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- LaTeX Patches Guide
-
- 21 November 1994
-
-
- This document describes the procedure by which changes to the LaTeX
- distribution in between the six-monthly releases will be made.
-
- Such changes will be made only when major problems are discovered and
- fixed. Other changes will only be made twice a year, in June and
- December.
-
- Changes which affect the file latex.ltx, and hence the format, are
- called `patches to the LaTeX kernel': this concept is described in
- detail below. The changes of this type are described briefly at the
- end of this file, in chronological order.
-
- All changes to all files should be listed, in reverse-time order, in
- the files called changes.txt: there is one in each distribution
- subdirectory.
-
-
- Patches to the LaTeX kernel dated <1994/12/01>
- ==============================================
-
- New releases of LaTeX will occur at six-monthly intervals, in June and
- December. Between these releases it may be necessary to make small
- updates to fix major problems.
-
- We have made it relatively easy to install updates that affect only
- the format---by placing all these changes in one file, called
- ltpatch.ltx.
-
- In order to update your LaTeX format you should put
- ltpatch.ltx where it can be read by iniTeX and then run iniTeX on
- latex.ltx. You do not need to unpack the latex sources again.
-
- In this run of iniTeX, the file ltpatch.ltx (if it exists) will be
- read just before the format file is `dumped'. This will correct any
- bugs and it will modify the opening banner of LaTeX: for example,
- from:
-
- LaTeX2e <1994/12/01>
-
- to:
-
- LaTeX2e <1994/12/01> patch level 1
-
-
- Other changes
- =============
-
- Note that ltpatch.ltx fixes only bugs that are present in the LaTeX
- format. Problems in packages, classes and other files will be fixed
- by re-issuing the appropriate files, some of which may need to be
- unpacked.
-
-
- Changes to the kernel in LaTeX2e <1994/06/01> patch level 1
- -----------------------------------------------------------
- (1994/12/01)
-
- %%% pr/627 T1 breaks german 2.4a
- %%% until german.sty and friend are updated we force
- %%% reinitialisations of the \" accent
-
-
- Changes to non-kernel files in LaTeX <1994/12/01>
- --------------------------------------------------
-
- To activate the non-kernel updates you have to retrieve the
- .dtx files and unpack them with their corresponding .ins files
-
-
-
- --- Copyright 1994 the LaTeX3 project. All rights reserved ---
-
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