[latex3-commits] [git/LaTeX3-latex3-latex2e] master: minor typos and zap my text from after the document (fa72d99)

David Carlisle d.p.carlisle at gmail.com
Fri Mar 30 21:55:13 CEST 2018


Repository : https://github.com/latex3/latex2e
On branch  : master
Link       : https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/commit/fa72d99f68b9dfe18adae33287cda30746985ee7

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commit fa72d99f68b9dfe18adae33287cda30746985ee7
Author: David Carlisle <d.p.carlisle at gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Mar 30 20:55:13 2018 +0100

    minor typos and zap my text from after the document


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fa72d99f68b9dfe18adae33287cda30746985ee7
 doc/ltnews28.tex |   40 +++++-----------------------------------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/ltnews28.tex b/doc/ltnews28.tex
index 59d5eeb..0a78141 100644
--- a/doc/ltnews28.tex
+++ b/doc/ltnews28.tex
@@ -91,13 +91,13 @@ and with further details also discussed in~\cite{Mittelbach:TB39-1}.
 The first \TeX{} implementations only supported reading 7-bit
 \acro{ascii} files---any accented or otherwise ``special'' character
 had to be entered using commands, if it could be represented at
-all. For example to obtain an ``a'' one would enter \verb=\"a=, and to
+all. For example to obtain an ``\"a'' one would enter \verb=\"a=, and to
 typeset a ``\ss'' the command \verb=\ss=. Furthermore fonts at that
 time had 128 glyphs inside, holding the \acro{ascii} characters, some
 accents to build composite glyphs from a letter and an accent, and a
 few special symbols such as parantheses, etc.
 
-with 8-bit \TeX{} engines such as \hologo{pdfTeX} this situation changed
+With 8-bit \TeX{} engines such as \hologo{pdfTeX} this situation changed
 somewhat: it was now possible to process 8-bit files, i.e., files that
 could encode 256 different characters. However, 256 is still a fairly
 small number and with this limitation it is only possible to encode a
@@ -145,11 +145,11 @@ current font---something that sometimes produces the right result but
 often enough will not.
 
 In 1992 Ken Thompson and Rob Pike developed the UTF-8 encoding scheme
-which allows to encode all Unicode characters within 8-bit sequences
+which the encoding of all Unicode characters within 8-bit sequences
 and over time this encoding has gradually taken over the world,
 replacing the legacy 8-bit encodings used before. These days all major
 computer operating systems use UTF-8 to store their files and it
-requires some effort to explicitly store files in one of the legay
+requires some effort to explicitly store files in one of the legacy
 encodings.
 
 As a result, whenever \LaTeX{} users want to use any accented
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ For most existing documents this change will be transparent:
 \item documents that already had been stored in UTF-8 (whether or not
   specifying this via \package{inputenc}).
 \end{itemize}
-Only documents that have been stored in a legay encoding and used
+Only documents that have been stored in a legacy encoding and used
 accented letters from the keyboard \emph{without} loading
 \package{inputenc} (relying on the similarities between the input used
 and the T1 font encoding) are affected.
@@ -316,33 +316,3 @@ needs adjustment.
 \end{thebibliography}
 
 \end{document}
-
-
-
-Since the release of \LaTeXe, \LaTeX\ has supported multiple file encodings
-via the \package{inputenc} package. It used to be necessary to support several
-different input encodings to support different languages. These days Unicode
-and in particular the UTF-8 file encoding can support multiple languages
-in a single encoding. UTF-8 is the default  encoding in most current operating
-systems and editors, and is the only encoding natively supported by
-\hologo{LuaTeX} and \hologo{XeTeX}.
-
-Documents using non ASCII characters should already be specifying the
-encoding used via an option to the \package{inputenc} package. Such
-documents should not be affected by this change in default.
-
-
-Some documents would have been using accemted letters \emph{without}
-loading \package{inputenc}, relying on the similarities between the
-input used and the T1 font encoding.  These documents will generate an
-error that they are not valid UTF-8, however the documents may be
-easily processed by specifying the encoding used by adding a line such
-as \verb|\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}|, or adding the new command
-\verb|\UseRawInputEncoding| as the first line of the file. This will
-re-instate the previous default.
-
-\verb|\UseRawInputEncoding| may also be used on the commandline to
-process existing files without requiring the file to be edited\\
-  \verb|pdflatex '\UseRawInputEncoding \input'  file|\\
-will process the file using the previous default encoding.
-





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