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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: ltnews01.tex + +% This is issue 1 of LaTeX News. + +\documentclass +% [type1fonts] + {ltnews} + +\publicationmonth{June} +\publicationyear{1994} +\publicationissue{1} + +\begin{document} + +\maketitle + +\section{Welcome to \LaTeXNews} + +An issue of \emph{\LaTeXNews} will accompany every future release of +\LaTeX. It will tell you about important events, such as major bug +fixes, newly available packages, or any other \LaTeX{} news. + +\section{\LaTeXe---the new \LaTeX{} release} + +The most important news is the release of \LaTeXe, the new version of +the \LaTeX{} software. This version has better support for fonts, +graphics and colour, and will be actively maintained by the \LaTeX3 +project team. Upgrades will be issued every six months, in June and +December. + +\section{Why a new \LaTeX?} + +Over the years many extensions have been developed for \LaTeX. This +is, of course, a sure sign of its continuing popularity but it has had +one unfortunate result: incompatible \LaTeX{} formats came into use at +different sites. Thus, to process documents from various places, a +site maintainer was forced to keep \LaTeX{} (with and without \NFSS), +\SLiTeX, \AmSLaTeX, and so on. In addition, when looking at a source +file it was not always clear for which format the document was written. + +To put an end to this unsatisfactory +situation a new release of \LaTeX{} was produced. +It brings all such extensions back under a single format and thus +prevents the proliferation of mutually incompatible dialects of +\LaTeX~2.09. The new release was available for several months as a +test version, and the final release of 1~June officially +replaces the old version. + +\section{Processing documents with \LaTeXe} + +Documents written for \LaTeX~2.09 will +still be read by \LaTeXe. Any such document is run in +\emph{\LaTeX~2.09 compatibility mode}. + +Unfortunately, compatibility mode comes with a price: it can run +up to 50\% slower than \LaTeX~2.09 did. If you want to run your document +in the faster \emph{native mode}, you should try replacing the line: +\begin{verbatim} + \documentstyle[<options>,<packages>]{<class>} +\end{verbatim} +with: +\begin{verbatim} + \documentclass[<options>]{<class>} + \usepackage{latexsym,<packages>} +\end{verbatim} +Unfortunately, this will not always work, because some \LaTeX~2.09 +packages will only work in \LaTeXe{} compatibility mode. You should find +out if there is a \LaTeXe{} version of the package available. + +\LaTeXe{} native mode also gives access to the new features of \LaTeXe, +described in \emph{\LaTeXe{} for authors}. + +\section{New packages} + +\LaTeXe{} has much better support for graphics, colour, fonts, and +multi-lingual typesetting. The following software should be available +from the distributor who brought you \LaTeXe: + +\begin{citations} +\item[babel] for typesetting in many languages. +\item[color] for colour support. +\item[graphics] for including images. +\item[mfnfss] for using bitmap fonts. +\item[psnfss] for using Type~1 fonts. +\item[tools] other packages by the \LaTeX3 team. +\end{citations} +The packages come with full documentation, and are also described in +\emph{\LaTeX: A Document Processing System} or +\emph{The \LaTeX{} Companion}. + +\section{Further information} + +More information about \LaTeXe{} is to be found in: + +\begin{citations} +\item[\LaTeX: A Document Preparation System] + Leslie Lamport, \AW, 2nd ed, 1994. +\item[The \LaTeX{} Companion] + Goossens, Mittelbach and Samarin, \AW, 1994. +\end{citations} +The \LaTeX{} distribution comes with documentation on the new features of +\LaTeX: + +\begin{citations} +\item[\LaTeXe{} for authors] + describes the new features of \LaTeX{} documents, + in the file \verb|usrguide.tex|. +\item[\LaTeXe{} for class and package writers] + describes the new features of \LaTeX{} classes and packages, + in the file \verb|clsguide.tex|. +\item[\LaTeXe{} font selection] + describes the new features of \LaTeX{} fonts for + class and package writers, + in the file \verb|fntguide.tex|. +\end{citations} +For more information on \TeX{} and \LaTeX, get in touch with your local +\TeX{} Users Group, or the international \TeX{} Users Group, +P.~O.~Box~869, Santa~Barbara, CA~93102-0869, USA, Fax:~+1~805~963~8358, +EMail:~tug@tug.org. + +\end{document} + + + |