[OS X TeX] TL2005 is there: TeX i-Packages based on TL2005 released

[Gerben Wierda]

On Oct 1, 2005, at 11:52, Simon Spiegel wrote:

> Thank you very much for your work. Is there a changelog for TL2005, 
> have there been some significant changes which affect the common user? 
> Googling didn't bring up anything.

TL2005 has fewer bugs than TL2004 (e.g. TeX4ht etc) and a more recent 
pdfeTeX 3.141592-1.30.3-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5). Other parts have also been 
updated. I cannot keep track of everything myself, but using this 
generally is better than using the TL2004 version (pdfeTeX 
3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.3)). The most important setup/layout 
changes for TeX were in the TL2003-TL2004 transition.

An important change is with respect to detecting pdfTeX versus normal 
TeX. There used to be a hack that worked which does not work anymore 
with the setup these days. Nowayday, using ifpdf.sty (in either LaTeX 
or plain TeX) is the preferred way of detecting PDFTeX vs normal TeX:

% Use:       LaTeX: \usepackage{ifpdf}
%            plain: \input ifpdf.sty
%            The package provides the switch \ifpdf:
%              \ifpdf
%                ... do things, if pdfTeX is running in pdf mode ...
%              \else
%                ... other TeX or pdfTeX in dvi mode ...
%              \fi
%            The package can also be used to set global
%            documentclass options:
%              \RequirePackage{ifpdf}
%              \ifpdf
%                \documentclass[pdftex,...]{...}
%              \else
%                \documentclass[...]{...}
%              \fi

Basically, I have been using my TL2005-based setup for a few months now 
and have not encountered any serious problem.

G


>
> simon
>
>
> On 01.10.2005, at 10:18, Gerben Wierda wrote:
>
>> The updated TeX i-Packages:
>>     - TeX
>>     - CM Super
>>     - CB Greek
>>     - MusixTeX
>> have been released into the standard i-Directories.
>>
>> On the TeX i-Package:
>>
>> The TeX i-Package contains 3 releases for 2 architectures:
>> - Based on TeX Liv L2003 and teTeX 2 (for powerpc only)
>> - Based on TeX Live 2004 and teTeX 3 (for powerpc and intel)
>> - Based on TeX Live 2005 and teTeX 3 (for powerpc and intel)
>>
>> This means that binaries aretaken from TeX Live, that the basic texmf 
>> tree is taken from teTeX and that additions to that texmf tree (e.g. 
>> gwTeX) are taken mostly from TeX Live too.
>>
>> - The TL2005/teTeX3 release is the new default stable release
>> - The TL2003/teTeX2 release is retained for backward compatibility as 
>> the TeX Directory Structure has changed in 2004.
>> - The TL2004/teTeX3 release is the previous stable release. It will 
>> be retained for a period of weeks/months only and then be removed 
>> from the i-Package. The TL2005 release is backwards compatible with 
>> the TL2004 release.
>>
>> Most users are advised to install the basic or full 2005 release.
>>
>> The gwTeX additions are mostly based on TeX Live too. It contains as 
>> of today:
>> - ppower4
>> - relsymb (not from TeX Live)
>> - algorithm
>> - tipa
>> - texpower
>> - ucs
>> - pdfslide
>> - pdfscreen
>> - answers
>> - ntheorem
>> - pdftricks
>> - emp
>> - prosper
>> - pdfcprot
>> - betababel
>> - mentis
>> - stdpage
>> - blacklettert1
>> - gothic
>> - hfoldsty
>> - dictsym
>> - cjhebrew
>> - xyling
>>
>> When you install TL2003/teTeX 2 you get additionally stuff that is 
>> not in teTeX2 but that is in teTeX3
>> - textcomp
>> - listings
>> - memoir
>> - xcolor
>> - pgf
>>
>> There has been one major i-Package user interface. There now is the 
>> choice for which user you want to confgure TeX. If you choose a 
>> particular user, the configuration results end up in that user's 
>> ~/Library/texmf directory. It is not advisable to do this unless you 
>> have multiple users that have conflicting wishes with respect to 
>> hyphenation patterns, etc (e.g. one wants another hyphenation pattern 
>> than the other for the same language). The coverage of per-user is 
>> not 100% perfect. Especially the effect of multiple users on 
>> uninstall is not complete yet. However, this will not affect most 
>> users.
>>
>> I will be subscribed to the Mac OS X TeX mailing list for the first 
>> few weeks after this release.
>>
>> G
>>
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