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- News in release 0.4:
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- - METAPOST (thanks, Ulrik!)
- - fonts added/updated: sauter fonts 2.4, bbold, bbm, stmary, cyrillic
- encoding (OT2) support for LaTeX
- - added/updated hyphenation patterns: danish, czech
- - added/updated "companion" packages: a4dutch, a4wide, a5, a5comb, bar,
- changebar, citesort, curves, curvesls, draftcopy, eclbip, ecltree,
- endnotes, fnpara, footnpag, hangcaption, letterspace, multibox,
- multind, multirow, portland, psboxit, pstricks, revtex, tabls,
- threeparttable, trees, vpage
- - added/updated other macro packages: geometry, psfrag, pslatex, revtex,
- xypic
- - new Kpathsea feature: brace expansion
- - some bug fixes (e.g. psfrag script, babel docs)
- - documentation added/updated:
- "The TeX and LaTeX Catalogue", uktug-faq, de-tex-faq, latex209-html
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- News in release 0.3.4:
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- - New items in this release:
- * support for more common UNIX platforms: Solaris 2.5, AIX 4.X,
- HP-UX 10.01, NEXTSTEP (NeXT,Intel,HP-PA,SPARC)
- * sauter fonts
- * documentation (FAQs, epslatex.ps, catalogue.html)
- * some LaTeX packages
- - Updated items:
- * DC fonts 1.3 patchlevel 2
- * LaTeX2e <1996/06/01> with many extra packages
- * TeXdraw macros
- * PostScript fonts: now backward compatible to the
- old dvips setup (virtual fonts for ptmr, phvr, ... added)
- - Removed items:
- * stand-alone info reader
- * myletter LaTeX package (permission withdrawn by author)
- * xtexsh (needs old Tcl/Tk)
- * some urw PostScript fonts: antiqua grotesq nimbus
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- News in release 0.3.3:
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- There are too many changes from teTeX-0.2.2 to teTeX-0.3.3. Here are
- the ones, I still remember:
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- - from Knuth (TeX95): TeX 3.14159, Metafont 2.718, CM fonts update
- - LaTeX2e <1995/06/01> patch level 3
- - xdvi find its app-defaults via XAPPLRESDIR variable (no link in
- /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults or whatever necessary)
- - new babel system
- - new PostScript font setup
- - texconfig and MakeTeX{PK,TFM} are rewritten:
- texconfig can now be used to configure MakeTeX{PK,TFM}
- texconfig can set a global default mode (xdvi/dvips/mf/MakeTeXTFM)
- texconfig can run in batch mode
- dvips can be configured to save to a file by default
- - psfrag added (needs perl)
- - ps2pk added
- - mathptm fonts. Theese math fonts look much better with times than the
- standard Computer Modern Math fonts.
- - more TDS (TeX Directory Standard) compliant (see texmf/doc/help/tds.dvi)
- - gsftopk now works with gs3.X, but gs2.6.2 is still recommended
- - shell scripts ported to run with /bin/sh on most UNIX systems
- (/bin/sh5 on Ultrix)
- - some new LaTeX packages
- - some more documentation
- - fontimport improved
- - new scripts: allneeded, dvihp (replaces dvilj)
- - dvilj driver for Laserjer 2 compatible printers
- - font directory tree conforms to TDS (TeX Directory Standard) and
- fontname-2.0 specifications
- - virmf.X with X11 support, virmf without
- - now uses Kpathsea-2.6 and newer drivers:
- dvipsk-5.58f
- xdvik-18f
- dviljk-2.5
- gsftopkk-1.10
- - automatic font generation via lpd on Linux now works
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