[latex3-commits] [git/LaTeX3-latex3-latex2e] develop: adding bullets again and some minor formatting changes (3bed85ab)

[Frank Mittelbach]

Repository : https://github.com/latex3/latex2e
On branch  : develop
Link       : https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/commit/3bed85abcd618d794e0b3689e2594f5666ad560c

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commit 3bed85abcd618d794e0b3689e2594f5666ad560c
Author: Frank Mittelbach <frank.mittelbach at latex-project.org>
Date:   Wed Jan 29 10:12:03 2020 +0100

    adding bullets again and some minor formatting changes


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3bed85abcd618d794e0b3689e2594f5666ad560c
 base/doc/ltnews31.tex | 38 ++++++++++++++------------------------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

diff --git a/base/doc/ltnews31.tex b/base/doc/ltnews31.tex
index 56fd3bfa..917a67c2 100644
--- a/base/doc/ltnews31.tex
+++ b/base/doc/ltnews31.tex
@@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ the transcript is suppressed (which is not really recommended).
 
 \subsection{New \texttt{alias} size function for use in \texttt{.fd} files}
 
-% these are really called ``size functions'' in NFSS, a bit weird I know
+% These are really called ``size functions'' in NFSS, a bit weird I know
 
 Most of the newer fonts supported in \TeX{} have been set up with the
 \texttt{autoinst} tool by Marc Penninga. In the past, this program
@@ -489,7 +489,6 @@ about its actions, so that only significant font substitutions show
 up as warnings.
 
 
-
 \subsection{Suppress unnecessary font substitution warnings}
 
 Many sans serif fonts do not have real italics but usually only
@@ -546,7 +545,7 @@ This was corrected.
 \githubissue{199}
 
 \enlargethispage{-\smallskipamount}
-\vspace{-\bigskipamount}
+\vspace{-\medskipamount}
 
 \subsection{Ensure that \cs{\textbackslash} remains robust}
 
@@ -591,7 +590,6 @@ has been corrected.
 A new callback type, \texttt{reverselist}, was added:\\ 
 \texttt{post\_mlist\_to\_hlist\_filter} and \texttt{post\_linebreak\_filter} 
 are now of this type.
-%% CAR: reworded with extra jnfo.
 
 
 \section{Changes to packages in the \pkg{graphics} category}
@@ -604,8 +602,6 @@ Some of the user-level commands in \pkg{color}, \pkg{graphics} and
 %\pagebreak
 such as \cs{textcolor} or \cs{includegraphics}, were
 still fragile so didn't work in moving arguments.\\
-%%CAR: removed some words about protextion, to sa ve aline, to save page! 
-%%% Or Frank could easily shorten  box 255 stuff below.
 All of these are now robust.
 %
 \githubissue{208}
@@ -675,6 +671,7 @@ packages from the start of 2021:
 %
 \begingroup\setlength\columnsep{0pt}
 \begin{multicols}{2}
+\fontsize{9.3}{11.3}\selectfont
 \begin{itemize}
   \item \cs{expanded}
   \item \cs{ifincsname}
@@ -721,25 +718,20 @@ up\TeX{} gained all of the above (except \cs{ifincsname}) for \TeX{}~Live
 2019 and will both have that primitive also from the 2020 release onward.
 
 At the same time, engines which are fully Unicode-capable must provide
-the following three primitives:\\
-\mbox{}\hfill 
-\cs{Uchar} \hfill
- \cs{Ucharcat}  \hfill
- \cs{Umathcode}\hfill
- \mbox{}\\
-%% CAR: less ugly and saves a page!    Could add the bullets back !
-%
-\iffalse
+the following three primitives:
+
+\vspace{-\smallskipamount}
 \begingroup\setlength\columnsep{0pt}
 \begin{multicols}{2}
+\fontsize{9.3}{11.3}\selectfont
 \begin{itemize}
   \item \cs{Uchar}
-  \item \cs{Ucharcat}
+  \quad \textbullet{}\hspace{\labelsep}\cs{Ucharcat}
   \item \cs{Umathcode}
 \end{itemize}
 \end{multicols}
+\vspace{-\smallskipamount}
 \endgroup
-\fi
 %
 Note that it has become standard practice to check for Unicode-aware engines
 by using the existence of the \cs{Umathcode} primitive. As such, this is already
@@ -747,14 +739,11 @@ a requirement: engines lacking these primitives cannot use Unicode features
 of the \LaTeXe{} kernel or \pkg{expl3}. Note also that up\TeX{} can
 handling Unicode but it is not classed as a Unicode engine by the 
 base \LaTeX\ code.
-%% CAR:  Some rewordons to gain another line. But (maybe I should
-%%                  have made this even longer to keep the nice flushbottom 
-%%  Roll on Grid Setting!
 
-%% CAR, removed this, but it now needs etxra space somewhere so I put it here
-%%             to get back the nice bottoms.
-%\enlargethispage*{\baselineskip}
-\vspace{0.5\baselineskip}
+\enlargethispage*{\baselineskip}
+\vspace{3.9pt}               % manual adjustment to align the bottom
+
+\showoutput
 
 \begin{thebibliography}{9}
 
@@ -776,4 +765,5 @@ base \LaTeX\ code.
 
 \end{thebibliography}
 
+
 \end{document}