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  31 % This is issue 13 of LaTeX News.
  32
  33 \documentclass
  34 %    [lw35fonts]     % uncomment this line to get Palatino
  35    {ltnews}[2000/07/21]
  36
  37 % \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
  38
  39 \publicationmonth{June}
  40 \publicationyear{2000}
  41 \publicationissue{13}
  42
  43
  44 \begin{document}
  45
  46 \maketitle
  47
  48 \raisefirstsection
  49 \section{Yearly release cycle}
  50
  51 We announced in \textit{\LaTeX{} News~11} that we intended to switch
  52 to a 12-monthly release schedule.  With the present (June~2000)
  53 release, this switch is being made: thus the next release of \LaTeX{}
  54 will be dated June~2001.  We shall of course continue, as in the past,
  55 to release patches as needed to fix significant bugs.
  56
  57
  58 \section{PSNFSS: \small Quote of the Month}
  59
  60 \begin{quote}
  61   You should say in the \LaTeX{} News that Walter Schmidt has taken over
  62   \PSNFSS{} from me. It gives me a certain pleasure to be able to draw a
  63   line under that part of my life\ldots
  64
  65   \begin{latexonly}
  66     \vspace{-\baselineskip}
  67   \end{latexonly}
  68
  69   \begin{flushright}
  70     Sebastian Rahtz
  71   \end{flushright}
  72 \end{quote}
  73
  74 \begin{latexonly}
  75   \vspace{-\baselineskip}
  76 \end{latexonly}
  77
  78 \noindent
  79 The \PSNFSS{} material, which supports the use\latex{\\}
  80 of common PostScript fonts with \LaTeX{}, has been thoroughly updated.
  81 Most noticeably, the \package{mathpple} package, which used to be
  82 distributed separately, is now part of the basic \PSNFSS{} bundle;
  83 this package provides mathematical typesetting with the Palatino
  84 typeface family.  In addition, numerous bugs and flaws have been fixed
  85 and the distribution has been `cleaned up'.  The file
  86 \file{changes.txt} contains a detailed list of these changes.
  87 \latex{\looseness=-1}   %%!!!!! It worked!
  88
  89 The documentation (in \file{psnfss2e.pdf}) has been completely
  90 rewritten to provide a comprehensive introduction to the use
  91 of PostScript fonts.
  92
  93 Notice that the new \PSNFSS{} needs updated files for font metrics,
  94 virtual fonts and font definitions.  If you received the new
  95 version~(8.1) as part of a complete \TeX{} system then these new font
  96 files should also have been installed.  However, if you intend to
  97 install or update \PSNFSS{} yourself, please read the instructions in
  98 the file \file{00readme.txt} of the new \PSNFSS{} distribution.
  99
 100 Support for commercial PostScript fonts, such as
 101 Lucida~Bright, has been removed from the basic distribution;
 102 it is now available from \ctan{}:
 103 \begin{latexonly}
 104   \file{\ctanhttp macros/latex/\\
 105     contrib/supported/psnfssx}.
 106 \end{latexonly}
 107 \begin{htmlonly}
 108   \url{http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/psnfssx}.
 109 \end{htmlonly}
 110
 111 \section{New AMS-\LaTeX{}}
 112
 113 Version 2.0 of AMS-\LaTeX{} was released on December 1, 1999. It can
 114 be obtained via \url{ftp://ftp.ams.org/pub/tex/} or
 115 \url{http://www.ams.org/tex/amslatex.html}, as well from \ctan{}:
 116 \begin{latexonly}
 117   \file{\ctanhttp macros/latex/\\
 118     required/amslatex}.
 119 \end{latexonly}
 120 \begin{htmlonly}
 121   \url{http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/amslatex}.
 122 \end{htmlonly}
 123
 124 This release consists chiefly of bug fixes and consolidation of the
 125 existing features. The division of AMS-\LaTeX{} into two main parts
 126 (the math packages;\latex{\\}
 127 the AMS document classes) has been made more pronounced.
 128 The files \file{diffs-m.txt}, \file{diffs-c.txt},
 129 \file{amsmath.faq}, and \file{amsclass.faq} describe the\latex{\\}
 130 changes and address some common questions.
 131
 132 The primary documentation files remain \file{amsldoc.tex}, for the
 133 \package{amsmath} package, and \file{instr-l.tex}, for the AMS
 134 document classes.\latex{\\}
 135 The documentation for the \package{amsthm} package,\latex{\\}
 136 however, has been moved from \file{amsldoc.tex}\latex{\\}
 137 to a separate document \file{amsthdoc.tex}.
 138
 139 \begin{latexonly}
 140   \vfill
 141 \end{latexonly}
 142
 143 \section{New input encoding \package{latin4}}
 144
 145 The package \package{inputenc} has, thanks to Hana Skoumalov\'a,
 146 been extended to cover the \package{latin4} input encoding; this
 147 covers Baltic and Scandinavian languages as well as Greenland
 148 Inuit and Lappish.
 149
 150 \begin{latexonly}
 151   \vfill
 152 \end{latexonly}
 153
 154 \section{New experimental code}
 155
 156 In \textit{\LaTeX{} News~12} we announced some ongoing work towards a
 157 `Designer Interface for \LaTeX' and we presented some early results
 158 thereof.  Since then, at Gutenberg\,2000 in Toulouse and TUG\,2000 in
 159 Oxford, we described a new output routine and an improved method of
 160 handling vertical mode material between paragraphs.  In combination
 161 these support higher quality \emph{automated}\footnote
 162                              {The stress here is on automated!}
 163 page-breaking and page make-up\latex{\\}
 164 for complex pages---the best yet achieved with \TeX{}!
 165
 166 A paper describing the new output routine is
 167 \begin{latexonly}
 168   at\\
 169   \file{http://www.latex-project.org/papers/xo-pfloat.pdf%
 170    \hspace*{-16pt}}\\
 171 \end{latexonly}
 172 \begin{htmlonly}
 173   at \url{http://www.latex-project.org/papers/xo-pfloat.pdf}.
 174 \end{htmlonly}
 175 All code examples and documentation are available
 176 \begin{latexonly}
 177   at\\
 178    \file{http://www.latex-project.org/code/experimental/%
 179    \latex{\hspace*{-5pt}}}.\\[3pt]
 180 \end{latexonly}
 181 \begin{htmlonly}
 182   at \url{http://www.latex-project.org/code/experimental/}.
 183
 184 \end{htmlonly}
 185 This directory has been extended to contain
 186 \begin{description}
 187  \item[galley] Prototype implementation of the interface\latex{\\}
 188    for manipulating vertical material in galleys.
 189  \item[xinitials] Prototype implementation of the interface\latex{\\}
 190    for paragraph initials (needs the \texttt{galley} package.
 191  \item[xtheorem] Contributed example using the \texttt{template}
 192    package to provide a designer interface for theorem environments.
 193  \item[xoutput] A prototype implementation of the new output routine
 194    as described in the \texttt{xo-pfloat.pdf} paper. Expected
 195    availability: at or shortly after\latex{\\}
 196    the TUG\,2000 conference.
 197 \end{description}
 198
 199 \end{document}
 200
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