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  31 % This is issue 2 of LaTeX News.
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  33 \documentclass
  34 %   [lw35fonts]
  35    {ltnews}
  36
  37 \publicationmonth{December}
  38 \publicationyear{1994}
  39 \publicationissue{2}
  40
  41 \begin{document}
  42
  43 \maketitle
  44
  45 \section{Welcome to \LaTeXNews~2}
  46
  47 An issue of \emph{\LaTeXNews} will accompany every future release of
  48 \LaTeX.  It will tell you about important events, such as major bug
  49 fixes, newly available packages, or any other \LaTeX{} news.
  50
  51 \section{December 1994 release of \LaTeX}
  52
  53 December 1994 sees the second release of \LaTeXe.  We are on schedule
  54 to deliver a release of \LaTeX{} every six months, in December and
  55 June.
  56
  57 This release has seen quite a lot of activity, which is not too
  58 surprising as it's only been a year since the first test release of
  59 \LaTeXe.  We don't expect so much activity in the next six months.
  60
  61 Many of the changes are minor improvements and bug-fixes---see
  62 \emph{\LaTeXe{} for authors} (\verb|usrguide.tex|), \emph{\LaTeXe{}
  63 font selection} (\verb|fntguide.tex|) and our change log
  64 (\verb|changes.txt|) for more details.
  65
  66 However, there are two important new packages available for \LaTeX:
  67 \texttt{inputenc} and AMS-\LaTeX.
  68
  69 \section{Accented input}
  70
  71 One of the problems with writing non-English documents in \LaTeX{} is
  72 the accent commands.  Reading documents containing text like
  73 \verb|na\"\i ve| is frustrating, especially if your keyboard allows
  74 you to type \texttt{na\"\i ve}.
  75
  76 In the past, \LaTeX{} has not supported input containing accented
  77 characters such as \texttt{\"\i}, because Windows, Macintosh and Unix
  78 all have different ways of dealing with accented input, called
  79 \emph{input encodings}.
  80
  81 However, the \verb|inputenc| package allows you to specify which input
  82 encoding your document is written with, for example to use the ISO
  83 Latin-1 encoding, you type:
  84 \begin{verbatim}
  85    \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
  86 \end{verbatim}
  87 At the moment, \verb|inputenc| supports the \verb|ascii| and
  88 \verb|latin1| input encodings, but more will be added with future
  89 releases.
  90
  91 The \verb|inputenc| package is
  92 currently a test release.  The user interface for the full release will
  93 be upwardly compatible with the test version.
  94
  95 \section{AMS-\LaTeX{}}
  96
  97  AMS-\LaTeX{} is a set of miscellaneous extensions for \LaTeX{}
  98  distributed by the American Mathematical Society. They provide superior
  99  information structure and superior printed output for mathematical
 100  documents.
 101
 102  There are far too many features of AMS-\LaTeX{} to list here.
 103  AMS-\LaTeX{} is described in the accompanying documentation,
 104  and in \emph{The \LaTeX{} Companion}.
 105
 106  Version 1.2beta of AMS-\LaTeX{} was released for testing by intrepid
 107  users in October 1994.  The full release of AMS-\LaTeX{}~1.2 is expected
 108  in early January 1995.
 109
 110  It will be divided into two bundles:
 111  \begin{itemize}
 112
 113  \item the \verb|amsfonts| packages, which give access to
 114     hundreds of new mathematical symbols, and new math fonts
 115     such as blackboard bold and fraktur.
 116
 117  \item the \verb|amsmath| packages, which provide finer control over
 118     mathematical typesetting, such as multi-line subscripts,
 119     enhanced theorem and proof environments,
 120     and improved displayed equations,
 121
 122  \end{itemize}
 123  For compatibility with older documents, an \verb|amstex| package will be
 124  provided.
 125
 126 \section{\LaTeX{} on the internet}
 127
 128 \LaTeX{} has its own home page on the World Wide Web, with the URL:
 129 \begin{verbatim}
 130    http://www.tex.ac.uk/CTAN/latex/
 131 \end{verbatim}
 132 This page describes \LaTeX{} and the \LaTeX3 project, and contains
 133 pointers to other \LaTeX{} resources, such as the user guides, the
 134 \TeX{} Frequently Asked Questions, and the \LaTeX{} bugs database.
 135
 136 The electronic home of anything \TeX-related is the Comprehensive
 137 \TeX{} Archive Network (CTAN).  This is a network of cooperating ftp
 138 sites, with over a gigabyte of \TeX{} material:
 139 \begin{verbatim}
 140    ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/
 141    ftp://ftp.shsu.edu/tex-archive/
 142    ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/
 143 \end{verbatim}
 144 For more information, see the \LaTeX{} home page.
 145
 146 \section{Further information}
 147
 148 For more information on \TeX{} and \LaTeX, get in touch with your local
 149 \TeX{} Users Group, or the international \TeX{} Users Group,
 150 P.~O.~Box~869, Santa~Barbara, CA~93102-0869, USA, Fax:~+1~805~963~8358,
 151 EMail:~tug@tug.org.
 152
 153
 154 \end{document}