/
ltnews02.tex
154 lines (122 loc) · 5.16 KB
/
ltnews02.tex
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
% \iffalse meta-comment
%
% Copyright (C) 1993-2021
% The LaTeX3 Project and any individual authors listed elsewhere
% in this file.
%
% This file is part of the LaTeX base system.
% -------------------------------------------
%
% It may be distributed and/or modified under the
% conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c
% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
% The latest version of this license is in
% http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
% and version 1.3c or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX
% version 2008 or later.
%
% This file has the LPPL maintenance status "maintained".
%
% The list of all files belonging to the LaTeX base distribution is
% given in the file `manifest.txt'. 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: ltnews02.tex
% This is issue 2 of LaTeX News.
\documentclass
% [lw35fonts]
{ltnews}
\publicationmonth{December}
\publicationyear{1994}
\publicationissue{2}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\section{Welcome to \LaTeXNews~2}
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{December 1994 release of \LaTeX}
December 1994 sees the second release of \LaTeXe. We are on schedule
to deliver a release of \LaTeX{} every six months, in December and
June.
This release has seen quite a lot of activity, which is not too
surprising as it's only been a year since the first test release of
\LaTeXe. We don't expect so much activity in the next six months.
Many of the changes are minor improvements and bug-fixes---see
\emph{\LaTeXe{} for authors} (\verb|usrguide.tex|), \emph{\LaTeXe{}
font selection} (\verb|fntguide.tex|) and our change log
(\verb|changes.txt|) for more details.
However, there are two important new packages available for \LaTeX:
\texttt{inputenc} and AMS-\LaTeX.
\section{Accented input}
One of the problems with writing non-English documents in \LaTeX{} is
the accent commands. Reading documents containing text like
\verb|na\"\i ve| is frustrating, especially if your keyboard allows
you to type \texttt{na\"\i ve}.
In the past, \LaTeX{} has not supported input containing accented
characters such as \texttt{\"\i}, because Windows, Macintosh and Unix
all have different ways of dealing with accented input, called
\emph{input encodings}.
However, the \verb|inputenc| package allows you to specify which input
encoding your document is written with, for example to use the ISO
Latin-1 encoding, you type:
\begin{verbatim}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\end{verbatim}
At the moment, \verb|inputenc| supports the \verb|ascii| and
\verb|latin1| input encodings, but more will be added with future
releases.
The \verb|inputenc| package is
currently a test release. The user interface for the full release will
be upwardly compatible with the test version.
\section{AMS-\LaTeX{}}
AMS-\LaTeX{} is a set of miscellaneous extensions for \LaTeX{}
distributed by the American Mathematical Society. They provide superior
information structure and superior printed output for mathematical
documents.
There are far too many features of AMS-\LaTeX{} to list here.
AMS-\LaTeX{} is described in the accompanying documentation,
and in \emph{The \LaTeX{} Companion}.
Version 1.2beta of AMS-\LaTeX{} was released for testing by intrepid
users in October 1994. The full release of AMS-\LaTeX{}~1.2 is expected
in early January 1995.
It will be divided into two bundles:
\begin{itemize}
\item the \verb|amsfonts| packages, which give access to
hundreds of new mathematical symbols, and new math fonts
such as blackboard bold and fraktur.
\item the \verb|amsmath| packages, which provide finer control over
mathematical typesetting, such as multi-line subscripts,
enhanced theorem and proof environments,
and improved displayed equations,
\end{itemize}
For compatibility with older documents, an \verb|amstex| package will be
provided.
\section{\LaTeX{} on the internet}
\LaTeX{} has its own home page on the World Wide Web, with the URL:
\begin{verbatim}
http://www.tex.ac.uk/CTAN/latex/
\end{verbatim}
This page describes \LaTeX{} and the \LaTeX3 project, and contains
pointers to other \LaTeX{} resources, such as the user guides, the
\TeX{} Frequently Asked Questions, and the \LaTeX{} bugs database.
The electronic home of anything \TeX-related is the Comprehensive
\TeX{} Archive Network (CTAN). This is a network of cooperating ftp
sites, with over a gigabyte of \TeX{} material:
\begin{verbatim}
ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/
ftp://ftp.shsu.edu/tex-archive/
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/
\end{verbatim}
For more information, see the \LaTeX{} home page.
\section{Further information}
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}