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-% This is issue 19 of LaTeX News.
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-\documentclass{ltnews}
-
-\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
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-\usepackage{lmodern,url}
-
-\publicationmonth{September}
-\publicationyear{2009}
-
-\publicationissue{19}
-
-\begin{document}
-
-\maketitle
-
-\section{New \LaTeX\ release}
-
-This issue of \LaTeX~News marks the first release of a new version of
-\LaTeXe\ since the publication of The \LaTeX\ Companion in 2005--2006.
-
-Just in time for \TeX\ Live 2009, this version is a maintenance
-release and introduces no new features. A number of small changes have
-been made to correct minor bugs in the kernel, slightly extend the Unicode
-support, and improve various
-aspects of some of the \texttt{tools} packages.
-
-\section{New code repository}
-
-Since the last \LaTeX\ release, the entire code base has been moved
-to a public \textsc{svn} repository%
-\footnote{\url{http://www.latex-project.org/svnroot/latex2e-public/}}
-and the entire build architecture re-written. In fact, it has only
-been possible for us to consider a new \LaTeX\ release since earlier
-this year when the test suite was finally set up with the new system.
-In the process, a bug in the \LaTeX\ picture fonts distributed with
-\TeX\ Live was discovered, proving that the
-tests are working and are still very valuable.
-
-Now that we can easily generate new packaged versions of the \LaTeXe\
-distribution, we expect to be able to roll out bug fixes in a much
-more timely manner than over the last few years. New versions should
-be distributed yearly with \TeX\ Live. Having said this, the
-maintenance of the \LaTeXe\ kernel is slowing down as the bugs become
-fewer and more subtle. Remember that we cannot change any of the
-underlying architecture of the kernel or any design decisions of the
-standard classes because we must preserve backwards compatibility with
-legacy documents at all costs.
-
-Even new features cannot be added, because any new documents using
-them will not compile in systems (such as journal production engines)
-that are generally not updated once they've been proven to work as
-necessary.
-
-None of this is to say that we consider \LaTeXe\ to be any less
-relevant for document production than in years past: a stable system
-is a useful one.
-Moreover, the package system continues to provide a flourishing and stable
-means
-for the development of a wide range of extensions.
-
-\newpage
-
-\section{Babel}
-
-One area of the \LaTeXe\ code base that is still receiving feedback to
-be incorporated into the main distribution is the Babel system for
-multilingual typesetting.
-While the Babel sources have already been added to the \textsc{svn} repository the
-integration of the test system for Babel is still outstanding.
-
-
-\section{The future}
-
-While work on \LaTeXe\ tends to maintenance over active development,
-the \LaTeX3 project is
-seeing new life. Our goals here are to provide a transition from the
-\LaTeXe\ document processing model to one with a more flexible
-foundation. Work is continuing in the \textsf{expl3} programming
-language and the \textsf{xpackages} for document design. Future
-announcements
-about \LaTeX3 will be available via the \LaTeX\ Project
-website and in TUGboat.
-
-\end{document}