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See also `legal.txt' for additional +% information. +% +% The list of derived (unpacked) files belonging to the distribution +% and covered by LPPL is defined by the unpacking scripts (with +% extension .ins) which are part of the distribution. +% +% \fi +% Filename: ltnews15.tex +% +% This is issue 15 of LaTeX News. + +\documentclass +% [lw35fonts] % uncomment this line to get Palatino + {ltnews}[2004/02/28] + +% \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} + +\publicationmonth{December} +\publicationyear{2003} +\publicationissue{15} + +\begin{document} + +\maketitle + +%\raisefirstsection + +\section{Anniversary release} + +Yes, it's now 10~years since the first release in this series and, for +Knuthists, this release also contains \textit{Issue 16}\,! + +Meanwhile this \textit{Issue~15} describes the major new features in +the current release whilst \textit{Issue~16} looks\newline +a little way into the future of \LaTeX{}. + + +\section{LPPL -- new version} + +Most importantly, there is now a new version, 1.3, of the \LaTeX{} +Project Public Licence. Many of you will\newline +be thrilled to know that, following the exchange of over 1600 e-mail +messages dissecting various aspects of its philosophy such as `how +many angels can appear in the name of a file before it becomes +non-free', this version\newline +is now officially a DFSG (Debian Free Software Guidelines) approved license. +The discussions start at +\url{http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/debian-legal-200207/threads.html} +with high traffic throughout August to October~2002 and further +heated discussions starting in April~2003 and concluding +around June at +\url{http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200306/msg00206.html}. + +The important features of the new version are useful clarifications in +the wording, and revised procedures\newline +for making a change to the Current Maintainer of a package. Special +thanks to all those people from\newline Debian Legal who worked +constructively with us\newline +on this onerous task, especially but not exclusively\newline +Jeff Licquia and Branden Robinson. + + +\section{Small updates to varioref} + +The English has been corrected in \verb|\reftextbefore| +(an incompatible change). There are other extensions +such as \verb|\labelformat|, \verb|\Ref|, \verb|\Vref| and \verb|\vpagerefnum|. +Some Dutch text has also been changed and two\newline +new options added: \package{slovak} and \package{slovene}. + + +\section{New and more robust commands} + +Many of the math mode commands for compound symbols have been made +robust and a new robust command has been added: \verb|\nobreakdashes|. +This last is a low-level command, borrowed from the \package{amsmath} +package, for use only before hyphens or dashes. It prevents the line +break that is normally allowed\newline +after the following sequence of dashes. + + +\section{Fixing font sizes} + +The new \package{fix-cm} package, by Walter Schmidt, changes the CM font +definition (\texttt{.fd}) files so that similar design sizes are used +in both the \texttt{OT1} and \texttt{T1} encodings. + + +\section{Font encodings} + +A number of options have been added to the \package{textcomp} package, +enabling only available glyphs to be used. +Also, the `NFSS font families' are now divided into five different groups +according to the subset of glyphs each provides from the full +collection of symbols in the TS1 encoding. +Given sufficient information about a font family +\package{textcomp} will use this in order to limit the\newline +typesetting to those glyphs that are available. + +Use of this mechanism has also enhanced \verb|\oldstylenums| +to use the current font if possible. + + +\section{Displaying font tables} + +With the \package{nfssfont} package you can now +specify the font to display by giving its `NFSS classification', +rather than needing to know its external font file's name. +It is also now possible to generate large collections of font +tables in batch mode by providing a suitable input file. + + +\section{New input encodings} + +The \package{inputenc} package has been extended as follows: +\package{macce} input encoding +(Apple Central European), +thanks to Radek Tryc and Marcin Wolinski; \package{cp1257}\newline +for Baltic languages; \package{latin10}, +thanks to Ionel Ciob\^{i}c\u{a}.\newline +The euro symbol has by +now been added to several encodings: +\package{ansinew}, \package{cp1250} +and \package{cp1252} (which also\newline +has another addition), whilst \package{cp858} +adds it to \package{cp850}. + + +\section{Unicode input} + +Partial, experimental support for text files that use the Unicode +encoding form UTF-8 is now provided by the option \package{utf8} for +the \package{inputenc} package. + +The only Unicode text file characters supported by the current version +are those based on the most common inputs for glyphs from the small +collection\newline +of standard \LaTeX{} Latin encodings. + + +\section{And finally \ldots\ pict2e} + +The old, non-functional version of this package has been removed + as there is now a fully working version from Hubert G\"a{\ss}lein + and Rolf Niepraschk. It is described + in \textit{The \LaTeX{} Manual}. + +\end{document} |