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+Changes in version 3.16
+
+These are changes from 3.15a, which incorporated a couple of
+minor corrections made on the day 3.15 was uploaded
+
+New answers:
+ Label chngmargonfly: changing the document's margins "on the fly"
+ Label doc-wiki: catalogue of known tex-related WIKIs
+ Label fonts-pln: "sophisticated" font selection macros in Plain TeX
+ Label gutter: the problem with two-sided document margins
+ Label marginmanual: setting up the document's margins "by hand"
+ Label marginpkgs: packages for setting up the document's margins
+ Label matchbrak: matching "[]" in optional arguments, etc.
+ Label newfont: why shouldn't I use \newfont in LaTeX?
+ Label poster: summary of the inadequate state of support for posters
+ Label repeatgrf: repeated graphics in documents
+ Label whatbst: choosing a BibTeX style
+ Label whatpdftex: "PDFTeX has entered the mainstream" (actually, it did some
+ time ago, but I've now "recognised" that in the FAQ)
+
+Answers removed:
+ Label pdftex: I think pdftex is no longer "research" -- see label whatpdftex
+
+Revised answers:
+ Label ant: correct home page reference
+ Label changemargin: rehashed as intro and list of links to (new)
+ "instruction" answers marginpkgs, marginmanual
+ and chngmargonfly
+ Label complist: mention multenum package
+ Label cv: europecv has improved, and there's a new class moderncv
+ Label dvipsgraphics: extend discussion of bitmap graphics in dvips
+ Label drawing: correct URL for pstricks site
+ Label findfiles: remove mention of the (long dead) quote site index,
+ add the catalogue bytopic.html
+ Label fmtconv: troff-to-latex no longer available
+ Label newfunction: mention \operatorname command
+ Label labundef: mention labelcas package
+ Label labelfig: mention iTe editor, correct URL on pstricks page
+ Label man-tex: correct URL for Andy Roberts' page
+ Label man-latex: add Chris Harrison's web manual
+ Label rotating: mention rotfloat package
+ Label seccntformat: correction of suggested code
+ Label secthead: remove 2.09 font commands from "simple" example
+ Label struttab: mention new cellspace package
+ Label texsystems: mention w32tex (from japan) -- capable of being a "minimal"
+ system
+ Label tutbitslatex: correct URL for the pTeX description, add link to Smith's
+ "LaTeX for logicians"
+ Label usepictex: correct stuff about mathspic package
+ Label verbwithin: make clear problems apply to verbatim environment, too
+ Label xetex: simplify the answer (the details are all on the web
+ site, anyway), and mention the new linux port
+
+Presentation:
+ LaTeX ``...'' quotes in the source used to be converted to the ascii
+ double-quote character in the HTML; this is changed to use the HTML
+ entities for "typographic" quotes (similarly for single quotes and
+ apostrophes).
+
+ A minor change to html generation has been made, inserting paragraph
+ elements after block quotes: this makes CSS-controlled display more
+ regular (a CSS sheet is used in the code generated for the new CGI
+ engine -- see below).
+
+ Building the FAQ now requires e-TeX (or rather [pdf-]e-LaTeX); this
+ should not be a problem unless your TeX distribution is a bit aged.
+
+Future releases:
+ This release is wildly overdue (even making allowance for my
+ extended illness). If I can find the time to do so, I intend in
+ future to release anything that's available, around the end of each
+ month. Full releases, with batches of new questions, may still be
+ long delayed, but I hope not.
+
+Coming up (still):
+ I have a far more efficient CGI engine for serving answers to the web;
+ those of a strong constitution may view the experimental testbed at:
+ URL http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html-gamma
+ It is missing a search engine, various links and topping and tailing
+ of answers; it uses Cambridge University's "default" CSS sheet in a
+ non-standard way; and, crucially it lacks **SUPPORT**. I welcome
+ suggestions for improving the way I do things, but I can't claim it
+ will always work.
+
+ Mechanisms whereby I can point to the CTAN catalogue from FAQ
+ answers remains as a "background task"; I suggested several ways
+ (last time) in which such links would be valuable.