p>
</li></ul>
-<!--l. 3214--><p class="noindent" >
+<!--l. 3211--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.4 </span> <a
id="x1-760009.1.4"></a>2006–2007</h5>
-<!--l. 3216--><p class="noindent" >In 2006–2007, the major new addition to TeX Live was the XeTeX program, available as the
+<!--l. 3213--><p class="noindent" >In 2006–2007, the major new addition to TeX Live was the XeTeX program, available as the
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">xetex </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">xelatex </span>programs; see <a
href="https://scripts.sil.org/xetex" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://scripts.sil.org/xetex</span></a>.
-</p><!--l. 3220--><p class="indent" > MetaPost also received a notable update, with more planned for the
+</p><!--l. 3217--><p class="indent" > MetaPost also received a notable update, with more planned for the
future (<a
href="https://tug.org/metapost/articles" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/metapost/articles</span></a>), likewise pdfTeX (
<a
href="https://tug.org/applications/pdftex" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/applications/pdftex</span></a>).
-</p><!--l. 3224--><p class="indent" > The TeX <span
+</p><!--l. 3221--><p class="indent" > The TeX <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">.fmt </span>(high-speed format) and the similar files for MetaPost and Metafont are
now stored in subdirectories of <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf/web2c</span>, instead of in the directory itself (although the
@@ -6094,21 +6092,21 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">tex </span>or <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">pdftex </span>or <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">xetex</span>. This change should be invisible in normal
use.
-</p><!--l. 3232--><p class="indent" > The (plain) <span
+</p><!--l. 3229--><p class="indent" > The (plain) <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tex </span>program no longer reads <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">%&#x0026; </span>first lines to determine what format
to run; it is the pure Knuthian TeX. (LaTeX and everything else do still read <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">%&#x0026;</span>
lines).
-</p><!--l. 3236--><p class="indent" > Of course the year also saw (the usual) hundreds of other updates to packages and
+</p><!--l. 3233--><p class="indent" > Of course the year also saw (the usual) hundreds of other updates to packages and
programs. As usual, please check CTAN (<a
href="https://ctan.org" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://ctan.org</span></a>) for updates.
-</p><!--l. 3240--><p class="indent" > Internally, the source tree is now stored in Subversion, with a standard web interface for
+</p><!--l. 3237--><p class="indent" > Internally, the source tree is now stored in Subversion, with a standard web interface for
viewing the tree, as linked from our home page. Although not visible in the final
distribution, we expect this will provide a stable development foundation for future
years.
-</p><!--l. 3245--><p class="indent" > Finally, in May 2006 Thomas Esser announced that he would no longer be updating teTeX
+</p><!--l. 3242--><p class="indent" > Finally, in May 2006 Thomas Esser announced that he would no longer be updating teTeX
(<a
@@ -6118,75 +6116,75 @@ among GNU/Linux distributors. (There is a new <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tetex </span>installation scheme in TeX Live, which
provides an approximate equivalent.) We hope this will eventually translate to improvements
in the TeX environment for everyone.
-</p><!--l. 3253--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 3250--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.5 </span> <a
id="x1-770009.1.5"></a>2008</h5>
-<!--l. 3255--><p class="noindent" >In 2008, the entire TeX Live infrastructure was redesigned and reimplemented. Complete
+<!--l. 3252--><p class="noindent" >In 2008, the entire TeX Live infrastructure was redesigned and reimplemented. Complete
information about an installation is now stored in a plain text file <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3259--><p class="indent" > Among other things, this finally makes possible upgrading a TeX Live installation
+</p><!--l. 3256--><p class="indent" > Among other things, this finally makes possible upgrading a TeX Live installation
over the Internet after the initial installation, a feature MiKTeX has provided for
many years. We expect to regularly update new packages as they are released to
CTAN.
-</p><!--l. 3264--><p class="indent" > The major new engine LuaTeX (<a
+</p><!--l. 3261--><p class="indent" > The major new engine LuaTeX (<a
href="http://luatex.org" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">http://luatex.org</span></a>) is included; besides a new level of
flexibility in typesetting, this provides an excellent scripting language for use both inside and
outside of TeX documents.
-</p><!--l. 3269--><p class="indent" > Support among Windows and the Unix-based platforms is now much more uniform. In
+</p><!--l. 3266--><p class="indent" > Support among Windows and the Unix-based platforms is now much more uniform. In
particular, most Perl and Lua scripts are now available on Windows, using the Perl internally
distributed with TeX Live.
-</p><!--l. 3273--><p class="indent" > The new <span
+</p><!--l. 3270--><p class="indent" > The new <span
class="ec-lmss-12">tlmgr </span>script (section <a
href="#x1-430005">5<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:tlmgr --></a>) is the general interface for managing TeX Live after the
initial installation. It handles package updates and consequent regeneration of formats, map
files, and language files, optionally including local additions.
-</p><!--l. 3278--><p class="indent" > With the advent of <span
+</p><!--l. 3275--><p class="indent" > With the advent of <span
class="ec-lmss-12">tlmgr</span>, the <span
class="ec-lmss-12">texconfig </span>actions to edit the format and hyphenation
configuration files are now disabled.
-</p><!--l. 3281--><p class="indent" > The <span
+</p><!--l. 3278--><p class="indent" > The <span
class="ec-lmss-12">xindy </span>indexing program (<a
href="http://xindy.sourceforge.net/" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">http://xindy.sourceforge.net/</span></a>) is now included on
most platforms.
-</p><!--l. 3284--><p class="indent" > The <span
+</p><!--l. 3281--><p class="indent" > The <span
class="ec-lmss-12">kpsewhich </span>tool can now report all matches for a given file (option <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">--all</span>) and limit
matches to a given subdirectory (option <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">--subdir</span>).
-</p><!--l. 3288--><p class="indent" > The <span
+</p><!--l. 3285--><p class="indent" > The <span
class="ec-lmss-12">dvipdfmx </span>program now includes functionality to extract bounding box information, via
the command name <span
class="ec-lmss-12">extractbb</span>; this was one of the last features provided by <span
class="ec-lmss-12">dvipdfm </span>not in
<span
class="ec-lmss-12">dvipdfmx</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3293--><p class="indent" > The font aliases <span
+</p><!--l. 3290--><p class="indent" > The font aliases <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">Times-Roman</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">Helvetica</span>, and so on have been removed. Different
packages expected them to behave differently (in particular, to have different encodings), and
there was no good way to resolve this.
-</p><!--l. 3298--><p class="indent" > The <span
+</p><!--l. 3295--><p class="indent" > The <span
class="ec-lmss-12">platex </span>format has been removed, to resolve a name conflict with a completely different
Japanese <span
class="ec-lmss-12">platex</span>; the <span
class="ec-lmss-12">polski </span>package is now the main Polish support.
-</p><!--l. 3302--><p class="indent" > Internally, the <span
+</p><!--l. 3299--><p class="indent" > Internally, the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">WEB</span> string pool files are now compiled into the binaries, to ease
upgrades.
-</p><!--l. 3305--><p class="indent" > Finally, the changes made by Donald Knuth in his ‘TeX tuneup of 2008’ are included in
+</p><!--l. 3302--><p class="indent" > Finally, the changes made by Donald Knuth in his ‘TeX tuneup of 2008’ are included in
this release. See <a
href="https://tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb29-2/tb92knut.pdf" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb29-2/tb92knut.pdf</span></a>.
-</p><!--l. 3309--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 3306--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.6 </span> <a
id="x1-780009.1.6"></a>2009</h5>
-<!--l. 3311--><p class="noindent" >In 2009, the default output format for Lua(L<span
+<!--l. 3308--><p class="noindent" >In 2009, the default output format for Lua(L<span
class="ec-lmr-8">A</span>)TeX is now PDF, to take advantage of LuaTeX’s
OpenType support, et al. New executables named <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">dviluatex </span>and <span
@@ -6194,10 +6192,10 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">dvilualatex </span>run
LuaTeX with DVI output. The LuaTeX home page is <a
href="http://luatex.org" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">http://luatex.org</span></a>.
-</p><!--l. 3316--><p class="indent" > The original Omega engine and Lambda format have been excised, after discussions
+</p><!--l. 3313--><p class="indent" > The original Omega engine and Lambda format have been excised, after discussions
with the Omega authors. The updated Aleph and Lamed remain, as do the Omega
utilities.
-</p><!--l. 3320--><p class="indent" > A new release of the AMS Type 1 fonts is included, including Computer Modern: a few shape
+</p><!--l. 3317--><p class="indent" > A new release of the AMS Type 1 fonts is included, including Computer Modern: a few shape
changes made over the years by Knuth in the Metafont sources have been integrated, and the
hinting has been updated. The Euler fonts have been thoroughly reshaped by Hermann Zapf (see
<a
@@ -6206,31 +6204,31 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb29-2/tb92hagen-euler.pdf</
remain unchanged. The AMS fonts home page is <a
href="https://ams.org/tex/amsfonts.html" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://ams.org/tex/amsfonts.html</span></a>.
-</p><!--l. 3328--><p class="indent" > The new GUI front end TeXworks is included for Windows, and also in MacTeX. For other
+</p><!--l. 3325--><p class="indent" > The new GUI front end TeXworks is included for Windows, and also in MacTeX. For other
platforms, and more information, see the TeXworks home page, <a
href="https://tug.org/texworks" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/texworks</span></a>.
It is a cross-platform front-end inspired by the macOS TeXShop editor, aiming at
ease-of-use.
-</p><!--l. 3334--><p class="indent" > The graphics program Asymptote is included for several platforms. This implements a
+</p><!--l. 3331--><p class="indent" > The graphics program Asymptote is included for several platforms. This implements a
text-based graphics description language vaguely akin to MetaPost, but with advanced 3D
support and other features. Its home page is <a
href="https://asymptote.sourceforge.io" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://asymptote.sourceforge.io</span></a>.
-</p><!--l. 3339--><p class="indent" > The separate <span
+</p><!--l. 3336--><p class="indent" > The separate <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">dvipdfm </span>program has been replaced by <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">dvipdfmx</span>, which operates in a special
compatibility mode under that name. <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">dvipdfmx </span>includes CJK support and has accumulated
many other fixes over the years since the last <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">dvipdfm </span>release.
-</p><!--l. 3345--><p class="indent" > Executables for the <span
+</p><!--l. 3342--><p class="indent" > Executables for the <span
class="ec-lmss-12">cygwin </span>and <span
class="ec-lmss-12">i386-netbsd </span>platforms are now included, while we were
advised that OpenBSD users get TeX through their package systems, plus there
were difficulties in making binaries that have a chance of working on more than one
version.
-</p><!--l. 3350--><p class="indent" > A miscellany of smaller changes: we now use <span
+</p><!--l. 3347--><p class="indent" > A miscellany of smaller changes: we now use <span
class="ec-lmss-12">xz </span>compression, the stable replacement for
<span
class="ec-lmss-12">lzma </span>(<a
@@ -6238,20 +6236,20 @@ href="https://tukaani.org/xz/" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tukaani.org/xz/</span></a>); a literal <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">$</code></span> is allowed in filenames when it does not
introduce a known variable name; the Kpathsea library is now multi-threaded (made use of in
MetaPost); the entire TeX Live build is now based on Automake.
-</p><!--l. 3357--><p class="indent" > Final note on the past: all releases of TeX Live, along with ancillary material such as
+</p><!--l. 3354--><p class="indent" > Final note on the past: all releases of TeX Live, along with ancillary material such as
CD labels, are available at <a
href="ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive</span></a>.
-</p><!--l. 3362--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 3359--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.7 </span> <a
id="x1-790009.1.7"></a>2010</h5>
-<!--l. 3365--><p class="noindent" >In 2010, the default version for PDF output is now 1.5, enabling more compression. This
+<!--l. 3362--><p class="noindent" >In 2010, the default version for PDF output is now 1.5, enabling more compression. This
applies to all the TeX engines when used to produce PDF and to <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">dvipdfmx</span>. Loading the <span
class="ec-lmss-12">pdf14</span>
LaTeX package changes back to PDF 1.4, or set <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">\pdfminorversion=4</code></span>.
-</p><!--l. 3370--><p class="indent" > pdf(L<span
+</p><!--l. 3367--><p class="indent" > pdf(L<span
class="ec-lmr-8">A</span>)TeX now <span
class="ec-lmri-12">automatically </span>converts a requested Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) file to
PDF, via the <span
@@ -6271,7 +6269,7 @@ class="ec-lmss-12">epstopdf </span>package documentation (
<a
href="https://ctan.org/pkg/epstopdf-pkg" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://ctan.org/pkg/epstopdf-pkg</span></a>).
-</p><!--l. 3382--><p class="indent" > A related change is that execution of a very few external commands from TeX, via
+</p><!--l. 3379--><p class="indent" > A related change is that execution of a very few external commands from TeX, via
the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\write18 </span>feature, is now enabled by default. These commands are <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">repstopdf</span>,
@@ -6285,15 +6283,15 @@ Environments which must disallow all such external commands can deselect this op
the installer (see section <a
href="#x1-260003.2.4">3.2.4<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:options --></a>), or override the value after installation by running
<span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">tlmgr conf texmf shell_escape 0</code></span>.
-</p><!--l. 3391--><p class="indent" > Yet another related change is that BibTeX and Makeindex now refuse to write their output
+</p><!--l. 3388--><p class="indent" > Yet another related change is that BibTeX and Makeindex now refuse to write their output
files to an arbitrary directory (like TeX itself), by default. This is so they can now be enabled
for use by the restricted <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\write18</span>. To change this, the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFOUTPUT </span>environment variable can
be set, or the <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">openout_any</code></span> setting changed.
-</p><!--l. 3397--><p class="indent" > XeTeX now supports margin kerning along the same lines as pdfTeX. (Font expansion is
+</p><!--l. 3394--><p class="indent" > XeTeX now supports margin kerning along the same lines as pdfTeX. (Font expansion is
not presently supported.)
-</p><!--l. 3400--><p class="indent" > By default, <span
+</p><!--l. 3397--><p class="indent" > By default, <span
class="ec-lmss-12">tlmgr </span>now saves one backup of each package updated (<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlmgr option</span>
<span
@@ -6303,7 +6301,7 @@ do post-install updates, and don’t have the disk space for the backups, run <s
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlmgr option</span>
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">autobackup 0</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3406--><p class="indent" > New programs included: the pTeX engine and related utilities for typesetting Japanese; the
+</p><!--l. 3403--><p class="indent" > New programs included: the pTeX engine and related utilities for typesetting Japanese; the
BibTeXU program for Unicode-enabled BibTeX; the <span
class="ec-lmss-12">chktex </span>utility (originally from
<a
@@ -6314,7 +6312,7 @@ class="ec-lmss-12">dvisvgm </span>(
<a
href="https://dvisvgm.de" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://dvisvgm.de</span></a>) DVI-to-SVG translator.
-</p><!--l. 3414--><p class="indent" > Executables for these new platforms are included: <span
+</p><!--l. 3411--><p class="indent" > Executables for these new platforms are included: <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">amd64-freebsd</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">amd64-kfreebsd</span>,
<span
@@ -6322,54 +6320,54 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">i386-freebsd</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">i386-kfreebsd</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">x86_64-darwin</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">x86_64-solaris</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3418--><p class="indent" > A change in TeX Live 2009 that we failed to note: numerous TeX4ht-related executables (
+</p><!--l. 3415--><p class="indent" > A change in TeX Live 2009 that we failed to note: numerous TeX4ht-related executables (
<a
href="https://tug.org/tex4ht" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/tex4ht</span></a>) were removed from the binary directories. The generic <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">mk4ht</span>
program can be used to run any of the various <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tex4ht </span>combinations.
-</p><!--l. 3423--><p class="indent" > Finally, the TeX Live release on the TeX Collection DVD can no longer be run live (oddly
+</p><!--l. 3420--><p class="indent" > Finally, the TeX Live release on the TeX Collection DVD can no longer be run live (oddly
enough). A single DVD no longer has enough room. One beneficial side effect is that
installation from the physical DVD is much faster.
-</p><!--l. 3428--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 3425--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.8 </span> <a
id="x1-800009.1.8"></a>2011</h5>
-<!--l. 3430--><p class="noindent" >The macOS binaries (<span
+<!--l. 3427--><p class="noindent" >The macOS binaries (<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">universal-darwin </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">x86_64-darwin</span>) now work only on Leopard or
later; Panther and Tiger are no longer supported.
-</p><!--l. 3434--><p class="indent" > The <span
+</p><!--l. 3431--><p class="indent" > The <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">biber </span>program for bibliography processing is included on common platforms. Its
development is closely coupled with the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">biblatex </span>package, which completely reimplements the
bibliographical facilities provided by LaTeX.
-</p><!--l. 3439--><p class="indent" > The MetaPost (<span
+</p><!--l. 3436--><p class="indent" > The MetaPost (<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">mpost</span>) program no longer creates or uses <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">.mem </span>files. The needed files, such
as <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">plain.mp</span>, are simply read on every run. This is related to supporting MetaPost as a library,
which is another significant though not user-visible change.
-</p><!--l. 3444--><p class="indent" > The <span
+</p><!--l. 3441--><p class="indent" > The <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">updmap </span>implementation in Perl, previously used only on Windows, has been revamped
and is now used on all platforms. There shouldn’t be any user-visible changes as a result,
except that it runs much faster.
-</p><!--l. 3449--><p class="indent" > The <span
+</p><!--l. 3446--><p class="indent" > The <span
class="ec-lmss-12">initex </span>and <span
class="ec-lmss-12">inimf </span>programs were restored (but no other <span
class="ec-lmss-12">ini* </span>variants).
-</p><!--l. 3452--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 3449--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.9 </span> <a
id="x1-810009.1.9"></a>2012</h5>
-<!--l. 3454--><p class="noindent" ><span
+<!--l. 3451--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlmgr </span>supports updates from multiple network repositories. The section on multiple
repositories in the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlmgr help </span>output has more.
-</p><!--l. 3458--><p class="indent" > The parameter <span
+</p><!--l. 3455--><p class="indent" > The parameter <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\XeTeXdashbreakstate </span>is set to 1 by default, for both <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">xetex </span>and
<span
@@ -6378,38 +6376,38 @@ behavior of plain TeX, LaTeX, LuaTeX, etc. Existing XeTeX documents which must
retain perfect line-break compatibility will need to set <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\XeTeXdashbreakstate </span>to 0
explicitly.
-</p><!--l. 3465--><p class="indent" > The output files generated by <span
+</p><!--l. 3462--><p class="indent" > The output files generated by <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">pdftex </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">dvips</span>, among others, can now exceed 2
gigabytes.
-</p><!--l. 3468--><p class="indent" > The 35 standard PostScript fonts are included in the output of <span
+</p><!--l. 3465--><p class="indent" > The 35 standard PostScript fonts are included in the output of <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">dvips </span>by default, since so
many different versions of them are extant.
-</p><!--l. 3472--><p class="indent" > In the restricted <span
+</p><!--l. 3469--><p class="indent" > In the restricted <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\write18 </span>execution mode, set by default, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">mpost </span>is now an allowed
program.
-</p><!--l. 3475--><p class="indent" > A <span
+</p><!--l. 3472--><p class="indent" > A <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf.cnf </span>file is also found in <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">../texmf-local</span>, e.g.,
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/web2c/texmf.cnf</span>, if it exists.
-</p><!--l. 3479--><p class="indent" > The <span
+</p><!--l. 3476--><p class="indent" > The <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">updmap </span>script reads a per-tree <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">updmap.cfg </span>instead of one global config. This change
should be invisible, unless you edited your updmap.cfg’s directly. The <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">updmap --help</code></span> output
has more.
-</p><!--l. 3483--><p class="indent" > Platforms: <span
+</p><!--l. 3480--><p class="indent" > Platforms: <span
class="ec-lmss-12">armel-linux </span>and <span
class="ec-lmss-12">mipsel-linux </span>added; <span
class="ec-lmss-12">sparc-linux </span>and <span
class="ec-lmss-12">i386-netbsd </span>are no longer in
the main distribution.
-</p><!--l. 3487--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 3484--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.10 </span> <a
id="x1-820009.1.10"></a>2013</h5>
-<!--l. 3489--><p class="noindent" >Distribution layout: the top-level <span
+<!--l. 3486--><p class="noindent" >Distribution layout: the top-level <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf/ </span>directory has been merged into <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf-dist/</span>, for
simplicity. Both the <span
@@ -6417,74 +6415,74 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFMAIN </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFDIST </span>Kpathsea variables now point to
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf-dist</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3494--><p class="indent" > Many small language collections have been merged together, to simplify installation.
-</p><!--l. 3497--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: native support for PNG output and floating-point (IEEE double) has been
+</p><!--l. 3491--><p class="indent" > Many small language collections have been merged together, to simplify installation.
+</p><!--l. 3494--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: native support for PNG output and floating-point (IEEE double) has been
added.
-</p><!--l. 3500--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: updated to Lua 5.2, and includes a new library (<span
+</p><!--l. 3497--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: updated to Lua 5.2, and includes a new library (<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">pdfscanner</span>) to process external
PDF page content, among much else (see its web pages).
-</p><!--l. 3504--><p class="indent" > XeTeX (also see its web pages for more): </p>
+</p><!--l. 3501--><p class="indent" > XeTeX (also see its web pages for more): </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3506--><p class="noindent" >The HarfBuzz library is now used for font layout instead of ICU. (ICU is still
+ <!--l. 3503--><p class="noindent" >The HarfBuzz library is now used for font layout instead of ICU. (ICU is still
used to support input encodings, bidirectionality, and the optional Unicode line
breaking.)
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3509--><p class="noindent" >Graphite2 and HarfBuzz are used instead of SilGraphite for Graphite layout.
+ <!--l. 3506--><p class="noindent" >Graphite2 and HarfBuzz are used instead of SilGraphite for Graphite layout.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3511--><p class="noindent" >On Macs, Core Text is used instead of the (deprecated) ATSUI.
+ <!--l. 3508--><p class="noindent" >On Macs, Core Text is used instead of the (deprecated) ATSUI.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3512--><p class="noindent" >Prefer TrueType/OpenType fonts to Type1 when the names are the same.
+ <!--l. 3509--><p class="noindent" >Prefer TrueType/OpenType fonts to Type1 when the names are the same.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3513--><p class="noindent" >Fix occasional mismatch in font finding between XeTeX and <span
+ <!--l. 3510--><p class="noindent" >Fix occasional mismatch in font finding between XeTeX and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">xdvipdfmx</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3515--><p class="noindent" >Support OpenType math cut-ins.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 3518--><p class="indent" > <span
+ <!--l. 3512--><p class="noindent" >Support OpenType math cut-ins.</p></li></ul>
+<!--l. 3515--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmss-12">xdvi</span>: now uses FreeType instead of <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">t1lib </span>for rendering.
-</p><!--l. 3520--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 3517--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmss-12">microtype.sty</span>: some support for XeTeX (protrusion) and LuaTeX (protrusion, font
expansion, tracking), among other enhancements.
-</p><!--l. 3524--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 3521--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmss-12">tlmgr</span>: new <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">pinning </span>action to ease configuring multiple repositories; that section in <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">tlmgr --help</code></span>
has more, online at <a
href="https://tug.org/texlive/doc/tlmgr.html#MULTIPLE-REPOSITORIES" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/texlive/doc/tlmgr.html#MULTIPLE-REPOSITORIES</span></a>.
-</p><!--l. 3528--><p class="indent" > Platforms: <span
+</p><!--l. 3525--><p class="indent" > Platforms: <span
class="ec-lmss-12">armhf-linux</span>, <span
class="ec-lmss-12">mips-irix</span>, <span
class="ec-lmss-12">i386-netbsd</span>, and <span
class="ec-lmss-12">amd64-netbsd </span>added or revived;
<span
class="ec-lmss-12">powerpc-aix </span>removed.
-</p><!--l. 3532--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 3529--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.11 </span> <a
id="x1-830009.1.11"></a>2014</h5>
-<!--l. 3534--><p class="noindent" >2014 saw another TeX tune-up from Knuth; this affected all engines, but the only visible
+<!--l. 3531--><p class="noindent" >2014 saw another TeX tune-up from Knuth; this affected all engines, but the only visible
change likely is the restoration of the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">preloaded format </span>string on the banner line. Per Knuth,
this now reflects the format that <span
class="ec-lmri-12">would </span>be loaded by default, rather than an undumped
format that is actually preloaded in the binary; it may be overridden in various
ways.
-</p><!--l. 3541--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: new warning-suppression parameter <span
+</p><!--l. 3538--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: new warning-suppression parameter <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfsuppresswarningpagegroup</span>; new
primitives for fake interword spaces to help with PDF text reflowing: <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfinterwordspaceon</span>,
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfinterwordspaceoff</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdffakespace</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3546--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: Notable changes and fixes were made to font loading and hyphenation. The
+</p><!--l. 3543--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: Notable changes and fixes were made to font loading and hyphenation. The
biggest addition is a new engine variant, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">luajittex </span>and its siblings <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texluajit </span>and
@@ -6499,10 +6497,10 @@ not available on all platforms, and is considerably less stable than <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">luatex</span>. Neither we nor its
developers recommend using it except for the specific purpose of experimenting with jit on Lua
code.
-</p><!--l. 3557--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: The same image formats are now supported on all platforms (including Mac);
+</p><!--l. 3554--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: The same image formats are now supported on all platforms (including Mac);
avoid Unicode compatibility decomposition fallback (but not other variants); prefer OpenType
to Graphite fonts, for compatibility with previous XeTeX versions.
-</p><!--l. 3562--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: A new numbersystem <span
+</p><!--l. 3559--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: A new numbersystem <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">decimal </span>is supported, along with a companion internal
@@ -6511,12 +6509,12 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">numberprecision</span>; a new definition of <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">drawdot </span>in <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">plain.mp</span>, per Knuth; bug fixes in SVG and
PNG output, among others.
-</p><!--l. 3567--><p class="indent" > The <span
+</p><!--l. 3564--><p class="indent" > The <span
class="ec-lmss-12">pstopdf </span>ConTeXt utility will be removed as a standalone command at some point after
the release, due to conflicts with OS utilities of the same name. It can still (and now) be
invoked as <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">mtxrun –script pstopdf</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3572--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 3569--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmss-12">psutils </span>has been substantially revised by a new maintainer. As a result, several seldom-used
utilities (<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">fix*</span>, <span
@@ -6527,7 +6525,7 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">scripts/ </span>directory rather
than being user-level executables (this can be reversed if it turns out to be problematic). A
new script, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">psjoin</span>, has been added.
-</p><!--l. 3579--><p class="indent" > The MacTeX redistribution of TeX Live (section <a
+</p><!--l. 3576--><p class="indent" > The MacTeX redistribution of TeX Live (section <a
href="#x1-170003.1.2">3.1.2<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:macosx --></a>) no longer includes the optional
Mac-only packages for the Latin Modern and TeX Gyre fonts, since it is easy enough for
individual users to make them available to the system. The <span
@@ -6535,18 +6533,18 @@ class="ec-lmss-12">convert </span>program from
ImageMagick has also been excised, since TeX4ht (specifically <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tex4ht.env</span>) now uses
Ghostscript directly.
-</p><!--l. 3586--><p class="indent" > The <span
+</p><!--l. 3583--><p class="indent" > The <span
class="ec-lmss-12">langcjk </span>collection for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean support has been split into
individual language collections for the sake of more moderate sizes.
-</p><!--l. 3590--><p class="indent" > Platforms: <span
+</p><!--l. 3587--><p class="indent" > Platforms: <span
class="ec-lmss-12">x86_64-cygwin </span>added, <span
class="ec-lmss-12">mips-irix </span>removed; Microsoft no longer supports Windows
XP, so our programs may start failing there at any time.
-</p><!--l. 3594--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 3591--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.12 </span> <a
id="x1-840009.1.12"></a>2015</h5>
-<!--l. 3596--><p class="noindent" >LaTeX2e now incorporates, by default, changes previously included only by explicitly loading
+<!--l. 3593--><p class="noindent" >LaTeX2e now incorporates, by default, changes previously included only by explicitly loading
the <span
class="ec-lmss-12">fixltx2e </span>package, which is now a no-op. A new <span
class="ec-lmss-12">latexrelease </span>package and other mechanisms
@@ -6556,35 +6554,35 @@ class="ec-lmss-12">babel </span>and <span
class="ec-lmss-12">psnfss </span>packages, while core parts of LaTeX,
are maintained separately and are not affected by these changes (and should still
work).
-</p><!--l. 3605--><p class="indent" > Internally, LaTeX2e now includes Unicode-related engine configuration (what characters
+</p><!--l. 3602--><p class="indent" > Internally, LaTeX2e now includes Unicode-related engine configuration (what characters
are letters, naming of primitives, etc.) which was previously part of TeX Live. This change is
intended to be invisible to users; a few low-level internal control sequences have been renamed
or removed, but the behavior should be just the same.
-</p><!--l. 3611--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: Support JPEG Exif as well as JFIF; do not emit a warning if
+</p><!--l. 3608--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: Support JPEG Exif as well as JFIF; do not emit a warning if
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfinclusionerrorlevel </span>is negative; sync with <span
class="ec-lmss-12">xpdf</span> 3.04.
-</p><!--l. 3615--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: New library <span
+</p><!--l. 3612--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: New library <span
class="ec-lmss-12">newtokenlib </span>for scanning tokens; bug fixes in the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">normal </span>random
number generator and other places.
-</p><!--l. 3618--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: Image handling fixes; <span
+</p><!--l. 3615--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: Image handling fixes; <span
class="ec-lmss-12">xdvipdfmx </span>binary looked for first as a sibling to <span
class="ec-lmss-12">xetex</span>;
internal <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">XDV </span>opcodes changed.
-</p><!--l. 3621--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: New numbersystem <span
+</p><!--l. 3618--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: New numbersystem <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">binary</span>; new Japanese-enabled <span
class="ec-lmss-12">upmpost </span>and <span
class="ec-lmss-12">updvitomp</span>
programs, analogous to <span
class="ec-lmss-12">up*tex</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3625--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: Updates to the included Ghostscript package for CJK support. The
+</p><!--l. 3622--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: Updates to the included Ghostscript package for CJK support. The
TeX Distribution Preference Pane now works in Yosemite (macOS 10.10). Resource-fork font
suitcases (generally without an extension) are no longer supported by XeTeX; data-fork
suitcases (<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">.dfont</span>) remain supported.
-</p><!--l. 3631--><p class="indent" > Infrastructure: The <span
+</p><!--l. 3628--><p class="indent" > Infrastructure: The <span
class="ec-lmss-12">fmtutil </span>script has been reimplemented to read <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">fmtutil.cnf </span>on a
@@ -6598,7 +6596,7 @@ class="ec-lmss-12">mktextfm</span>,
class="ec-lmss-12">mktexpk</span>) now prefer programs in their own directory, instead of always using the existing
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">PATH</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3637--><p class="indent" > Platforms: <span
+</p><!--l. 3634--><p class="indent" > Platforms: <span
class="ec-lmss-12">*-kfreebsd </span>removed, since TeX Live is now easily available through the system
platform mechanisms. Support for some additional platforms is available as custom binaries (
<a
@@ -6606,11 +6604,11 @@ href="https://tug.org/texlive/custom-bin.html" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/texlive/custom-bin.html</span></a>). In addition, some platforms are now
omitted from the DVD (simply to save space), but can be installed normally over the
net.
-</p><!--l. 3645--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 3642--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.13 </span> <a
id="x1-850009.1.13"></a>2016</h5>
-<!--l. 3647--><p class="noindent" >LuaTeX: Sweeping changes to primitives, both renames and removals, along
+<!--l. 3644--><p class="noindent" >LuaTeX: Sweeping changes to primitives, both renames and removals, along
with some node structure rearrangements. The changes are summarized in an
article by Hans Hagen, “LuaTeX 0.90 backend changes for PDF and more” (
<a
@@ -6618,10 +6616,10 @@ href="https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb37-1/tb115hagen-pdf.pdf" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb37-1/tb115hagen-pdf.pdf</span></a>); for all the details, see the
LuaTeX manual, <a
href="../../../../texmf-dist/doc/luatex/base/luatex.pdf" >texmf-dist/doc/luatex/base/luatex.pdf</a>.
-</p><!--l. 3655--><p class="indent" > Metafont: New highly experimental sibling programs MFlua and MFluajit, integrating Lua
+</p><!--l. 3652--><p class="indent" > Metafont: New highly experimental sibling programs MFlua and MFluajit, integrating Lua
with Metafont, for trial testing purposes.
-</p><!--l. 3658--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: Bug fixes and internal preparations for MetaPost 2.0.
-</p><!--l. 3660--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 3655--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: Bug fixes and internal preparations for MetaPost 2.0.
+</p><!--l. 3657--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH </span>support in all engines except LuaTeX (which will come in the
next release) and original <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tex </span>(intentionally omitted): if the environment variable
@@ -6636,36 +6634,36 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">\month</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\day</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\time</span>. The pdfTeX manual has examples
and details.
-</p><!--l. 3669--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: Three new primitives <span
+</p><!--l. 3666--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: Three new primitives <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfinfoomitdate</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfsuppressptexinfo</span>, and
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdftrailerid</span>, to control values appearing in the output which normally change with each
run. These features are for PDF output only, not DVI.
-</p><!--l. 3674--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: New primitives <span
+</p><!--l. 3671--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: New primitives <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\XeTeXhyphenatablelength</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\XeTeXgenerateactualtext</span>,<br
class="newline" /><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\XeTeXinterwordspaceshaping</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\mdfivesum</span>; character class limit increased to 4096; DVI id
byte incremented.
-</p><!--l. 3679--><p class="indent" > Other utilities: </p>
+</p><!--l. 3676--><p class="indent" > Other utilities: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3681--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 3678--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">gregorio </span>is a new program, part of the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">gregoriotex </span>package for typesetting
Gregorian chant scores; it is included in <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">shell_escape_commands </span>by default.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3685--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 3682--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">upmendex </span>is an index creation program, mostly compatible with <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">makeindex</span>, with
support for Unicode sorting, among other changes.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3689--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 3686--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">afm2tfm </span>now makes only accent-based height adjustments upward; a new option
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">-a </span>omits all adjustments.
@@ -6673,43 +6671,43 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">-a </span>omits all adjustments.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3692--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 3689--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">ps2pk </span>can handle extended PK/GF fonts.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 3695--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: The TeX Distribution Preference Pane is gone; its functionality is now in TeX
+<!--l. 3692--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: The TeX Distribution Preference Pane is gone; its functionality is now in TeX
Live Utility; bundled GUI applications upgraded; new script <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">cjk-gs-integrate </span>to be run by
users who wish to incorporate various CJK fonts into Ghostscript.
-</p><!--l. 3700--><p class="indent" > Infrastructure: System-level <span
+</p><!--l. 3697--><p class="indent" > Infrastructure: System-level <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlmgr </span>configuration file supported; verify package
checksums; if GPG is available, verify signature of network updates. These checks
happen with both the installer and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlmgr</span>. If GPG is not available, updates proceed as
usual.
-</p><!--l. 3705--><p class="indent" > Platforms: <span
+</p><!--l. 3702--><p class="indent" > Platforms: <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">alpha-linux </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">mipsel-linux </span>removed.
-</p><!--l. 3708--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 3705--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.14 </span> <a
id="x1-860009.1.14"></a>2017</h5>
-<!--l. 3710--><p class="noindent" >LuaTeX: More callbacks, more typesetting control, more access to internals; <span
+<!--l. 3707--><p class="noindent" >LuaTeX: More callbacks, more typesetting control, more access to internals; <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">ffi </span>library for
dynamic code loading added on some platforms.
-</p><!--l. 3714--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: Environment variable <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH_TEX_PRIMITIVES</code></span> from last year
+</p><!--l. 3711--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: Environment variable <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH_TEX_PRIMITIVES</code></span> from last year
renamed to <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">FORCE_SOURCE_DATE</code></span>, with no changes in functionality; if the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfpageattr </span>token
list contains the string <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">/MediaBox</span>, omit output of the default <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">/MediaBox</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3719--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: Unicode/OpenType math now based on HarfBuzz’s MATH table support; some
+</p><!--l. 3716--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: Unicode/OpenType math now based on HarfBuzz’s MATH table support; some
bug fixes.
-</p><!--l. 3722--><p class="indent" > Dvips: Make the last papersize special win, for consistency with <span
+</p><!--l. 3719--><p class="indent" > Dvips: Make the last papersize special win, for consistency with <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">dvipdfmx </span>and package
expectations; the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">-L0 </span>option (<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">L0 </span>config setting) restores the previous behavior of the first
special winning.
-</p><!--l. 3727--><p class="indent" > epTeX, eupTeX: New primitives <span
+</p><!--l. 3724--><p class="indent" > epTeX, eupTeX: New primitives <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfuniformdeviate</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfnormaldeviate</span>,
<span
@@ -6718,14 +6716,14 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfsetrandomseed</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfelapsedtime</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfresettimer</span>, from
pdfTeX.
-</p><!--l. 3731--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: As of this year, only macOS releases for which Apple still releases security
+</p><!--l. 3728--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: As of this year, only macOS releases for which Apple still releases security
patches will be supported in MacTeX, under the platform name <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">x86_64-darwin</code></span>; currently this
means Yosemite, El Capitan, and Sierra (10.10 and newer). Binaries for older macOS versions
are not included in MacTeX, but are still available in TeX Live (<span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">x86_64-darwinlegacy</code></span>,
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">i386-darwin</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">powerpc-darwin</span>).
-</p><!--l. 3738--><p class="indent" > Infrastructure: The <span
+</p><!--l. 3735--><p class="indent" > Infrastructure: The <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFLOCAL </span>tree is now searched before <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFSYSCONFIG </span>and
<span
@@ -6736,7 +6734,7 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">shell </span>for interactive
and scripted use, and a new action <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">conf auxtrees </span>to easily add and remove extra
trees.
-</p><!--l. 3745--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 3742--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">updmap </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">fmtutil</span>: These scripts now give a warning when invoked without explicitly
specifying either so-called system mode (<span
@@ -6752,7 +6750,7 @@ system updates. See <a
href="https://tug.org/texlive/scripts-sys-user.html" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/texlive/scripts-sys-user.html</span></a> for
details.
-</p><!--l. 3753--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 3750--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">install-tl</span>: Personal paths such as <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFHOME </span>are now set to MacTeX values
@@ -6762,24 +6760,24 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">-init-from-profile </span>to start an
installation with the values from a given profile; new command <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">P </span>to explicitly save a profile;
new profile variable names (but previous ones are still accepted).
-</p><!--l. 3760--><p class="indent" > SyncTeX: the name of the temporary file now looks like <span
+</p><!--l. 3757--><p class="indent" > SyncTeX: the name of the temporary file now looks like <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">foo.synctex(busy)</span>, instead of
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">foo.synctex.gz(busy) </span>(no <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">.gz</span>). Front-ends and build systems that want to remove temp
files may need adjusting.
-</p><!--l. 3765--><p class="indent" > Other utilities: <span
+</p><!--l. 3762--><p class="indent" > Other utilities: <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texosquery-jre8 </span>is a new cross-platform program for retrieving locale and
other OS information from a TeX document; it is included in <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">shell_escape_commands</code></span> by
default for restricted shell execution. (Older JRE versions are supported by texosquery, but
cannot be enabled in restricted mode, as they are no longer supported by Oracle, even for
security issues.)
-</p><!--l. 3772--><p class="indent" > Platforms: See MacTeX entry above; no other changes.
-</p><!--l. 3775--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 3769--><p class="indent" > Platforms: See MacTeX entry above; no other changes.
+</p><!--l. 3772--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.15 </span> <a
id="x1-870009.1.15"></a>2018</h5>
-<!--l. 3777--><p class="noindent" >Kpathsea: Case-insensitive filename matching now done by default in non-system directories;
+<!--l. 3774--><p class="noindent" >Kpathsea: Case-insensitive filename matching now done by default in non-system directories;
set <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf.cnf </span>or environment variable <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf_casefold_search </span>to <span
@@ -6787,28 +6785,28 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">0 </span>to disable. Full details
in the Kpathsea manual (<a
href="https://tug.org/kpathsea" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/kpathsea</span></a>).
-</p><!--l. 3782--><p class="indent" > epTeX, eupTeX: New primitive <span
+</p><!--l. 3779--><p class="indent" > epTeX, eupTeX: New primitive <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\epTeXversion</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3784--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: Preparation for moving to Lua 5.3 in 2019: a binary <span
+</p><!--l. 3781--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: Preparation for moving to Lua 5.3 in 2019: a binary <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">luatex53 </span>is available on
most platforms, but must be renamed to <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">luatex </span>to be effective. Or use the ConTeXt Garden (
<a
href="https://wiki.contextgarden.net" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://wiki.contextgarden.net</span></a>) files; more information there.
-</p><!--l. 3789--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: Fixes for wrong path directions, TFM and PNG output.
-</p><!--l. 3791--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: Allow encoding vectors for bitmap fonts; current directory not hashed into PDF
+</p><!--l. 3786--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: Fixes for wrong path directions, TFM and PNG output.
+</p><!--l. 3788--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: Allow encoding vectors for bitmap fonts; current directory not hashed into PDF
ID; bug fixes for <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfprimitive </span>and related.
-</p><!--l. 3794--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: Support <span
+</p><!--l. 3791--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: Support <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">/Rotate </span>in PDF image inclusion; exit nonzero if the output driver fails;
various obscure UTF-8 and other primitive fixes.
-</p><!--l. 3798--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: See version support changes below. In addition, the files installed in
+</p><!--l. 3795--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: See version support changes below. In addition, the files installed in
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">/Applications/TeX/ </span>by MacTeX have been reorganized for greater clarity; now this location
contains four GUI programs (BibDesk, LaTeXiT, TeX Live Utility, and TeXShop) at the top
level and folders with additional utilities and documentation.
-</p><!--l. 3804--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 3801--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlmgr</span>: new front-ends <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlshell </span>(Tcl/Tk) and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlcockpit </span>(Java); JSON output; <span
@@ -6816,20 +6814,20 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">uninstall</span>
now a synonym for <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">remove</span>; new action/option <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">print-platform-info</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3808--><p class="indent" > Platforms: </p>
+</p><!--l. 3805--><p class="indent" > Platforms: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3811--><p class="noindent" >Removed: <span
+ <!--l. 3808--><p class="noindent" >Removed: <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">armel-linux</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">powerpc-linux</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3813--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 3810--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">x86_64-darwin </span>supports 10.10–10.13 (Yosemite, El Capitan, Sierra, and
High Sierra).
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3816--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 3813--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">x86_64-darwinlegacy </span>supports 10.6–10.10 (though <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">x86_64-darwin </span>is preferred
@@ -6840,36 +6838,36 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">powerpc-darwin</span>
class="ec-lmtt-12">i386-darwin platforms </span>have been removed.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3821--><p class="noindent" >Windows: XP is no longer supported.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 3825--><p class="noindent" >
+ <!--l. 3818--><p class="noindent" >Windows: XP is no longer supported.</p></li></ul>
+<!--l. 3822--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.16 </span> <a
id="x1-880009.1.16"></a>2019</h5>
-<!--l. 3827--><p class="noindent" >Kpathsea: More consistent brace expansion and path splitting; new variable <span
+<!--l. 3824--><p class="noindent" >Kpathsea: More consistent brace expansion and path splitting; new variable <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFDOTDIR</span>
instead of hard-coded <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">.</span> in paths allows for easily searching additional or sub-directories (see
comments in <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf.cnf</span>).
-</p><!--l. 3832--><p class="indent" > epTeX, eupTeX: New primitives <span
+</p><!--l. 3829--><p class="indent" > epTeX, eupTeX: New primitives <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\readpapersizespecial </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\expanded</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3835--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: Lua 5.3 now used, with concomitant arithmetic and interface changes. The
+</p><!--l. 3832--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: Lua 5.3 now used, with concomitant arithmetic and interface changes. The
homegrown library pplib is used to read pdf files, thus eliminating the dependency on poppler
(and the need for C++); Lua interface changed accordingly.
-</p><!--l. 3840--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: <span
+</p><!--l. 3837--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">r-mpost </span>command name recognized as an alias for invocation with the
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">--restricted </span>option, and added to the list of restricted commands available by default.
Minimum precision now 2 for decimal and binary mode. Binary mode no longer available in
MPlib but still available in standalone MetaPost.
-</p><!--l. 3847--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: New primitive <span
+</p><!--l. 3844--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: New primitive <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\expanded</span>; if new primitive parameter <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfomitcharset </span>is set to
1, the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">/CharSet </span>string omitted from the PDF output, since it cannot feasibly be guaranteed
correct, as required by PDF/A-2 and PDF/A-3.
-</p><!--l. 3852--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: New primitives for cross-engine support: <span
+</p><!--l. 3849--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: New primitives for cross-engine support: <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\expanded</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\creationdate</span>,
<span
@@ -6883,7 +6881,7 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">\normaldeviate</span>,
class="ec-lmtt-12">\uniformdeviate</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\randomseed</span>; extend <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\Ucharcat </span>to produce active characters.
-</p><!--l. 3864--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 3861--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlmgr</span>: Support <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">curl </span>as a download program; use <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">lz4 </span>and gzip before <span
@@ -6892,16 +6890,16 @@ if available; prefer system-provided binaries over binaries provided with TeX Li
compressor and download programs, unless the environment variable <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXLIVE_PREFER_OWN </span>is
set.
-</p><!--l. 3870--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 3867--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">install-tl</span>: New option <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">-gui </span>(with no argument) is the default on Windows and Macs,
and invokes a new Tcl/TK GUI (see sections <a
href="#x1-50001.3">1.3<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:basic --></a> and <a
href="#x1-210003.1.6">3.1.6<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:graphical-inst --></a>).
-</p><!--l. 3874--><p class="indent" > Utilities: </p>
+</p><!--l. 3871--><p class="indent" > Utilities: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3876--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 3873--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">cwebbin </span>(<a
href="https://ctan.org/pkg/cwebbin" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://ctan.org/pkg/cwebbin</span></a>) is now the CWEB implementation
@@ -6910,29 +6908,29 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">ctwill</span>
program to make mini-indexes.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3880--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 3877--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">chkdvifont</span>: report font information from DVI files, also from tfm/ofm, vf, gf, pk.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3883--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 3880--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">dvispc</span>: make a DVI file page-independent with respect to specials.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 3886--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: <span
+<!--l. 3883--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">x86_64-darwin </span>now supports 10.12 and higher (Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave);
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">x86_64-darwinlegacy </span>still supports 10.6 and newer. The spell checker Excalibur is no longer
included, since it requires 32-bit support.
-</p><!--l. 3891--><p class="indent" > Platforms: removed <span
+</p><!--l. 3888--><p class="indent" > Platforms: removed <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">sparc-solaris</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3894--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 3891--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.17 </span> <a
id="x1-890009.1.17"></a>2020</h5>
-<!--l. 3896--><p class="noindent" >General: </p>
+<!--l. 3893--><p class="noindent" >General: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3897--><p class="noindent" >The <span
+ <!--l. 3894--><p class="noindent" >The <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\input </span>primitive in all TeX engines, including <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tex</span>, now also accepts a
group-delimited filename argument, as a system-dependent extension. The usage
@@ -6947,7 +6945,7 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">\input </span>command, as that is a macro redefinition of th
class="ec-lmtt-12">\input </span>primitive.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3907--><p class="noindent" >New option <span
+ <!--l. 3904--><p class="noindent" >New option <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">--cnf-line </span>for <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">kpsewhich</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tex</span>, <span
@@ -6955,7 +6953,7 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">mf</span>, and all other engines, to support
arbitrary configuration settings on the command line.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3911--><p class="noindent" >The addition of various primitives to various engines in this and previous years
+ <!--l. 3908--><p class="noindent" >The addition of various primitives to various engines in this and previous years
is intended to result in a common set of functionality available across all engines
(<span
class="ec-lmro-12">LaTeX</span><span
@@ -6964,7 +6962,7 @@ href="https://latex-project.org/news" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://latex-project.org/news</span></a>).
</p>
</li></ul>
-<!--l. 3918--><p class="indent" > epTeX, eupTeX: Several new primitives, mostly for cross-engine support: <span
+<!--l. 3915--><p class="indent" > epTeX, eupTeX: Several new primitives, mostly for cross-engine support: <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\Uchar</span>,
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\Ucharcat</span>, <span
@@ -6974,7 +6972,7 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">\fontchar??</span> and
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\iffontchar</span>. For eupTeX only: <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\currentcjktoken</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3923--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: Integration with HarfBuzz library, available as new engines <span
+</p><!--l. 3920--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: Integration with HarfBuzz library, available as new engines <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">luahbtex</span>
(used for <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">lualatex</span>) and <span
@@ -6982,24 +6980,24 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">luajithbtex</span>. New primitives: <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\eTeXgluestretchorder</span>,
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\eTeXglueshrinkorder</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3927--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: New primitive <span
+</p><!--l. 3924--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: New primitive <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfmajorversion</span>; this merely changes the version number in the
PDF output; it has no effect on any PDF content. <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfximage </span>and similar now search for
image files in the same way as <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\openin</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3932--><p class="indent" > pTeX: New primitives <span
+</p><!--l. 3929--><p class="indent" > pTeX: New primitives <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\ifjfont</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\iftfont</span>. Also in epTeX, upTeX, eupTeX.
-</p><!--l. 3935--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: Fixes for <span
+</p><!--l. 3932--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: Fixes for <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\Umathchardef</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\XeTeXinterchartoks</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfsavepos</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3937--><p class="indent" > Dvips: Output encodings for bitmap fonts, for better copy/paste capabilities (
+</p><!--l. 3934--><p class="indent" > Dvips: Output encodings for bitmap fonts, for better copy/paste capabilities (
<a
href="https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb40-2/tb125rokicki-type3search.pdf" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb40-2/tb125rokicki-type3search.pdf</span></a>).
-</p><!--l. 3941--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: MacTeX and <span
+</p><!--l. 3938--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: MacTeX and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">x86_64-darwin </span>now require 10.13 or higher (High Sierra, Mojave,
and Catalina); <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">x86_64-darwinlegacy </span>supports 10.6 and newer. MacTeX is notarized and
@@ -7009,23 +7007,23 @@ command line programs have hardened runtimes, as now required by Apple for insta
packages. BibDesk and TeX Live Utility are not in MacTeX because they are not notarized,
but a <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">README </span>file lists urls where they can be obtained.
-</p><!--l. 3949--><p class="indent" > <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">x86_64-darwinlegacy</code></span>: drop X11 support, including <span
+</p><!--l. 3946--><p class="indent" > <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">x86_64-darwinlegacy</code></span>: drop X11 support, including <span
class="ec-lmss-12">xdvi</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3951--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 3948--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlmgr </span>and infrastructure: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3952--><p class="noindent" >Automatically retry (once) packages that fail to download.
+ <!--l. 3949--><p class="noindent" >Automatically retry (once) packages that fail to download.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3953--><p class="noindent" >New option <span
+ <!--l. 3950--><p class="noindent" >New option <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlmgr check texmfdbs</span>, to check consistency of <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">ls-R </span>files and
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">!!</span> specifications for each tree.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3956--><p class="noindent" >Use versioned filenames for the package containers, as in:<br
+ <!--l. 3953--><p class="noindent" >Use versioned filenames for the package containers, as in:<br
class="newline" /><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlnet/archive/</span><span
class="ec-lmtto-10x-x-120">pkgname</span><span
@@ -7033,17 +7031,17 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">.rNNN.tar.xz</span>. This should be invisible to users, but i
notable change in distribution.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3959--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 3956--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">catalogue-date </span>information no longer propagated from the TeX Catalogue, since
it was often unrelated to package updates.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 3964--><p class="noindent" >
+<!--l. 3961--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.18 </span> <a
id="x1-900009.1.18"></a>2021</h5>
-<!--l. 3966--><p class="noindent" >General: </p>
+<!--l. 3963--><p class="noindent" >General: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3967--><p class="noindent" >Donald Knuth’s changes for his 2021 tuneup of TeX and Metafont are incorporated
+ <!--l. 3964--><p class="noindent" >Donald Knuth’s changes for his 2021 tuneup of TeX and Metafont are incorporated
(<a
href="https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb42-1/tb130knuth-tuneup21.pdf" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb42-1/tb130knuth-tuneup21.pdf</span></a>). They are
@@ -7053,13 +7051,13 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">knuth-local </span>packages. As
expected, the fixes are for obscure cases and do not affect any behavior in practice.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3974--><p class="noindent" >Except in original TeX: if <span
+ <!--l. 3971--><p class="noindent" >Except in original TeX: if <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\tracinglostchars </span>is set to 3 or more, missing
characters will result in an error, not just a message in the log file, and the missing
character code will be shown in hex.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3978--><p class="noindent" >Except in original TeX: a new integer parameter <span
+ <!--l. 3975--><p class="noindent" >Except in original TeX: a new integer parameter <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\tracingstacklevels</span>, if
positive, and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\tracingmacros </span>is also positive, causes a prefix indicating the macro
@@ -7068,67 +7066,67 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">\tracingmacros </span>is also positive, causes a prefix indi
class="lmsy-10x-x-120">≥ </span>the parameter value.
</p>
</li></ul>
-<!--l. 3986--><p class="indent" > Aleph: The Aleph-based LaTeX format, named <span
+<!--l. 3983--><p class="indent" > Aleph: The Aleph-based LaTeX format, named <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">lamed</span>, has been removed. The <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">aleph</span>
binary itself is still included and supported.
-</p><!--l. 3989--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: </p>
+</p><!--l. 3986--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3990--><p class="noindent" >Lua 5.3.6.
+ <!--l. 3987--><p class="noindent" >Lua 5.3.6.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3991--><p class="noindent" >Callback for nesting level used in <span
+ <!--l. 3988--><p class="noindent" >Callback for nesting level used in <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\tracingmacros</span>, as generalized variant of the
new <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\tracingstacklevels</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3993--><p class="noindent" >Mark math glyphs as protected to prevent processing as text.
+ <!--l. 3990--><p class="noindent" >Mark math glyphs as protected to prevent processing as text.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3994--><p class="noindent" >Removed width/ic compensation for traditional math code path.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 3997--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: </p>
+ <!--l. 3991--><p class="noindent" >Removed width/ic compensation for traditional math code path.</p></li></ul>
+<!--l. 3994--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3998--><p class="noindent" ><span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH</code></span> environment variable support for reproducible output.
+ <!--l. 3995--><p class="noindent" ><span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH</code></span> environment variable support for reproducible output.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3999--><p class="noindent" >Avoid wrong final <span
+ <!--l. 3996--><p class="noindent" >Avoid wrong final <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">% </span>in <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">mpto</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4000--><p class="noindent" >Document <span
+ <!--l. 3997--><p class="noindent" >Document <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">-T </span>option, other fixes to manual.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4001--><p class="noindent" >Value of <span
+ <!--l. 3998--><p class="noindent" >Value of <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">epsilon </span>changed in binary and decimal modes, so that the function
<span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">mp_solve_rising_cubic</code></span> works as expected.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4005--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: </p>
+<!--l. 4002--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4006--><p class="noindent" >New primitives <span
+ <!--l. 4003--><p class="noindent" >New primitives <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfrunninglinkoff </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfrunninglinkon</span>; e.g., for disabling
generation of links in headers and footers.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4009--><p class="noindent" >Warn instead of aborting when “<span
+ <!--l. 4006--><p class="noindent" >Warn instead of aborting when “<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfendlink </span>ended up in different nesting level
than <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfstartlink</span>”.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4011--><p class="noindent" >Dump <span
+ <!--l. 4008--><p class="noindent" >Dump <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfglyphtounicode </span>assignments in <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">fmt </span>file.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4012--><p class="noindent" >Source: <span
+ <!--l. 4009--><p class="noindent" >Source: <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">poppler </span>support removed, as it was too hard to keep in sync with upstream.
In native TL, pdfTeX has always used <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">libs/xpdf</span>, which is cut-down and adapted
@@ -7136,128 +7134,128 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">libs/xpdf</span>, which is cut-down and adapted
class="ec-lmtt-12">xpdf</span>.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4017--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: Fixes for math kerning.
-</p><!--l. 4019--><p class="indent" > Dvipdfmx: </p>
+<!--l. 4014--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: Fixes for math kerning.
+</p><!--l. 4016--><p class="indent" > Dvipdfmx: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4020--><p class="noindent" >Ghostscript is now invoked safely by default; to override (thereby assuming all input
+ <!--l. 4017--><p class="noindent" >Ghostscript is now invoked safely by default; to override (thereby assuming all input
files are trusted), use <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">-i dvipdfmx-unsafe.cfg</code></span>. To use PSTricks with XeTeX,
this is required, as in:<br
class="newline" /><span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">xetex -output-driver=&#x0022;xdvipdfmx -i dvipdfmx-unsafe.cfg -q -E&#x0022; ...</code></span>
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4025--><p class="noindent" >If an image file is not found, exit with bad status.
+ <!--l. 4022--><p class="noindent" >If an image file is not found, exit with bad status.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4026--><p class="noindent" >Extended special syntax for color support.
+ <!--l. 4023--><p class="noindent" >Extended special syntax for color support.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4027--><p class="noindent" >Specials for manipulating <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">ExtGState</code></span>.
+ <!--l. 4024--><p class="noindent" >Specials for manipulating <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">ExtGState</code></span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4028--><p class="noindent" >Compatibility specials <span
+ <!--l. 4025--><p class="noindent" >Compatibility specials <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">pdfcolorstack </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">pdffontattr</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4029--><p class="noindent" >Experimental support for <span
+ <!--l. 4026--><p class="noindent" >Experimental support for <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">dviluatex</span>’s extended <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">fnt_def</code></span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4030--><p class="noindent" >Support new feature of virtual font to fallback Japanese font definition.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4033--><p class="indent" > Dvips: </p>
+ <!--l. 4027--><p class="noindent" >Support new feature of virtual font to fallback Japanese font definition.</p></li></ul>
+<!--l. 4030--><p class="indent" > Dvips: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4034--><p class="noindent" >Default PostScript document title is now the basename of the input file, and can
+ <!--l. 4031--><p class="noindent" >Default PostScript document title is now the basename of the input file, and can
be overridden with the new option <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">-title</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4036--><p class="noindent" >If an <span
+ <!--l. 4033--><p class="noindent" >If an <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">.eps </span>or other image file is not found, exit with bad status.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4038--><p class="noindent" >Support new feature of virtual font to fallback Japanese font definition.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4041--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: MacTeX and its new binary folder <span
+ <!--l. 4035--><p class="noindent" >Support new feature of virtual font to fallback Japanese font definition.</p></li></ul>
+<!--l. 4038--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: MacTeX and its new binary folder <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">universal-darwin </span>now require macOS 10.14
or higher (Mojave, Catalina, and Big Sur); the <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">x86_64-darwin</code></span> binary folder is no longer
present. The <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">x86_64-darwinlegacy</code></span> binary folder, available only with the Unix <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">install-tl</span>,
supports 10.6 and newer.
-</p><!--l. 4047--><p class="indent" > This is an important year for the Macintosh because Apple introduced ARM machines in
+</p><!--l. 4044--><p class="indent" > This is an important year for the Macintosh because Apple introduced ARM machines in
November and will sell and support both ARM and Intel machines for many years. All
programs in <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">universal-darwin </span>have executable code for both ARM and Intel. Both binaries
are compiled from the same source code.
-</p><!--l. 4053--><p class="indent" > The additional programs Ghostscript, LaTeXiT, TeX Live Utility, and TeXShop are all
+</p><!--l. 4050--><p class="indent" > The additional programs Ghostscript, LaTeXiT, TeX Live Utility, and TeXShop are all
universal and are signed with a hardened runtime, so all are included in MacTeX this
year.
-</p><!--l. 4057--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 4054--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlmgr </span>and infrastructure: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4058--><p class="noindent" >keep only one backup of the main repository’s <span
+ <!--l. 4055--><p class="noindent" >keep only one backup of the main repository’s <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texlive.tlpdb</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4059--><p class="noindent" >even more portability across systems and Perl versions.
+ <!--l. 4056--><p class="noindent" >even more portability across systems and Perl versions.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4060--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 4057--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlmgr info </span>reports new <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">lcat-* </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">rcat-* </span>fields for local vs. remote Catalogue
data.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4062--><p class="noindent" >full logging of subcommands moved to a new log file:<br
+ <!--l. 4059--><p class="noindent" >full logging of subcommands moved to a new log file:<br
class="newline" /><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf-var/web2c/tlmgr-commands.log</span>.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4067--><p class="noindent" >
+<!--l. 4064--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.19 </span> <a
id="x1-910009.1.19"></a>2022</h5>
-<!--l. 4069--><p class="noindent" >General: </p>
+<!--l. 4066--><p class="noindent" >General: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4070--><p class="noindent" >New engine <span
+ <!--l. 4067--><p class="noindent" >New engine <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">hitex</span>, which outputs its own HINT format, designed especially for
reading technical documents on mobile devices. HINT viewers for GNU/Linux,
Windows, and Android are available separately from TeX Live.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4075--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 4072--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tangle</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">weave</span>: support optional third argument to specify output file.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4078--><p class="noindent" >Knuth’s program <span
+ <!--l. 4075--><p class="noindent" >Knuth’s program <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">twill </span>for making mini-indexes for original <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">WEB </span>programs now
included.
</p>
</li></ul>
-<!--l. 4083--><p class="indent" > Cross-engine extensions (except in original TeX, Aleph, and hiTeX): </p>
+<!--l. 4080--><p class="indent" > Cross-engine extensions (except in original TeX, Aleph, and hiTeX): </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4085--><p class="noindent" >New primitive <span
+ <!--l. 4082--><p class="noindent" >New primitive <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\showstream </span>to redirect <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\show </span>output to a file.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4086--><p class="noindent" >New primitives <span
+ <!--l. 4083--><p class="noindent" >New primitives <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\partokenname </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\partokencontext </span>allow overriding the name
of the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\par </span>token emitted at blank lines, the end of vboxes, etc.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4091--><p class="indent" > epTeX, eupTeX: </p>
+<!--l. 4088--><p class="indent" > epTeX, eupTeX: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4092--><p class="noindent" >New
+ <!--l. 4089--><p class="noindent" >New
primitives:
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\lastnodefont</span>,
@@ -7269,7 +7267,7 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">\suppressoutererror</span>,
class="ec-lmtt-12">\suppressmathparerror</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4094--><p class="noindent" >pdfTeX
+ <!--l. 4091--><p class="noindent" >pdfTeX
extension
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\vadjust</span>
@@ -7277,42 +7275,42 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">\vadjust</span>
class="ec-lmtt-12">pre</span>
now
available.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4097--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: </p>
+<!--l. 4094--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4098--><p class="noindent" >Support structured destinations from PDF 2.0.
+ <!--l. 4095--><p class="noindent" >Support structured destinations from PDF 2.0.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4099--><p class="noindent" >PNG /Smask for PDF 2.0.
+ <!--l. 4096--><p class="noindent" >PNG /Smask for PDF 2.0.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4100--><p class="noindent" >Variable font interface for <span
+ <!--l. 4097--><p class="noindent" >Variable font interface for <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">luahbtex</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4101--><p class="noindent" >Different radical style defaults in mathdefaultsmode.
+ <!--l. 4098--><p class="noindent" >Different radical style defaults in mathdefaultsmode.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4102--><p class="noindent" >Optionally block selected discretionary creation.
+ <!--l. 4099--><p class="noindent" >Optionally block selected discretionary creation.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4103--><p class="noindent" >Improvements for TrueType fonts implementation.
+ <!--l. 4100--><p class="noindent" >Improvements for TrueType fonts implementation.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4104--><p class="noindent" >More efficient <span
+ <!--l. 4101--><p class="noindent" >More efficient <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\fontdimen </span>allocation.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4105--><p class="noindent" >Ignore paragraphs with only a local <span
+ <!--l. 4102--><p class="noindent" >Ignore paragraphs with only a local <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">par </span>node followed by direction synchronization
nodes.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4109--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: Bug fix for infinite macro expansion.
-</p><!--l. 4111--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: </p>
+<!--l. 4106--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: Bug fix for infinite macro expansion.
+</p><!--l. 4108--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4112--><p class="noindent" >Support
+ <!--l. 4109--><p class="noindent" >Support
structured
destinations
from
@@ -7320,7 +7318,7 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">par </span>node followed by direction synchronization
2.0.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4113--><p class="noindent" >For
+ <!--l. 4110--><p class="noindent" >For
letterspaced
fonts,
use
@@ -7331,7 +7329,7 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">\fontdimen</span>6
specified.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4114--><p class="noindent" >Always
+ <!--l. 4111--><p class="noindent" >Always
start
a
warning
@@ -7343,7 +7341,7 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">\fontdimen</span>6
line.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4115--><p class="noindent" >For
+ <!--l. 4112--><p class="noindent" >For
characters
with
autokern
@@ -7364,83 +7362,83 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfprependkern</span>),
and
explicit
hyphens.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4120--><p class="indent" > pTeX et al.: </p>
+<!--l. 4117--><p class="indent" > pTeX et al.: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4121--><p class="noindent" >Major update of pTeX to 4.0.0 to better support current LaTeX.
+ <!--l. 4118--><p class="noindent" >Major update of pTeX to 4.0.0 to better support current LaTeX.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4122--><p class="noindent" >New primitives <span
+ <!--l. 4119--><p class="noindent" >New primitives <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\ptexlineendmode </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\toucs</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4123--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 4120--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\ucs </span>(formerly available in uptex, euptex) now available also in pTeX and epTeX.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4125--><p class="noindent" >Distinguish eight-bit characters
+ <!--l. 4122--><p class="noindent" >Distinguish eight-bit characters
and Japanese characters, as discussed in a TUGboat article by Hironori Kitagawa
(<a
href="https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb41-3/tb129kitagawa-char.pdf" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb41-3/tb129kitagawa-char.pdf</span></a>).</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4130--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: New wrapper scripts <span
+<!--l. 4127--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: New wrapper scripts <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">xetex-unsafe </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">xelatex-unsafe </span>for simpler invocation of
documents requiring both XeTeX and PSTricks transparency operators, which is inherently
unsafe (until and unless reimplementation in Ghostscript happens). For safety, use
Lua(L<span
class="ec-lmr-8">A</span>)TeX.
-</p><!--l. 4136--><p class="indent" > Dvipdfmx: </p>
+</p><!--l. 4133--><p class="indent" > Dvipdfmx: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4137--><p class="noindent" >Support for PSTricks without requiring <span
+ <!--l. 4134--><p class="noindent" >Support for PSTricks without requiring <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">-dNOSAFER</span>, except for transparency.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4139--><p class="noindent" >The <span
+ <!--l. 4136--><p class="noindent" >The <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">-r </span>option to set bitmap font resolution works again.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4142--><p class="indent" > Dvips: By default, do not attempt automatic media adjustment for rotated paper sizes; the
+<!--l. 4139--><p class="indent" > Dvips: By default, do not attempt automatic media adjustment for rotated paper sizes; the
new option <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">–landscaperotate </span>re-enables.
-</p><!--l. 4145--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 4142--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">upmendex</span>: Experimental support for Arabic and Hebrew scripts; improved character
classification and language support.
-</p><!--l. 4148--><p class="indent" > Kpathsea: First path returned from <span
+</p><!--l. 4145--><p class="indent" > Kpathsea: First path returned from <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">kpsewhich -all </span>is now the same as a regular (non-all)
search.
-</p><!--l. 4151--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 4148--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlmgr </span>and infrastructure: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4152--><p class="noindent" >use https for <span
+ <!--l. 4149--><p class="noindent" >use https for <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">mirror.ctan.org </span>by default.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4153--><p class="noindent" >use <span
+ <!--l. 4150--><p class="noindent" >use <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFROOT </span>instead of <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">SELFAUTOPARENT </span>for easier relocating.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4155--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 4152--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">install-tl</span>: if download or installation fails for a given package, automatically
continue and later retry (once).</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4159--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: MacTeX and its binary folder <span
+<!--l. 4156--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: MacTeX and its binary folder <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">universal-darwin </span>require macOS 10.14 or
higher (Mojave, Catalina, Big Sur, Monterey). The <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">x86_64-darwinlegacy</code></span> binary
folder, available only with the Unix <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">install-tl</span>, supports 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and
newer.
-</p><!--l. 4164--><p class="indent" > Platforms: No changes to platform support for this year (2022). However, for next year’s
+</p><!--l. 4161--><p class="indent" > Platforms: No changes to platform support for this year (2022). However, for next year’s
release (2023), we are planning to switch the Windows binaries from 32-bit to 64-bit.
Unfortunately we cannot feasibly support both simultaneously.
-</p><!--l. 4170--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 4167--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.20 </span> <a
id="x1-920009.1.20"></a>2023</h5>
-<!--l. 4172--><p class="noindent" >Windows: As announced previously, TeX Live now contains 64-bit Windows binaries instead of
+<!--l. 4169--><p class="noindent" >Windows: As announced previously, TeX Live now contains 64-bit Windows binaries instead of
32-bit. The new directory name is <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">bin/windows </span>(it did not seem right to put 64-bit
binaries into a directory named with “32”). We know this will cause extra work for
@@ -7452,7 +7450,7 @@ therefore also need a 32-bit TeX Live. See the separate TeX Live Windows web pag
<a
href="https://tug.org/texlive/windows.html" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/texlive/windows.html</span></a>).
-</p><!--l. 4185--><p class="indent" >
+</p><!--l. 4182--><p class="indent" >
Cross-engine
extensions
(except
@@ -7486,37 +7484,37 @@ as
with
a
non-<span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">\immediate\write</code></span>.
-</p><!--l. 4191--><p class="noindent" >epTeX, eupTeX:</p>
+</p><!--l. 4188--><p class="noindent" >epTeX, eupTeX:</p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4192--><p class="noindent" >“Raw” (u)ptex no longer built; (u)ptex now runs in e(u)ptex’s compatibility mode.
+ <!--l. 4189--><p class="noindent" >“Raw” (u)ptex no longer built; (u)ptex now runs in e(u)ptex’s compatibility mode.
Same for pTeX tools, listed below.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4194--><p class="noindent" >New primitives: <span
+ <!--l. 4191--><p class="noindent" >New primitives: <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\tojis</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\ptextracingfonts</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\ptexfontname</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4196--><p class="noindent" >For <span
+ <!--l. 4193--><p class="noindent" >For <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\font</span>, new syntax for JIS/UCS is supported.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4199--><p class="noindent" >LuaTeX: </p>
+<!--l. 4196--><p class="noindent" >LuaTeX: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4200--><p class="noindent" >new primitive <span
+ <!--l. 4197--><p class="noindent" >new primitive <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\variablefam </span>to allow math characters to keep their class while
still letting the family adapt.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4202--><p class="noindent" >improved r2l annotation areas
+ <!--l. 4199--><p class="noindent" >improved r2l annotation areas
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4203--><p class="noindent" >cross-engine “late <span
+ <!--l. 4200--><p class="noindent" >cross-engine “late <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\special</span>” described above.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4204--><p class="noindent" >in LuaTeX 1.17.0, released in May 2023: the socket library is now disabled by
+ <!--l. 4201--><p class="noindent" >in LuaTeX 1.17.0, released in May 2023: the socket library is now disabled by
default; a new command line option <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">–socket </span>enables it, as well as <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">–shell-escape</span>
@@ -7527,23 +7525,23 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">os.socketsleep </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">os.socketgettime </span>are also always
available. Finally, some obscure ways to work around various security features were
fixed.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4214--><p class="noindent" >MetaPost: Bug fixes. <span
+<!--l. 4211--><p class="noindent" >MetaPost: Bug fixes. <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">svg-&#x003E;dx </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">svg-&#x003E;dy </span>are now <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">double</span>, for better precision;
<span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">mp_begin_iteration</code></span> updated; memory leak in <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">mplib </span>fixed.
-</p><!--l. 4218--><p class="noindent" >pdfTeX: </p>
+</p><!--l. 4215--><p class="noindent" >pdfTeX: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4219--><p class="noindent" >new primitive <span
+ <!--l. 4216--><p class="noindent" >new primitive <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfomitinfodict </span>to omit <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">/Info </span>dictionary completely.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4221--><p class="noindent" >new primitive <span
+ <!--l. 4218--><p class="noindent" >new primitive <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfomitprocset </span>to control omitting <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">/ProcSet </span>array: <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">/ProcSet </span>is
@@ -7551,7 +7549,7 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">/ProcSet </span>is
generating PDF 1.x output.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4225--><p class="noindent" >with <span
+ <!--l. 4222--><p class="noindent" >with <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfinterwordspaceon</span>, if the current font’s encoding has a <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">/space </span>character
at slot 32, it is used; otherwise, the <span
@@ -7561,35 +7559,35 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">pdftexspace </span>is used. That default font can be overridd
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfspacefont</span>. This same new procedure is used for <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdffakespace</span>.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4233--><p class="noindent" >pTeX et al.: </p>
+<!--l. 4230--><p class="noindent" >pTeX et al.: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4234--><p class="noindent" >As mentioned above, <span
+ <!--l. 4231--><p class="noindent" >As mentioned above, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">ptex </span>now runs <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">eptex </span>in compatibility mode instead of being
built separately.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4237--><p class="noindent" >pTeX tools (pbibtex, pdvitype, ppltotf, ptftopl) merged into corresponding upTeX
+ <!--l. 4234--><p class="noindent" >pTeX tools (pbibtex, pdvitype, ppltotf, ptftopl) merged into corresponding upTeX
versions, running in compatibility mode.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4241--><p class="noindent" >XeTeX: fixed <span
+<!--l. 4238--><p class="noindent" >XeTeX: fixed <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\topskip </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\splittopskip </span>computation when <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\XeTeXupwardsmode </span>is active;
the cross-engine “late <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\special</span>” described above.
-</p><!--l. 4245--><p class="noindent" >Dvipdfmx: new option <span
+</p><!--l. 4242--><p class="noindent" >Dvipdfmx: new option <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">–pdfm-str-utf8 </span>to make pdfmark and/or bookmark.
-</p><!--l. 4247--><p class="noindent" >BibTeXu: </p>
+</p><!--l. 4244--><p class="noindent" >BibTeXu: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4248--><p class="noindent" >This BibTeX variant is mostly upward-compatible with BibTeX, with much better
+ <!--l. 4245--><p class="noindent" >This BibTeX variant is mostly upward-compatible with BibTeX, with much better
(Unicode-based) multilingual support. It’s been in TeX Live for some years.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4251--><p class="noindent" >This year, more features to support CJK languages have been added, some
+ <!--l. 4248--><p class="noindent" >This year, more features to support CJK languages have been added, some
extended from the Japanese (u)pbibtex and other programs.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4255--><p class="noindent" >Kpathsea: Support guessing input file encodings for Unix-ish platforms, as on Windows;
+<!--l. 4252--><p class="noindent" >Kpathsea: Support guessing input file encodings for Unix-ish platforms, as on Windows;
enabled for (<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">e</span>)<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">p</span>(<span
@@ -7597,23 +7595,23 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">la</span>)<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tex</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">pbibtex</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">mendex</span>.
-</p><!--l. 4260--><p class="noindent" ><span
+</p><!--l. 4257--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlmgr </span>and infrastructure: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4261--><p class="noindent" >default to text interface on macOS.
+ <!--l. 4258--><p class="noindent" >default to text interface on macOS.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4262--><p class="noindent" >install core packages first, retry other packages once.
+ <!--l. 4259--><p class="noindent" >install core packages first, retry other packages once.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4263--><p class="noindent" >simplistic checks are done for enough disk space.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4266--><p class="noindent" >MacTeX: </p>
+ <!--l. 4260--><p class="noindent" >simplistic checks are done for enough disk space.</p></li></ul>
+<!--l. 4263--><p class="noindent" >MacTeX: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4267--><p class="noindent" >MacTeX and its binary folder <span
+ <!--l. 4264--><p class="noindent" >MacTeX and its binary folder <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">universal-darwin </span>require macOS 10.14 or higher
(Mojave, Catalina, Big Sur, Monterey, Ventura). The <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">x86_64-darwinlegacy</span>
@@ -7622,7 +7620,7 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">install-tl</span>, supports 10.6
(Snow Leopard) and later.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4273--><p class="noindent" >The GUI package in MacTeX now contains <span
+ <!--l. 4270--><p class="noindent" >The GUI package in MacTeX now contains <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">hintview</span>, a macOS viewer for HINT
documents (created by the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">hitex </span>and <span
@@ -7637,33 +7635,33 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12"> ME </span>for new users and a page about <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">hintview</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4280--><p class="noindent" >The <span
+ <!--l. 4277--><p class="noindent" >The <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">Extras </span>folder of additional TeX software on the DVD has been replaced with
a document containing links to download sites.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4284--><p class="noindent" >Platforms: </p>
+<!--l. 4281--><p class="noindent" >Platforms: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4285--><p class="noindent" >As mentioned above, the new <span
+ <!--l. 4282--><p class="noindent" >As mentioned above, the new <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">windows </span>binary directory contains 64-bit Windows
binaries, and
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4287--><p class="noindent" >the <span
+ <!--l. 4284--><p class="noindent" >the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">bin/win32 </span>binary directory is gone, since we cannot support 32-bit and 64-bit
Windows simultaneously.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4289--><p class="noindent" >The <span
+ <!--l. 4286--><p class="noindent" >The <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">i386-cygwin </span>binary directory is gone, since Cygwin no longer supports i386.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4294--><p class="indent" > <a id="news"></a>
+<!--l. 4291--><p class="indent" > <a id="news"></a>
</p>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.2 </span> <a
id="x1-930009.2"></a>Present: 2024</h4>
-<!--l. 4298--><p class="noindent" >LuaTeX: Lua-level checks for writing to files now similar to the TeX-level checks.
-</p><!--l. 4301--><p class="noindent" >MetaPost: </p>
+<!--l. 4295--><p class="noindent" >LuaTeX: Lua-level checks for writing to files now similar to the TeX-level checks.
+</p><!--l. 4298--><p class="noindent" >MetaPost: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4302--><p class="noindent" >MPFI
+ <!--l. 4299--><p class="noindent" >MPFI
library
now
included
@@ -7676,44 +7674,44 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">i386-cygwin </span>binary directory is gone, since Cygwin no
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">–numbersystem=interval</span>.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4306--><p class="noindent" >pdfTeX: </p>
+<!--l. 4303--><p class="noindent" >pdfTeX: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4307--><p class="noindent" >More reliable text extraction on BigEndian systems.
+ <!--l. 4304--><p class="noindent" >More reliable text extraction on BigEndian systems.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4308--><p class="noindent" >More checks against corrupt pfb, fmt, pdf files.
+ <!--l. 4305--><p class="noindent" >More checks against corrupt pfb, fmt, pdf files.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4309--><p class="noindent" >Avoid writing a corrupt pdf given unusual pdf inclusions.
+ <!--l. 4306--><p class="noindent" >Avoid writing a corrupt pdf given unusual pdf inclusions.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4310--><p class="noindent" >Manual converted to LaTeX and thoroughly reviewed, though substantive updates
+ <!--l. 4307--><p class="noindent" >Manual converted to LaTeX and thoroughly reviewed, though substantive updates
are minimal.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4314--><p class="noindent" >epTeX, eupTeX: </p>
+<!--l. 4311--><p class="noindent" >epTeX, eupTeX: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4315--><p class="noindent" >New simple encoding conversion utility <span
+ <!--l. 4312--><p class="noindent" >New simple encoding conversion utility <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">ptekf</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4316--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 4313--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">eptex </span>no longer built separately; it runs in <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">euptex</span>’s legacy-encoding mode.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4320--><p class="noindent" >Dvipdfmx: </p>
+<!--l. 4317--><p class="noindent" >Dvipdfmx: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4321--><p class="noindent" >Calculate time zone offset in the same way as pdfTeX.
+ <!--l. 4318--><p class="noindent" >Calculate time zone offset in the same way as pdfTeX.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4322--><p class="noindent" >Handle variation selectors to cope with the new Adobe-Japan1-UCS2 CMap.
+ <!--l. 4319--><p class="noindent" >Handle variation selectors to cope with the new Adobe-Japan1-UCS2 CMap.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4323--><p class="noindent" >Fallback multibyte characters in virtual fonts to OFM fonts for (u)pTeX.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4326--><p class="noindent" >Kpathsea: </p>
+ <!--l. 4320--><p class="noindent" >Fallback multibyte characters in virtual fonts to OFM fonts for (u)pTeX.</p></li></ul>
+<!--l. 4323--><p class="noindent" >Kpathsea: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4327--><p class="noindent" >Support an extended check for safe filenames which also allows writing under
+ <!--l. 4324--><p class="noindent" >Support an extended check for safe filenames which also allows writing under
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMF</span>[<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">SYS</span>]<span
@@ -7723,67 +7721,67 @@ class="ec-lmtt-12">kpsewhich</span>
options.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4330--><p class="noindent" >Support a new variable <span
+ <!--l. 4327--><p class="noindent" >Support a new variable <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMF_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY </span>(alongside the traditional
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFOUTPUT</span>), so that subprograms can have access to an <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">–output-directory</span>
setting in an engine invocation.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4335--><p class="noindent" >CWEB: </p>
+<!--l. 4332--><p class="noindent" >CWEB: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4336--><p class="noindent" >Support LuaTeX as backend TeX engine.
+ <!--l. 4333--><p class="noindent" >Support LuaTeX as backend TeX engine.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4337--><p class="noindent" >Fix buffer overflow on lines with no breakpoint.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4340--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 4334--><p class="noindent" >Fix buffer overflow on lines with no breakpoint.</p></li></ul>
+<!--l. 4337--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlmgr</span>: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4341--><p class="noindent" >New action <span
+ <!--l. 4338--><p class="noindent" >New action <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">bug </span>to help find bug-reporting information.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4342--><p class="noindent" >Use our own root certificate bundle on all platforms, to support LWP more widely,
+ <!--l. 4339--><p class="noindent" >Use our own root certificate bundle on all platforms, to support LWP more widely,
notably on macOS.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4344--><p class="noindent" >Detect a remote repository older than the local installation (i.e., a stale mirror),
+ <!--l. 4341--><p class="noindent" >Detect a remote repository older than the local installation (i.e., a stale mirror),
and don’t update, to avoid incorrect package removals.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4346--><p class="noindent" >Support ConTeXt paper size setting.
+ <!--l. 4343--><p class="noindent" >Support ConTeXt paper size setting.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4347--><p class="noindent" >Prune backups of tlpdb files for mirrored repositories (main and tlcontrib).</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4351--><p class="noindent" >MacTeX: now contains the latest Ghostscript 10.02.1, updates of all four GUI programs, along
+ <!--l. 4344--><p class="noindent" >Prune backups of tlpdb files for mirrored repositories (main and tlcontrib).</p></li></ul>
+<!--l. 4348--><p class="noindent" >MacTeX: now contains the latest Ghostscript 10.02.1, updates of all four GUI programs, along
with (as always) all new TL changes. The binaries still support macOS 10.14 (Mojave, 2018)
and later. (As usual, earlier Mac versions are supported by the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">x86_64-darwinlegacy</span>
binaries, which are part of TL, but not MacTeX.)
-</p><!--l. 4358--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 4355--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.3 </span> <a
id="x1-940009.3"></a>Future</h4>
-<!--l. 4360--><p class="noindent" >We intend to continue to release new versions of TeX Live, and would like to provide more
+<!--l. 4357--><p class="noindent" >We intend to continue to release new versions of TeX Live, and would like to provide more
documentation, more programs, an ever-improved and better-checked tree of macros and fonts,
and anything else TeX. This work is all done by volunteers in their spare time, and there is
always more to do. Please see <a
href="https://tug.org/texlive/contribute.html" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/texlive/contribute.html</span></a>.
-</p><!--l. 4366--><p class="indent" > Please send corrections, suggestions, and offers of help to:
+</p><!--l. 4363--><p class="indent" > Please send corrections, suggestions, and offers of help to:
</p><blockquote class="quote">
- <!--l. 4368--><p class="noindent" > <a
+ <!--l. 4365--><p class="noindent" > <a
href="mailto:tex-live@tug.org" ><span class="path"><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tex-live@tug.org</span></span></a> <span
class="ec-lmr-10x-x-109">(you need not subscribe in order to post)</span><br
class="newline" /><a
href="https://tug.org/texlive" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/texlive</span></a></p></blockquote>
-<!--l. 4373--><p class="noindent" ><span
+<!--l. 4370--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmro-12">Happy TeXing!</span>
</p>