texlive[58096] Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en: better?
commits+karl at tug.org
commits+karl at tug.org
Thu Mar 4 00:27:20 CET 2021
Revision: 58096
http://tug.org/svn/texlive?view=revision&revision=58096
Author: karl
Date: 2021-03-04 00:27:20 +0100 (Thu, 04 Mar 2021)
Log Message:
-----------
better? description of tug.org/FontCatalogue
Modified Paths:
--------------
trunk/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.html
trunk/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.pdf
trunk/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.tex
Modified: trunk/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.html
===================================================================
--- trunk/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.html 2021-03-03 23:18:22 UTC (rev 58095)
+++ trunk/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.html 2021-03-03 23:27:20 UTC (rev 58096)
@@ -2418,27 +2418,27 @@
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">3.4.7 </span> <a
id="x1-360003.4.7"></a>Integrating third-party fonts</h5>
-<!--l. 1220--><p class="noindent" >This is unfortunately a messy topic for TeX and pdfTeX. Forget about it unless you want to delve into
-many details of the TeX installation. Many fonts are included in TeX Live already, so take a look
-if you like; <a
+<!--l. 1220--><p class="noindent" >This is unfortunately a messy topic for TeX and pdfTeX. Forget about it unless you want to delve into many
+details of the TeX installation. Many fonts are included in TeX Live already, so take a look if you like; the web
+pages under <a
href="https://tug.org/FontCatalogue" class="url" ><span
-class="ec-lmtt-10">https://tug.org/FontCatalogue</span></a> is a convenient way to see available fonts on the
-web.
-</p><!--l. 1226--><p class="indent" > If you do need to do this, see <a
+class="ec-lmtt-10">https://tug.org/FontCatalogue</span></a> display nearly all of the text fonts included in the main
+TeX distributions, categorized in various ways.
+</p><!--l. 1227--><p class="indent" > If you do want to install your own fonts, see <a
href="https://tug.org/fonts/fontinstall.html" class="url" ><span
-class="ec-lmtt-10">https://tug.org/fonts/fontinstall.html</span></a> for our best effort at describing
-the procedure.
-</p><!--l. 1230--><p class="indent" > Also consider using XeTeX or LuaTeX (see section <a
+class="ec-lmtt-10">https://tug.org/fonts/fontinstall.html</span></a> for our best
+effort at describing the procedure.
+</p><!--l. 1231--><p class="indent" > Also consider using XeTeX or LuaTeX (see section <a
href="#x1-120002.4">2.4<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:tex-extensions --></a>), which let you use operating system fonts without
any installation in TeX. (But beware that using system fonts makes your documents instantly unusable by
anyone in a different environment.)
-</p><!--l. 1236--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 1237--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">3.5 </span> <a
id="x1-370003.5"></a>Testing the installation</h4>
-<!--l. 1239--><p class="noindent" >After installing TeX Live, you naturally want to test it out, so you can start creating beautiful documents and/
+<!--l. 1240--><p class="noindent" >After installing TeX Live, you naturally want to test it out, so you can start creating beautiful documents and/
or fonts.
-</p><!--l. 1242--><p class="indent" > One thing you may immediately be looking for is a front-end with which to edit files. TeX Live installs
+</p><!--l. 1243--><p class="indent" > One thing you may immediately be looking for is a front-end with which to edit files. TeX Live installs
TeXworks (<a
href="https://tug.org/texworks" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">https://tug.org/texworks</span></a>) on Windows (only), and MacTeX installs TeXShop
@@ -2450,10 +2450,10 @@
href="https://tug.org/interest.html#editors" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">https://tug.org/interest.html#editors</span></a>. Any plain text editor will work; something TeX-specific is not
required.
-</p><!--l. 1251--><p class="indent" > The rest of this section gives some basic procedures for testing that the new system is functional. We give
+</p><!--l. 1252--><p class="indent" > The rest of this section gives some basic procedures for testing that the new system is functional. We give
Unix commands here; under Mac OS X and Windows, you’re more likely to run the tests through a graphical
interface, but the principles are the same.
-</p><!--l. 1256--><p class="indent" >
+</p><!--l. 1257--><p class="indent" >
</p><ol class="enumerate1" >
<li
class="enumerate" id="x1-37002x1">Make sure that you can run the <span
@@ -2537,7 +2537,7 @@
</div>
</div> You should see a new window with a nice document explaining some of the basics of LaTeX. (It’s well
worth reading, by the way, if you’re new to TeX.)
- <!--l. 1294--><p class="noindent" >Of course there are many other PDF viewers; on Unix systems, <span
+ <!--l. 1295--><p class="noindent" >Of course there are many other PDF viewers; on Unix systems, <span
class="ec-lmss-10">evince </span>and <span
class="ec-lmss-10">okular </span>are commonly used. For
Windows, we recommend trying Sumatra PDF (<a
@@ -2619,18 +2619,18 @@
<li
class="enumerate" id="x1-37016x8">Other standard test files you may find useful in addition to <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">sample2e.tex</span>:
- <!--l. 1329--><p class="noindent" >
+ <!--l. 1330--><p class="noindent" >
</p><dl class="list2"><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">small2e.tex</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1330--><p class="noindent" >A simpler document than <span
+ <!--l. 1331--><p class="noindent" >A simpler document than <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">sample2e</span>, to reduce the input size if you’re having troubles.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">testpage.tex</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1332--><p class="noindent" >Test if your printer introduces any offsets.
+ <!--l. 1333--><p class="noindent" >Test if your printer introduces any offsets.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">nfssfont.tex</span> </dt><dd
@@ -2637,17 +2637,17 @@
class="list">
- <!--l. 1333--><p class="noindent" >For printing font tables and tests.
+ <!--l. 1334--><p class="noindent" >For printing font tables and tests.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">testfont.tex</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1334--><p class="noindent" >Also for font tables, but using plain TeX.
+ <!--l. 1335--><p class="noindent" >Also for font tables, but using plain TeX.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">story.tex</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1335--><p class="noindent" >The most canonical (plain) TeX test file of all. You must type ‘<span
+ <!--l. 1336--><p class="noindent" >The most canonical (plain) TeX test file of all. You must type ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\bye</span>’ to the <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">* </span>prompt after
‘<span
@@ -2687,21 +2687,21 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10"> opentype-info.log.</span>
</div>
</div>
- <!--l. 1350--><p class="noindent" >If you get an error message saying “Invalid fontname ‘Latin Modern Roman/ICU’…”, then you
+ <!--l. 1351--><p class="noindent" >If you get an error message saying “Invalid fontname ‘Latin Modern Roman/ICU’…”, then you
need to configure your system so that the fonts shipped with TeX Live can be found. See
section <a
href="#x1-330003.4.4">3.4.4<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:font-conf-sys --></a>.
</p>
</li></ol>
-<!--l. 1357--><p class="noindent" >
+<!--l. 1358--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">3.6 </span> <a
id="x1-380003.6"></a>Links for additional downloadable software</h4>
-<!--l. 1359--><p class="noindent" >If you are new to TeX, or otherwise need help with actually writing TeX or LaTeX documents, please visit
+<!--l. 1360--><p class="noindent" >If you are new to TeX, or otherwise need help with actually writing TeX or LaTeX documents, please visit
<a
href="https://tug.org/begin.html" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">https://tug.org/begin.html</span></a> for some introductory resources.
-</p><!--l. 1363--><p class="indent" > Links for some other tools you may consider installing:
+</p><!--l. 1364--><p class="indent" > Links for some other tools you may consider installing:
</p><dl class="description"><dt class="description">
<span
class="ec-lmbx-10">Ghostscript</span> </dt><dd
@@ -2794,20 +2794,20 @@
href="https://www.winshell.de" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">https://www.winshell.de</span></a>.</li></ul>
</dd></dl>
-<!--l. 1399--><p class="noindent" >For a much longer list of packages and programs, see <a
+<!--l. 1400--><p class="noindent" >For a much longer list of packages and programs, see <a
href="https://tug.org/interest.html" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">https://tug.org/interest.html</span></a>.
-</p><!--l. 1403--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 1404--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h3 class="sectionHead"><span class="titlemark">4 </span> <a
id="x1-390004"></a>Specialized installations</h3>
-<!--l. 1405--><p class="noindent" >The previous sections described the basic installation process. Here we turn to some specialized
+<!--l. 1406--><p class="noindent" >The previous sections described the basic installation process. Here we turn to some specialized
cases.
-</p><!--l. 1408--><p class="indent" > <a id="tlsharedinstall"></a>
+</p><!--l. 1409--><p class="indent" > <a id="tlsharedinstall"></a>
</p>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">4.1 </span> <a
id="x1-400004.1"></a>Shared-user (or cross-machine) installations</h4>
-<!--l. 1412--><p class="noindent" >TeX Live has been designed to be shared between different systems on a network. With a standard directory
+<!--l. 1413--><p class="noindent" >TeX Live has been designed to be shared between different systems on a network. With a standard directory
layout, no hard paths are configured: the locations for files needed by TeX Live programs are found relative to
the programs. You can see this in the principal configuration file <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">$TEXMFDIST/web2c/texmf.cnf</span>, which
@@ -2830,11 +2830,11 @@
class="ec-lmtt-9">TEXMFLOCAL</span><span
class="ec-lmtt-9"> =</span><span
class="ec-lmtt-9"> $SELFAUTOGRANDPARENT/texmf-local</span></div>
-<!--l. 1425--><p class="noindent" >This means that adding the directory for TeX Live executables for their platform to their search path is sufficient
+<!--l. 1426--><p class="noindent" >This means that adding the directory for TeX Live executables for their platform to their search path is sufficient
to get a working setup.
-</p><!--l. 1428--><p class="indent" > By the same token, you can also install TeX Live locally and then move the entire hierarchy afterwards to a
+</p><!--l. 1429--><p class="indent" > By the same token, you can also install TeX Live locally and then move the entire hierarchy afterwards to a
network location.
-</p><!--l. 1431--><p class="indent" > For Windows, TeX Live includes a launcher <span
+</p><!--l. 1432--><p class="indent" > For Windows, TeX Live includes a launcher <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">tlaunch</span>. Its main window contains menu entries and
buttons for various TeX-related programs and documentation, customizable via an <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">ini </span>file. On first
@@ -2847,17 +2847,17 @@
<a
href="https://ctan.org/pkg/tlaunch" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">https://ctan.org/pkg/tlaunch</span></a>).
-</p><!--l. 1442--><p class="indent" > <a id="tlportable"></a>
+</p><!--l. 1443--><p class="indent" > <a id="tlportable"></a>
</p>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">4.2 </span> <a
id="x1-410004.2"></a>Portable (USB) installations</h4>
-<!--l. 1446--><p class="noindent" >The <span
+<!--l. 1447--><p class="noindent" >The <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">-portable </span>installer option (or <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">V </span>command in the text installer or corresponding GUI option)
creates a completely self-contained TeX Live installation under a common root and forgoes system
integration. You can create such an installation directly on a USB stick, or copy it to a USB stick
afterwards.
-</p><!--l. 1452--><p class="indent" > Technically, the portable installation is made self-contained by setting the default values of <span
+</p><!--l. 1453--><p class="indent" > Technically, the portable installation is made self-contained by setting the default values of <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">TEXMFHOME</span>,
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">TEXMFVAR</span>, and <span
@@ -2866,18 +2866,18 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">TEXMFSYSVAR</span>, and <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">TEXMFSYSCONFIG </span>respectively;
thus, per-user configuration and caches will not be created.
-</p><!--l. 1458--><p class="indent" > To run TeX using this portable installation, you need to add the appropriate binary directory to the search
+</p><!--l. 1459--><p class="indent" > To run TeX using this portable installation, you need to add the appropriate binary directory to the search
path during your terminal session, as usual.
-</p><!--l. 1462--><p class="indent" > On Windows, you can double-click <span
+</p><!--l. 1463--><p class="indent" > On Windows, you can double-click <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">tl-tray-menu </span>at the root of the installation and create a temporary
‘tray menu’ offering a choice of a few common tasks, as shown in this screenshot:
-</p><!--l. 1467--><p class="indent" > <img
+</p><!--l. 1468--><p class="indent" > <img
src="../texlive-common/../texlive-common/tray-menu.png" alt="pict"
/>
-</p><!--l. 1470--><p class="noindent" >The ‘More…’ entry explains how you can customize this menu.
-</p><!--l. 1529--><p class="indent" > <a id="tlmgr"></a>
+</p><!--l. 1471--><p class="noindent" >The ‘More…’ entry explains how you can customize this menu.
+</p><!--l. 1530--><p class="indent" > <a id="tlmgr"></a>
</p>
<h3 class="sectionHead"><span class="titlemark">5 </span> <a
id="x1-420005"></a><span
@@ -2890,7 +2890,7 @@
id="x1-42001r9"></a>
-<!--l. 1534--><p class="noindent" ><img
+<!--l. 1535--><p class="noindent" ><img
src="../texlive-common/../texlive-common/tlshell-macos.png" alt="pict"
/>
</p>
@@ -2908,7 +2908,7 @@
id="x1-42002r10"></a>
-<!--l. 1540--><p class="noindent" ><img
+<!--l. 1541--><p class="noindent" ><img
src="../texlive-common/../texlive-common/tlcockpit-packages.png" alt="pict"
/>
</p>
@@ -2927,7 +2927,7 @@
id="x1-42003r11"></a>
-<!--l. 1546--><p class="noindent" ><img
+<!--l. 1547--><p class="noindent" ><img
src="../texlive-common/../texlive-common/tlmgr-gui.png" alt="pict"
/>
</p>
@@ -2937,7 +2937,7 @@
</figure>
-<!--l. 1551--><p class="indent" > TeX Live includes a program named <span
+<!--l. 1552--><p class="indent" > TeX Live includes a program named <span
class="ec-lmss-10">tlmgr </span>for managing TeX Live after the initial installation. Its
capabilities include:
</p>
@@ -2951,7 +2951,7 @@
</li>
<li class="itemize">changing installation options such as paper size and source location (see section <a
href="#x1-280003.3.1">3.3.1<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:location --></a>).</li></ul>
-<!--l. 1563--><p class="indent" > <span
+<!--l. 1564--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmss-10">tlmgr</span>’s functionality completely subsumes the <span
class="ec-lmss-10">texconfig </span>program. We still distribute and maintain <span
class="ec-lmss-10">texconfig</span>
@@ -2961,7 +2961,7 @@
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">5.1 </span> <a
id="x1-430005.1"></a>GUI interfaces for <span
class="ec-lmss-10">tlmgr</span></h4>
-<!--l. 1570--><p class="noindent" >TeX Live contains several GUI front-ends for <span
+<!--l. 1571--><p class="noindent" >TeX Live contains several GUI front-ends for <span
class="ec-lmss-10">tlmgr</span>. Two notable ones: (1) Figure <a
href="#x1-42001r9">9<!--tex4ht:ref: fig:tlshell --></a> shows <span
class="ec-lmss-10">tlshell</span>, which is
@@ -2969,7 +2969,7 @@
href="#x1-42002r10">10<!--tex4ht:ref: fig:tlcockpit --></a> shows <span
class="ec-lmss-10">tlcockpit</span>,
which requires Java version 8 or higher and JavaFX. Both are separate packages.
-</p><!--l. 1576--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 1577--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmss-10">tlmgr </span>also has a native GUI mode (shown in figure <a
href="#x1-42003r11">11<!--tex4ht:ref: fig:tlmgr-gui --></a>), which is started with: </p><div class="alltt">
@@ -2982,12 +2982,12 @@
</div>
</div> However, this GUI extension requires Perl/Tk, which module is no longer included in TeX Live’s Perl
distribution for Windows.
-<!--l. 1584--><p class="noindent" >
+<!--l. 1585--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">5.2 </span> <a
id="x1-440005.2"></a>Sample <span
class="ec-lmss-10">tlmgr </span>command-line invocations</h4>
-<!--l. 1586--><p class="noindent" >After the initial installation, you can update your system to the latest versions available with:
+<!--l. 1587--><p class="noindent" >After the initial installation, you can update your system to the latest versions available with:
</p><div class="alltt">
<div class="obeylines-v">
@@ -3020,7 +3020,7 @@
class="ec-lmtk-10"> -list</span>
</div>
</div>
-<!--l. 1600--><p class="indent" > This more complex example adds a collection, for the engine XeTeX, from a local directory:
+<!--l. 1601--><p class="indent" > This more complex example adds a collection, for the engine XeTeX, from a local directory:
</p>
<div class="alltt">
@@ -3093,11 +3093,11 @@
class="ec-lmtt-8">fmtutil:</span><span
class="ec-lmtt-8"> /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-var/web2c/xetex/xelatex.fmt</span><span
class="ec-lmtt-8"> installed.</span></div>
-<!--l. 1626--><p class="indent" > As you can see, <span
+<!--l. 1627--><p class="indent" > As you can see, <span
class="ec-lmss-10">tlmgr </span>installs dependencies, and takes care of any necessary post-install actions, including
updating the filename database and (re)generating formats. In the above, we generated new formats for
XeTeX.
-</p><!--l. 1631--><p class="indent" > To describe a package (or collection or scheme): </p><div class="alltt">
+</p><!--l. 1632--><p class="indent" > To describe a package (or collection or scheme): </p><div class="alltt">
<div class="obeylines-v">
<span
@@ -3157,7 +3157,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-8"> </span><span
class="ec-lmtt-8"> </span><span
class="ec-lmtt-8"> 657941k</span></div>
-<!--l. 1646--><p class="indent" > Last and most important, for full documentation see <a
+<!--l. 1647--><p class="indent" > Last and most important, for full documentation see <a
href="https://tug.org/texlive/tlmgr.html" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">https://tug.org/texlive/tlmgr.html</span></a>, or:
</p><div class="alltt">
@@ -3170,15 +3170,15 @@
class="ec-lmtk-10"> -help</span>
</div>
</div>
-<!--l. 1653--><p class="noindent" >
+<!--l. 1654--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h3 class="sectionHead"><span class="titlemark">6 </span> <a
id="x1-450006"></a>Notes on Windows</h3>
-<!--l. 1656--><p class="noindent" >
+<!--l. 1657--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">6.1 </span> <a
id="x1-460006.1"></a>Windows-specific features</h4>
-<!--l. 1659--><p class="noindent" >Under Windows, the installer does some extra things:
+<!--l. 1660--><p class="noindent" >Under Windows, the installer does some extra things:
</p><dl class="description"><dt class="description">
<span
class="ec-lmbx-10">Menus and shortcuts.</span> </dt><dd
@@ -3216,19 +3216,19 @@
class="ec-lmbx-10">Write-protect.</span> </dt><dd
class="description">For an admin install, the TeX Live directories are write-protected, at least if TeX
Live is installed on a normal NTFS-formatted non-removable disk.</dd></dl>
-<!--l. 1682--><p class="indent" > Also, have a look at <span
+<!--l. 1683--><p class="indent" > Also, have a look at <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">tlaunch</span>, described in section <a
href="#x1-400004.1">4.1<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:sharedinstall --></a>, for a different approach.
-</p><!--l. 1685--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 1686--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">6.2 </span> <a
id="x1-470006.2"></a>Additional software included on Windows</h4>
-<!--l. 1687--><p class="noindent" >To be complete, a TeX Live installation needs support packages that are not commonly found on a Windows
+<!--l. 1688--><p class="noindent" >To be complete, a TeX Live installation needs support packages that are not commonly found on a Windows
machine. TeX Live provides the missing pieces. These programs are all installed as part of TeX Live only on
Windows.
-</p><!--l. 1691--><p class="indent" >
+</p><!--l. 1692--><p class="indent" >
</p><dl class="description"><dt class="description">
<span
class="ec-lmbx-10">Perl and Ghostscript.</span> </dt><dd
@@ -3275,11 +3275,11 @@
command. If necessary, run <span
class="ec-lmss-10">fc-cache </span>first to update font information.
</dd></dl>
-<!--l. 1727--><p class="noindent" >
+<!--l. 1728--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">6.3 </span> <a
id="x1-480006.3"></a>User Profile is Home</h4>
-<!--l. 1730--><p class="noindent" >The Windows counterpart of a Unix home directory is the <span class="obeylines-h"><span class="verb"><span
+<!--l. 1731--><p class="noindent" >The Windows counterpart of a Unix home directory is the <span class="obeylines-h"><span class="verb"><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">%USERPROFILE%</span></span></span> directory. Under Windows Vista
and later it is <span class="obeylines-h"><span class="verb"><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">C:\Users\<username></span></span></span>. In the <span
@@ -3286,11 +3286,11 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">texmf.cnf </span>file, and Kpathsea in general, <span class="obeylines-h"><span class="verb"><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">~</span></span></span> will expand
appropriately on both Windows and Unix.
-</p><!--l. 1737--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 1738--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">6.4 </span> <a
id="x1-490006.4"></a>The Windows registry</h4>
-<!--l. 1740--><p class="noindent" >Windows stores nearly all configuration data in its registry. The registry contains a set of hierarchically
+<!--l. 1741--><p class="noindent" >Windows stores nearly all configuration data in its registry. The registry contains a set of hierarchically
organized keys, with several root keys. The most important ones for installation programs are
<span class="path"><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">HKEY_CURRENT_USER</span></span> and <span class="path"><span
@@ -3302,27 +3302,27 @@
href="#x1-480006.3">6.3<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:winhome --></a>). <span class="path"><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">HKLM</span></span> is normally in a subdirectory of the Windows
directory.
-</p><!--l. 1748--><p class="indent" > In some cases, system information could be obtained from environment variables but for other information,
+</p><!--l. 1749--><p class="indent" > In some cases, system information could be obtained from environment variables but for other information,
for example the location of shortcuts, it is necessary to consult the registry. Setting environment variables
permanently also requires registry access.
-</p><!--l. 1754--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 1755--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">6.5 </span> <a
id="x1-500006.5"></a>Windows permissions</h4>
-<!--l. 1757--><p class="noindent" >In later versions of Windows, a distinction is made between regular users and administrators, where only the
+<!--l. 1758--><p class="noindent" >In later versions of Windows, a distinction is made between regular users and administrators, where only the
latter have free access to almost the entire operating system. We have made an effort to make TeX Live
installable without administrative privileges.
-</p><!--l. 1762--><p class="indent" > If the installer is started with administrative permissions, there is an option to install for all users. If
+</p><!--l. 1763--><p class="indent" > If the installer is started with administrative permissions, there is an option to install for all users. If
this option is chosen, shortcuts are created for all users, and the system search path is modified.
Otherwise, shortcuts and menu entries are created for the current user, and the user search path is
modified.
-</p><!--l. 1768--><p class="indent" > Regardless of administrator status, the default root of TeX Live proposed by the installer is always
+</p><!--l. 1769--><p class="indent" > Regardless of administrator status, the default root of TeX Live proposed by the installer is always
under <span class="obeylines-h"><span class="verb"><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">%SystemDrive%</span></span></span>. The installer always tests whether the root is writable for the current
user.
-</p><!--l. 1772--><p class="indent" > A problem may arise if the user is not an administrator and TeX already exists in the search path. Since
+</p><!--l. 1773--><p class="indent" > A problem may arise if the user is not an administrator and TeX already exists in the search path. Since
the effective search path consists of the system search path followed by the user search path, the new TeX Live
would never get precedence. As a fallback, the installer creates a shortcut to the command-prompt in
which the new TeX Live binary directory is prepended to the local search path. The new TeX
@@ -3329,27 +3329,27 @@
Live will be always usable from within such a command-prompt. The shortcut for TeXworks, if
installed, also prepends TeX Live to the search path, so it should also be immune to this path
problem.
-</p><!--l. 1782--><p class="indent" > You should be aware that even if you are logged in as administrator, you need to explicitly ask for
+</p><!--l. 1783--><p class="indent" > You should be aware that even if you are logged in as administrator, you need to explicitly ask for
administrator privileges. In fact, there is not much point in logging in as administrator. Instead,
right-clicking on the program or shortcut that you want to run usually gives you a choice ‘Run as
administrator’.
-</p><!--l. 1789--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 1790--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">6.6 </span> <a
id="x1-510006.6"></a>Increasing maximum memory on Windows and Cygwin</h4>
-<!--l. 1792--><p class="noindent" >Windows and Cygwin (see section <a
+<!--l. 1793--><p class="noindent" >Windows and Cygwin (see section <a
href="#x1-190003.1.4">3.1.4<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:cygwin --></a> for Cygwin installation specifics) users may find that they run out of
memory when running some of the programs shipped with TeX Live. For example, <span
class="ec-lmss-10">asy </span>might run out of
memory if you try to allocate an array of 25,000,000 reals, and LuaTeX might run out of memory if you try to
process a document with a lot of big fonts.
-</p><!--l. 1799--><p class="indent" > For Cygwin, you can increase the amount of available memory by following the instructions in the Cygwin
+</p><!--l. 1800--><p class="indent" > For Cygwin, you can increase the amount of available memory by following the instructions in the Cygwin
User’s Guide (<a
href="https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-maxmem.html" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-maxmem.html</span></a>).
-</p><!--l. 1803--><p class="indent" > For Windows, you have to create a file, say <span
+</p><!--l. 1804--><p class="indent" > For Windows, you have to create a file, say <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">moremem.reg</span>, with these four lines:
-</p><!--l. 1806--><p class="indent" >
+</p><!--l. 1807--><p class="indent" >
</p>
<div class="fancyvrb" id="fancyvrb13"><a
id="x1-51002r1"></a><span
@@ -3363,36 +3363,36 @@
class="ec-lmtt-9">[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cygwin]</span><br class="fancyvrb" /><a
id="x1-51008r4"></a><span
class="ec-lmtt-9">"heap_chunk_in_mb"=dword:ffffff00</span></div>
-<!--l. 1813--><p class="noindent" >and then execute the command <span
+<!--l. 1814--><p class="noindent" >and then execute the command <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">regedit /s moremem.reg </span>as administrator. (If you want to change memory
only for the current user instead of system-wide, use <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">HKEY_CURRENT_USER</span>.)
-</p><!--l. 1818--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 1819--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h3 class="sectionHead"><span class="titlemark">7 </span> <a
id="x1-520007"></a>A user’s guide to Web2C</h3>
-<!--l. 1820--><p class="noindent" >Web2C is an integrated collection of TeX-related programs: TeX itself, Metafont, MetaPost, BibTeX, etc.
+<!--l. 1821--><p class="noindent" >Web2C is an integrated collection of TeX-related programs: TeX itself, Metafont, MetaPost, BibTeX, etc.
It is the heart of TeX Live. The home page for Web2C, with the current manual and more, is
<a
href="https://tug.org/web2c" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">https://tug.org/web2c</span></a>.
-</p><!--l. 1825--><p class="indent" > A bit of history: The original implementation was by Tomas Rokicki who, in 1987, developed a first
+</p><!--l. 1826--><p class="indent" > A bit of history: The original implementation was by Tomas Rokicki who, in 1987, developed a first
TeX-to-C system based on change files under Unix, which were primarily the original work of Howard
Trickey and Pavel Curtis. Tim Morgan became the maintainer of the system, and during this period
the name changed to Web-to-C. In 1990, Karl Berry took over the work, assisted by dozens of
additional contributors, and in 1997 he handed the baton to Olaf Weber, who returned it to Karl in
2006.
-</p><!--l. 1834--><p class="indent" > The Web2C system runs on Unix, 32-bit Windows systems, Mac OS X, and other operating systems.
+</p><!--l. 1835--><p class="indent" > The Web2C system runs on Unix, 32-bit Windows systems, Mac OS X, and other operating systems.
It uses Knuth’s original sources for TeX and other basic programs written in the <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">WEB </span>literate
programming system and translates them into C source code. The core TeX programs handled in this way
are:
-</p><!--l. 1840--><p class="indent" >
+</p><!--l. 1841--><p class="indent" >
</p><dl class="list1"><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-10">bibtex</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1841--><p class="noindent" >Maintaining bibliographies.
+ <!--l. 1842--><p class="noindent" >Maintaining bibliographies.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
@@ -3399,128 +3399,128 @@
<span
class="ec-lmss-10">dvicopy</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1842--><p class="noindent" >Expands virtual font references in DVI files.
+ <!--l. 1843--><p class="noindent" >Expands virtual font references in DVI files.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-10">dvitomp</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1843--><p class="noindent" >DVI to MPX (MetaPost pictures).
+ <!--l. 1844--><p class="noindent" >DVI to MPX (MetaPost pictures).
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-10">dvitype</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1844--><p class="noindent" >DVI to human-readable text.
+ <!--l. 1845--><p class="noindent" >DVI to human-readable text.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-10">gftodvi</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1845--><p class="noindent" >Generic font proofsheets.
+ <!--l. 1846--><p class="noindent" >Generic font proofsheets.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-10">gftopk</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1846--><p class="noindent" >Generic to packed fonts.
+ <!--l. 1847--><p class="noindent" >Generic to packed fonts.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-10">gftype</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1847--><p class="noindent" >GF to human-readable text.
+ <!--l. 1848--><p class="noindent" >GF to human-readable text.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-10">mf </span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1848--><p class="noindent" >Creating typeface families.
+ <!--l. 1849--><p class="noindent" >Creating typeface families.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-10">mft</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1849--><p class="noindent" >Prettyprinting Metafont source.
+ <!--l. 1850--><p class="noindent" >Prettyprinting Metafont source.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-10">mpost</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1850--><p class="noindent" >Creating technical diagrams.
+ <!--l. 1851--><p class="noindent" >Creating technical diagrams.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-10">patgen</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1851--><p class="noindent" >Creating hyphenation patterns.
+ <!--l. 1852--><p class="noindent" >Creating hyphenation patterns.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-10">pktogf</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1852--><p class="noindent" >Packed to generic fonts.
+ <!--l. 1853--><p class="noindent" >Packed to generic fonts.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-10">pktype</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1853--><p class="noindent" >PK to human-readable text.
+ <!--l. 1854--><p class="noindent" >PK to human-readable text.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-10">pltotf</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1854--><p class="noindent" >Plain text property list to TFM.
+ <!--l. 1855--><p class="noindent" >Plain text property list to TFM.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-10">pooltype</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1855--><p class="noindent" >Display <span
+ <!--l. 1856--><p class="noindent" >Display <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">WEB </span>pool files.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-10">tangle</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1856--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 1857--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">WEB </span>to Pascal.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-10">tex </span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1857--><p class="noindent" >Typesetting.
+ <!--l. 1858--><p class="noindent" >Typesetting.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-10">tftopl</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1858--><p class="noindent" >TFM to plain text property list.
+ <!--l. 1859--><p class="noindent" >TFM to plain text property list.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-10">vftovp</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1859--><p class="noindent" >Virtual font to virtual property list.
+ <!--l. 1860--><p class="noindent" >Virtual font to virtual property list.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-10">vptovf</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1860--><p class="noindent" >Virtual property list to virtual font.
+ <!--l. 1861--><p class="noindent" >Virtual property list to virtual font.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-10">weave</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1861--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 1862--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">WEB </span>to TeX.</p></dd></dl>
-<!--l. 1864--><p class="noindent" >The precise functions and syntax of these programs are described in the documentation of the individual
+<!--l. 1865--><p class="noindent" >The precise functions and syntax of these programs are described in the documentation of the individual
packages and of Web2C itself. However, knowing a few principles governing the whole family of programs will
help you take advantage of your Web2C installation.
-</p><!--l. 1869--><p class="indent" > All programs honor these standard GNU options:
+</p><!--l. 1870--><p class="indent" > All programs honor these standard GNU options:
</p><dl class="list1"><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">--help</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1871--><p class="noindent" >print basic usage summary.
+ <!--l. 1872--><p class="noindent" >print basic usage summary.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">--version</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1872--><p class="noindent" >print version information, then exit.</p></dd></dl>
-<!--l. 1875--><p class="indent" > And most also honor:
+ <!--l. 1873--><p class="noindent" >print version information, then exit.</p></dd></dl>
+<!--l. 1876--><p class="indent" > And most also honor:
</p><dl class="list1"><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">--verbose</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1877--><p class="noindent" >print detailed progress report.</p></dd></dl>
-<!--l. 1880--><p class="indent" > For locating files the Web2C programs use the path searching library Kpathsea (<a
+ <!--l. 1878--><p class="noindent" >print detailed progress report.</p></dd></dl>
+<!--l. 1881--><p class="indent" > For locating files the Web2C programs use the path searching library Kpathsea (<a
href="https://tug.org/kpathsea" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">https://tug.org/kpathsea</span></a>).
This library uses a combination of environment variables and configuration files to optimize searching the
@@ -3529,12 +3529,12 @@
searches, the root of each tree has a file <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">ls-R</span>, containing an entry showing the name and relative pathname for
all files under that root.
-</p><!--l. 1891--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 1892--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">7.1 </span> <a
id="x1-530007.1"></a>Kpathsea path searching</h4>
-<!--l. 1894--><p class="noindent" >Let us first describe the generic path searching mechanism of the Kpathsea library.
-</p><!--l. 1897--><p class="indent" > We call a <span
+<!--l. 1895--><p class="noindent" >Let us first describe the generic path searching mechanism of the Kpathsea library.
+</p><!--l. 1898--><p class="indent" > We call a <span
class="ec-lmri-10">search path </span>a colon- or semicolon-separated list of <span
class="ec-lmri-10">path elements</span>, which are basically directory
names. A search path can come from (a combination of) many sources. To look up a file ‘<span
@@ -3544,11 +3544,11 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">./my-file</span>, then <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">/dir/my-file</span>,
returning the first match (or possibly all matches).
-</p><!--l. 1905--><p class="indent" > In order to adapt optimally to all operating systems’ conventions, on non-Unix systems Kpathsea can use
+</p><!--l. 1906--><p class="indent" > In order to adapt optimally to all operating systems’ conventions, on non-Unix systems Kpathsea can use
filename separators different from colon (‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">:</span>’) and slash (‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">/</span>’).
-</p><!--l. 1909--><p class="indent" > To check a particular path element <span
+</p><!--l. 1910--><p class="indent" > To check a particular path element <span
class="ec-lmro-10">p</span>, Kpathsea first checks if a prebuilt database (see “Filename database”
on page <a
href="#x1-610007.2">66<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:filename-database --></a>) applies to <span
@@ -3555,23 +3555,23 @@
class="ec-lmro-10">p</span>, i.e., if the database is in a directory that is a prefix of <span
class="ec-lmro-10">p</span>. If so, the path specification
is matched against the contents of the database.
-</p><!--l. 1915--><p class="indent" > Although the simplest and most common path element is a directory name, Kpathsea supports additional
+</p><!--l. 1916--><p class="indent" > Although the simplest and most common path element is a directory name, Kpathsea supports additional
features in search paths: layered default values, environment variable names, config file values, users’ home
directories, and recursive subdirectory searching. Thus, we say that Kpathsea <span
class="ec-lmri-10">expands </span>a path element, meaning
it transforms all the specifications into basic directory name or names. This is described in the following
sections in the same order as it takes place.
-</p><!--l. 1924--><p class="indent" > Note that if the filename being searched for is absolute or explicitly relative, i.e., starts with ‘<span
+</p><!--l. 1925--><p class="indent" > Note that if the filename being searched for is absolute or explicitly relative, i.e., starts with ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">/</span>’ or ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">./</span>’ or
‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">../</span>’, Kpathsea simply checks if that file exists.
-</p><!--l. 1938--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 1939--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">7.1.1 </span> <a
id="x1-540007.1.1"></a>Path sources</h5>
-<!--l. 1941--><p class="noindent" >A search path can come from many sources. In the order in which Kpathsea uses them:
-</p><!--l. 1944--><p class="indent" >
+<!--l. 1942--><p class="noindent" >A search path can come from many sources. In the order in which Kpathsea uses them:
+</p><!--l. 1945--><p class="indent" >
</p><ol class="enumerate1" >
<li
class="enumerate" id="x1-54002x1">A user-set environment variable, for instance, <span
@@ -3597,26 +3597,26 @@
</li>
<li
class="enumerate" id="x1-54008x4">The compile-time default.</li></ol>
-<!--l. 1957--><p class="noindent" >You can see each of these values for a given search path by using the debugging options (see “Debugging actions”
+<!--l. 1958--><p class="noindent" >You can see each of these values for a given search path by using the debugging options (see “Debugging actions”
on page <a
href="#x1-650007.2.4">69<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:debugging --></a>).
-</p><!--l. 1961--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 1962--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">7.1.2 </span> <a
id="x1-550007.1.2"></a>Config files</h5>
-<!--l. 1963--><p class="noindent" >Kpathsea reads <span
+<!--l. 1964--><p class="noindent" >Kpathsea reads <span
class="ec-lmri-10">runtime configuration files </span>named <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">texmf.cnf </span>for search path and other definitions. The search
path <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">TEXMFCNF </span>is used to look for these files, but we do not recommend setting this (or any) environment
variable to override the system directories.
-</p><!--l. 1969--><p class="indent" > Instead, normal installation results in a file <span
+</p><!--l. 1970--><p class="indent" > Instead, normal installation results in a file <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">.../2021/texmf.cnf</span>. If you must make changes to the
defaults (not normally necessary), this is the place to put them. The main configuration file is in
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">.../2021/texmf-dist/web2c/texmf.cnf</span>. You should not edit this latter file, as your changes will be lost
when the distributed version is updated.
-</p><!--l. 1976--><p class="indent" > As an aside, if you merely wish to add a personal directory to a particular search path, setting an
+</p><!--l. 1977--><p class="indent" > As an aside, if you merely wish to add a personal directory to a particular search path, setting an
environment variable is a reasonable method:
@@ -3625,7 +3625,7 @@
<div class="fancyvrb" id="fancyvrb14"><a
id="x1-55002r1"></a> TEXINPUTS=.:/my/macro/dir:</div>
</div>
-<!--l. 1981--><p class="nopar" >To keep the setting maintainable and portable over the years, use a trailing ‘<span
+<!--l. 1982--><p class="nopar" >To keep the setting maintainable and portable over the years, use a trailing ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">:</span>’ (‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">;</span>’ on Windows) to insert the
system paths, instead of trying to write them all out explicitly (see section <a
@@ -3633,7 +3633,7 @@
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">TEXMFHOME </span>tree (see section <a
href="#x1-250003.2.3">3.2.3<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:directories --></a>).
-</p><!--l. 1988--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 1989--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmri-10">All </span><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">texmf.cnf </span>files in the search path will be read and definitions in earlier files override those in later
files. For example, with a search path of <span class="obeylines-h"><span class="verb"><span
@@ -3689,7 +3689,7 @@
values are related to path expansion, and since various special characters are used in expansion
(see section <a
href="#x1-600007.1.7">7.1.7<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:cnf-special-chars --></a>), such as braces and commas, they cannot be used in directory names.
- <!--l. 2027--><p class="noindent" >A ‘<span
+ <!--l. 2028--><p class="noindent" >A ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">;</span>’ in <span
class="ec-lmro-10">value </span>is translated to ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">:</span>’ if running under Unix, in order to have a single <span
@@ -3697,7 +3697,7 @@
can support both Unix and Windows systems. This translation happens with any value, not just
search paths, but fortunately in practice ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">;</span>’ is not needed in other values.
- </p><!--l. 2033--><p class="noindent" >The <span
+ </p><!--l. 2034--><p class="noindent" >The <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">$</span><span
class="ec-lmro-10">var</span><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">.</span><span
@@ -3706,8 +3706,8 @@
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">All definitions are read before anything is expanded, so variables can be referenced before they
are defined.</li></ul>
-<!--l. 2040--><p class="noindent" >A configuration file fragment illustrating most of these points is shown below:
-</p><!--l. 2044--><p class="indent" >
+<!--l. 2041--><p class="noindent" >A configuration file fragment illustrating most of these points is shown below:
+</p><!--l. 2045--><p class="indent" >
</p>
<div class="fancyvrb" id="fancyvrb15">
<a
@@ -3764,13 +3764,13 @@
class="ec-lmtt-9"> =</span><span
class="ec-lmtt-9"> .;$TEXMF/{etex,tex}/{eplain,plain,generic;}//</span>
</div>
-<!--l. 2049--><p class="noindent" >
+<!--l. 2050--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">7.1.3 </span> <a
id="x1-560007.1.3"></a>Path expansion</h5>
-<!--l. 2052--><p class="noindent" >Kpathsea recognizes certain special characters and constructions in search paths, similar to those available in
+<!--l. 2053--><p class="noindent" >Kpathsea recognizes certain special characters and constructions in search paths, similar to those available in
Unix shells. As a general example, the path <span class="obeylines-h"><span class="verb"><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">~$USER/{foo,bar}//baz</span></span></span>, expands to all subdirectories under
directories <span
@@ -3782,7 +3782,7 @@
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">7.1.4 </span> <a
id="x1-570007.1.4"></a>Default expansion</h5>
-<!--l. 2063--><p class="noindent" >If the highest-priority search path (see “Path sources” on page <a
+<!--l. 2064--><p class="noindent" >If the highest-priority search path (see “Path sources” on page <a
href="#x1-540007.1.1">60<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:path-sources --></a>) contains an <span
class="ec-lmri-10">extra colon </span>(i.e., leading,
trailing, or doubled), Kpathsea inserts at that point the next-highest-priority search path that is defined. If
@@ -3815,7 +3815,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10"> </span><span
class="ec-lmtt-10"> /home/karl:.:$TEXMF//tex</span></div>
</div>
-<!--l. 2084--><p class="indent" > Since it would be useless to insert the default value in more than one place, Kpathsea changes only one
+<!--l. 2085--><p class="indent" > Since it would be useless to insert the default value in more than one place, Kpathsea changes only one
extra ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">:</span>’ and leaves any others in place. It checks first for a leading ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">:</span>’, then a trailing ‘<span
@@ -3822,11 +3822,11 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">:</span>’, then a doubled
‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">:</span>’.
-</p><!--l. 2089--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 2090--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">7.1.5 </span> <a
id="x1-580007.1.5"></a>Brace expansion</h5>
-<!--l. 2092--><p class="noindent" >A useful feature is brace expansion, which means that, for instance, <span class="obeylines-h"><span class="verb"><span
+<!--l. 2093--><p class="noindent" >A useful feature is brace expansion, which means that, for instance, <span class="obeylines-h"><span class="verb"><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">v{a,b}w</span></span></span> expands to <span class="obeylines-h"><span class="verb"><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">vaw:vbw</span></span></span>.
Nesting is allowed. This is used to implement multiple TeX hierarchies, by assigning a brace list
@@ -3841,7 +3841,7 @@
<div class="fancyvrb" id="fancyvrb16"><a
id="x1-58002r1"></a> TEXMF = {$TEXMFVAR,$TEXMFHOME,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFDIST}</div>
</div>
-<!--l. 2100--><p class="nopar" >We then use this to define, for example, the TeX input path:
+<!--l. 2101--><p class="nopar" >We then use this to define, for example, the TeX input path:
</p>
@@ -3849,7 +3849,7 @@
<div class="fancyvrb" id="fancyvrb17"><a
id="x1-58004r1"></a> TEXINPUTS = .;$TEXMF/tex//</div>
</div>
-<!--l. 2104--><p class="nopar" >which means that, after looking in the current directory, the <span
+<!--l. 2105--><p class="nopar" >which means that, after looking in the current directory, the <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">$TEXMFVAR/tex</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">$TEXMFHOME/tex</span>,
<span
@@ -3857,11 +3857,11 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">$TEXMFDIST/tex </span>trees will be searched (the last two using <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">ls-R </span>data base
files).
-</p><!--l. 2111--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 2112--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">7.1.6 </span> <a
id="x1-590007.1.6"></a>Subdirectory expansion</h5>
-<!--l. 2114--><p class="noindent" >Two or more consecutive slashes in a path element following a directory <span
+<!--l. 2115--><p class="noindent" >Two or more consecutive slashes in a path element following a directory <span
class="ec-lmro-10">d </span>is replaced by all subdirectories of <span
class="ec-lmro-10">d</span>:
first those subdirectories directly under <span
@@ -3868,7 +3868,7 @@
class="ec-lmro-10">d</span>, then the subsubdirectories under those, and so on. At each level, the
order in which the directories are searched is <span
class="ec-lmri-10">unspecified</span>.
-</p><!--l. 2120--><p class="indent" > If you specify any filename components after the ‘<span
+</p><!--l. 2121--><p class="indent" > If you specify any filename components after the ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">//</span>’, only subdirectories with matching components are
included. For example, ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">/a//b</span>’ expands into directories <span
@@ -3878,98 +3878,98 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">/a/b/c</span>
or <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">/a/1</span>.
-</p><!--l. 2125--><p class="indent" > Multiple ‘<span
+</p><!--l. 2126--><p class="indent" > Multiple ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">//</span>’ constructs in a path are possible, but ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">//</span>’ at the beginning of a path is ignored.
-</p><!--l. 2128--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 2129--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">7.1.7 </span> <a
id="x1-600007.1.7"></a>Summary of special characters in <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">texmf.cnf </span>files</h5>
-<!--l. 2131--><p class="noindent" >The following list summarizes the special characters and constructs in Kpathsea configuration
+<!--l. 2132--><p class="noindent" >The following list summarizes the special characters and constructs in Kpathsea configuration
files.
-</p><!--l. 2136--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 2137--><p class="noindent" >
</p><dl class="list1"><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">:</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2137--><p class="noindent" >Separator in path specification; at the beginning or the end of a path, or doubled in the middle,
+ <!--l. 2138--><p class="noindent" >Separator in path specification; at the beginning or the end of a path, or doubled in the middle,
it substitutes the default path expansion.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">;</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2140--><p class="noindent" >Separator on non-Unix systems (acts like <span
+ <!--l. 2141--><p class="noindent" >Separator on non-Unix systems (acts like <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">:</span>).
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">$</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2141--><p class="noindent" >Variable expansion.
+ <!--l. 2142--><p class="noindent" >Variable expansion.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">~</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2142--><p class="noindent" >Represents the user’s home directory.
+ <!--l. 2143--><p class="noindent" >Represents the user’s home directory.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">{...}</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2143--><p class="noindent" >Brace expansion.
+ <!--l. 2144--><p class="noindent" >Brace expansion.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">,</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2144--><p class="noindent" >Separates items in brace expansion.
+ <!--l. 2145--><p class="noindent" >Separates items in brace expansion.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">//</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2145--><p class="noindent" >Subdirectory expansion (can occur anywhere in a path, except at its beginning).
+ <!--l. 2146--><p class="noindent" >Subdirectory expansion (can occur anywhere in a path, except at its beginning).
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">%</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2147--><p class="noindent" >Start of comment.
+ <!--l. 2148--><p class="noindent" >Start of comment.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2148--><p class="noindent" >At the end of a line, continuation character to allow multi-line entries.
+ <!--l. 2149--><p class="noindent" >At the end of a line, continuation character to allow multi-line entries.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">!!</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2150--><p class="noindent" >Search <span
+ <!--l. 2151--><p class="noindent" >Search <span
class="ec-lmri-10">only </span>database to locate file, <span
class="ec-lmri-10">do not </span>search the disk.</p></dd></dl>
-<!--l. 2154--><p class="indent" > Exactly when a character will be considered special or act as itself depends on the context in which it is
+<!--l. 2155--><p class="indent" > Exactly when a character will be considered special or act as itself depends on the context in which it is
used. The rules are inherent in the multiple levels of interpretation of the configuration (parsing, expansion,
search, …) and so cannot be concisely stated, unfortunately. There is no general escape mechanism; in
particular, ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\</span>’ is not an “escape character” in <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">texmf.cnf </span>files.
-</p><!--l. 2161--><p class="indent" > When it comes choosing directory names for installation, it is safest to avoid them all.
-</p><!--l. 2164--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 2162--><p class="indent" > When it comes choosing directory names for installation, it is safest to avoid them all.
+</p><!--l. 2165--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">7.2 </span> <a
id="x1-610007.2"></a>Filename databases</h4>
-<!--l. 2167--><p class="noindent" >Kpathsea goes to some lengths to minimize disk accesses for searches. Nevertheless, in the standard TeX Live,
+<!--l. 2168--><p class="noindent" >Kpathsea goes to some lengths to minimize disk accesses for searches. Nevertheless, in the standard TeX Live,
or at any installation with enough directories, searching every possible directory for a given file will take
an excessively long time. Therefore, Kpathsea can use an externally-built plain text “database”
file named <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">ls-R </span>that maps files to directories, thus avoiding the need to exhaustively search the
disk.
-</p><!--l. 2175--><p class="indent" > A second database file <span
+</p><!--l. 2176--><p class="indent" > A second database file <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">aliases </span>allows you to give additional names to the files listed in <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">ls-R</span>.
-</p><!--l. 2178--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 2179--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">7.2.1 </span> <a
id="x1-620007.2.1"></a>The filename database</h5>
-<!--l. 2181--><p class="noindent" >As explained above, the name of the main filename database must be <span
+<!--l. 2182--><p class="noindent" >As explained above, the name of the main filename database must be <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">ls-R</span>. You can put one at the root of
each TeX hierarchy in your installation that you wish to be searched (<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">$TEXMF </span>by default). Kpathsea looks for
@@ -3976,7 +3976,7 @@
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">ls-R </span>files along the <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">TEXMFDBS </span>path.
-</p><!--l. 2187--><p class="indent" > The recommended way to create and maintain ‘<span
+</p><!--l. 2188--><p class="indent" > The recommended way to create and maintain ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">ls-R</span>’ is to run the <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">mktexlsr </span>script included with the
distribution. It is invoked by the various ‘<span
@@ -4003,16 +4003,16 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">cron</span>, so that it is
automatically updated when the installed files change, such as after installing or updating a LaTeX
package.
-<!--l. 2200--><p class="indent" > If a file is not found in the database, by default Kpathsea goes ahead and searches the disk. If a particular
+<!--l. 2201--><p class="indent" > If a file is not found in the database, by default Kpathsea goes ahead and searches the disk. If a particular
path element begins with ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">!!</span>’, however, <span
class="ec-lmri-10">only </span>the database will be searched for that element, never the
disk.
-</p><!--l. 2206--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 2207--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">7.2.2 </span> <a
id="x1-630007.2.2"></a>kpsewhich: Standalone path searching</h5>
-<!--l. 2209--><p class="noindent" >The <span
+<!--l. 2210--><p class="noindent" >The <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">kpsewhich </span>program exercises path searching independent of any particular application. This can be useful
as a sort of <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">find </span>program to locate files in TeX hierarchies (this is used heavily in the distributed
@@ -4038,12 +4038,12 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">-</span>’ or ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">--</span>’, and any unambiguous abbreviation is
accepted.
-<!--l. 2220--><p class="indent" > Kpathsea looks up each non-option argument on the command line as a filename, and returns the first file
+<!--l. 2221--><p class="indent" > Kpathsea looks up each non-option argument on the command line as a filename, and returns the first file
found. There is no option to return all the files with a particular name (you can run the Unix ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">find</span>’ utility for
that).
-</p><!--l. 2225--><p class="indent" > The most common options are described next.
-</p><!--l. 2227--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 2226--><p class="indent" > The most common options are described next.
+</p><!--l. 2228--><p class="noindent" >
</p><dl class="list1"><dt class="list">
@@ -4051,7 +4051,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">--dpi=</span><span
class="ec-lmro-10">num</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2228--><p class="noindent" > Set the resolution to <span
+ <!--l. 2229--><p class="noindent" > Set the resolution to <span
class="ec-lmro-10">num</span>; this only affects ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">gf</span>’ and ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">pk</span>’ lookups. ‘<span
@@ -4063,7 +4063,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">--format=</span><span
class="ec-lmro-10">name</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2233--><p class="noindent" ><br
+ <!--l. 2234--><p class="noindent" ><br
class="newline" />Set the format for lookup to <span
class="ec-lmro-10">name</span>. By default, the format is guessed from the filename. For
formats which do not have an associated unambiguous suffix, such as MetaPost support files and
@@ -4079,7 +4079,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">--mode=</span><span
class="ec-lmro-10">string</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2241--><p class="noindent" ><br
+ <!--l. 2242--><p class="noindent" ><br
class="newline" />Set the mode name to <span
class="ec-lmro-10">string</span>; this only affects ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">gf</span>’ and ‘<span
@@ -4089,7 +4089,7 @@
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">--must-exist</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2244--><p class="noindent" ><br
+ <!--l. 2245--><p class="noindent" ><br
class="newline" />Do everything possible to find the files, notably including searching the disk. By default, only the
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">ls-R </span>database is checked, in the interest of efficiency.
@@ -4098,7 +4098,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">--path=</span><span
class="ec-lmro-10">string</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2248--><p class="noindent" ><br
+ <!--l. 2249--><p class="noindent" ><br
class="newline" />Search along the path <span
class="ec-lmro-10">string </span>(colon-separated as usual), instead of guessing the search path from
the filename. ‘<span
@@ -4111,7 +4111,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">--progname=</span><span
class="ec-lmro-10">name</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2253--><p class="noindent" ><br
+ <!--l. 2254--><p class="noindent" ><br
class="newline" />Set the program name to <span
class="ec-lmro-10">name</span>. This can affect the search paths via the <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">.</span><span
@@ -4123,7 +4123,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">--show-path=</span><span
class="ec-lmro-10">name</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2258--><p class="noindent" ><br
+ <!--l. 2259--><p class="noindent" ><br
class="newline" />shows the path used for file lookups of file type <span
class="ec-lmro-10">name</span>. Either a filename extension (<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">.pk</span>, <span
@@ -4135,14 +4135,14 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">--debug=</span><span
class="ec-lmro-10">num</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2262--><p class="noindent" ><br
+ <!--l. 2263--><p class="noindent" ><br
class="newline" />sets the debugging options to <span
class="ec-lmro-10">num</span>.</p></dd></dl>
-<!--l. 2267--><p class="noindent" >
+<!--l. 2268--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">7.2.3 </span> <a
id="x1-640007.2.3"></a>Examples of use</h5>
-<!--l. 2270--><p class="noindent" >Let us now have a look at Kpathsea in action. Here’s a straightforward search:
+<!--l. 2271--><p class="noindent" >Let us now have a look at Kpathsea in action. Here’s a straightforward search:
</p>
<div class="alltt">
@@ -4216,7 +4216,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10"> /usr/local/texmf-dist/bibtex/bib/beebe/tugboat.bib</span>
</div>
</div>
-<!--l. 2295--><p class="indent" > By the way, that last is a BibTeX bibliography database for <span
+<!--l. 2296--><p class="indent" > By the way, that last is a BibTeX bibliography database for <span
class="ec-lmro-10">TUGboat </span>articles.
</p>
<div class="alltt">
@@ -4269,7 +4269,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">.pk</span>
files using the script <span
class="ec-lmss-10">mktexpk</span>.
-<!--l. 2324--><p class="indent" > Next we turn our attention to <span
+<!--l. 2325--><p class="indent" > Next we turn our attention to <span
class="ec-lmss-10">dvips</span>’s header and configuration files. We first look at one of the commonly
used files, the general prologue <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">tex.pro </span>for TeX support, before turning our attention to the generic
@@ -4316,7 +4316,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10"> /usr/local/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/updmap/psfonts.map</span>
</div>
</div>
-<!--l. 2342--><p class="indent" > We now take a closer look at the URW Times PostScript support files. The prefix for these in the standard
+<!--l. 2343--><p class="indent" > We now take a closer look at the URW Times PostScript support files. The prefix for these in the standard
font naming scheme is ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">utm</span>’. The first file we look at is the configuration file, which contains the name of the
map file: </p><div class="alltt">
@@ -4422,22 +4422,22 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10"> /usr/local/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/urw/times/utmr8a.pfb</span>
</div>
</div>
-<!--l. 2381--><p class="indent" > It should be evident from these examples how you can easily locate the whereabouts of a given file. This is
+<!--l. 2382--><p class="indent" > It should be evident from these examples how you can easily locate the whereabouts of a given file. This is
especially important if you suspect that the wrong version of a file is picked up somehow, since <span
class="ec-lmss-10">kpsewhich </span>will
show you the first file encountered.
-</p><!--l. 2386--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 2387--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">7.2.4 </span> <a
id="x1-650007.2.4"></a>Debugging actions</h5>
-<!--l. 2389--><p class="noindent" >Sometimes it is necessary to investigate how a program resolves file references. To make this practical,
+<!--l. 2390--><p class="noindent" >Sometimes it is necessary to investigate how a program resolves file references. To make this practical,
Kpathsea offers various levels of debugging output:
-</p><!--l. 2393--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 2394--><p class="noindent" >
</p><dl class="list1"><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10"> 1 </span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2394--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 2395--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">stat </span>calls (disk lookups). When running with an up-to-date <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">ls-R </span>database this should almost
give no output.
@@ -4445,13 +4445,13 @@
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10"> 2 </span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2397--><p class="noindent" >References to hash tables (such as <span
+ <!--l. 2398--><p class="noindent" >References to hash tables (such as <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">ls-R </span>databases, map files, configuration files).
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10"> 4 </span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2399--><p class="noindent" >File open and close operations.
+ <!--l. 2400--><p class="noindent" >File open and close operations.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
@@ -4458,38 +4458,38 @@
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10"> 8 </span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2400--><p class="noindent" >General path information for file types searched by Kpathsea. This is useful to find out where a
+ <!--l. 2401--><p class="noindent" >General path information for file types searched by Kpathsea. This is useful to find out where a
particular path for the file was defined.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">16 </span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2403--><p class="noindent" >Directory list for each path element (only relevant for searches on disk).
+ <!--l. 2404--><p class="noindent" >Directory list for each path element (only relevant for searches on disk).
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">32 </span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2405--><p class="noindent" >File searches.
+ <!--l. 2406--><p class="noindent" >File searches.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">64 </span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2406--><p class="noindent" >Variable values.</p></dd></dl>
-<!--l. 2408--><p class="noindent" >A value of <span
+ <!--l. 2407--><p class="noindent" >Variable values.</p></dd></dl>
+<!--l. 2409--><p class="noindent" >A value of <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">-1 </span>will set all the above options; in practice, this is usually the most convenient.
-</p><!--l. 2411--><p class="indent" > Similarly, with the <span
+</p><!--l. 2412--><p class="indent" > Similarly, with the <span
class="ec-lmss-10">dvips </span>program, by setting a combination of debug switches, one can follow in detail
where files are being picked up from. Alternatively, when a file is not found, the debug trace shows in
which directories the program looks for the given file, so that one can get an indication what the
problem is.
-</p><!--l. 2417--><p class="indent" > Generally speaking, as most programs call the Kpathsea library internally, one can select a debug option by
+</p><!--l. 2418--><p class="indent" > Generally speaking, as most programs call the Kpathsea library internally, one can select a debug option by
using the <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">KPATHSEA_DEBUG </span>environment variable, and setting it to (a combination of) values as described in the
above list.
-</p><!--l. 2422--><p class="indent" > (Note for Windows users: it is not easy to redirect all messages to a file in this system. For diagnostic
+</p><!--l. 2423--><p class="indent" > (Note for Windows users: it is not easy to redirect all messages to a file in this system. For diagnostic
purposes you can temporarily <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">SET KPATHSEA_DEBUG_OUTPUT=err.log</span>).
-</p><!--l. 2426--><p class="indent" > Let us consider, as an example, a small LaTeX source file, <span
+</p><!--l. 2427--><p class="indent" > Let us consider, as an example, a small LaTeX source file, <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">hello-world.tex</span>, which contains the following
input.
@@ -4502,7 +4502,7 @@
id="x1-65006r3"></a> Hello World!<br class="fancyvrb" /><a
id="x1-65008r4"></a> \end{document}</div>
</div>
-<!--l. 2433--><p class="nopar" >This little file only uses the font <span
+<!--l. 2434--><p class="nopar" >This little file only uses the font <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">cmr10</span>, so let us look at how <span
class="ec-lmss-10">dvips </span>prepares the PostScript file
(we want to use the Type 1 version of the Computer Modern fonts, hence the option <span
@@ -4524,7 +4524,7 @@
the <span
class="ec-lmss-10">dvips </span>reference manual). The output (slightly rearranged) appears in Figure <a
href="#x1-65031r12">12<!--tex4ht:ref: fig:dvipsdbga --></a>.
-<!--l. 2445--><p class="indent" > <a
+<!--l. 2446--><p class="indent" > <a
id="x1-65031r12"></a></p><figure class="float"
>
@@ -4603,7 +4603,7 @@
</figure>
-<!--l. 2451--><p class="indent" > <span
+<!--l. 2452--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmss-10">dvips </span>starts by locating its working files. First, <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">texmf.cnf </span>is found, which gives the definitions of the
search paths for the other files, then the file database <span
@@ -4658,7 +4658,7 @@
contains declarations for commonly used PostScript fonts; see the last part of section <a
href="#x1-640007.2.3">7.2.3<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:examples-of-use --></a> for more details
about PostScript map file handling).
-<!--l. 2478--><p class="indent" > At this point <span
+<!--l. 2479--><p class="indent" > At this point <span
class="ec-lmss-10">dvips </span>identifies itself to the user: </p><div class="alltt">
<div class="obeylines-v">
@@ -4700,7 +4700,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-9"> /usr/local/texmf/dvips/base/texc.pro</span>
</div>
</div>
-<!--l. 2495--><p class="indent" > After having found the file in question, <span
+<!--l. 2496--><p class="indent" > After having found the file in question, <span
class="ec-lmss-10">dvips </span>outputs the date and time, and informs us that it will generate
the file <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">hello-world.ps</span>, then that it needs the font file <span
@@ -4793,16 +4793,16 @@
</div>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">7.3 </span> <a
id="x1-660007.3"></a>Runtime options</h4>
-<!--l. 2526--><p class="noindent" >Another useful feature of Web2C is its possibility to control a number of memory parameters (in particular,
+<!--l. 2527--><p class="noindent" >Another useful feature of Web2C is its possibility to control a number of memory parameters (in particular,
array sizes) via the runtime file <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">texmf.cnf </span>read by Kpathsea. The memory settings can be found in Part 3 of
that file in the TeX Live distribution. The more important are:
-</p><!--l. 2532--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 2533--><p class="noindent" >
</p><dl class="list1"><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">main_memory</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2533--><p class="noindent" >Total words of memory available, for TeX, Metafont and MetaPost. You must make a new format
+ <!--l. 2534--><p class="noindent" >Total words of memory available, for TeX, Metafont and MetaPost. You must make a new format
file for each different setting. For instance, you could generate a “huge” version of TeX, and call
the format file <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">hugetex.fmt</span>. Using the standard way of specifying the program name used by
@@ -4813,29 +4813,29 @@
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">extra_mem_bot</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2541--><p class="noindent" >Extra space for “large” TeX data structures: boxes, glue, breakpoints, etc. Especially useful if you
+ <!--l. 2542--><p class="noindent" >Extra space for “large” TeX data structures: boxes, glue, breakpoints, etc. Especially useful if you
use PI CTeX.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">font_mem_size</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2545--><p class="noindent" >Number of words for font information available for TeX. This is more or less the total size of all
+ <!--l. 2546--><p class="noindent" >Number of words for font information available for TeX. This is more or less the total size of all
TFM files read.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">hash_extra</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2548--><p class="noindent" >Additional space for the hash table of control sequence names; its default value is <span
+ <!--l. 2549--><p class="noindent" >Additional space for the hash table of control sequence names; its default value is <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">600000</span>.</p></dd></dl>
-<!--l. 2553--><p class="noindent" >This facility is no substitute for truly dynamic arrays and memory allocation, but since these are extremely
+<!--l. 2554--><p class="noindent" >This facility is no substitute for truly dynamic arrays and memory allocation, but since these are extremely
difficult to implement in the present TeX source, these runtime parameters provide a practical compromise
allowing some flexibility.
-</p><!--l. 2558--><p class="indent" > <a id="texmfdotdir"></a>
+</p><!--l. 2559--><p class="indent" > <a id="texmfdotdir"></a>
</p>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">7.4 </span> <a
id="x1-670007.4"></a><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">$TEXMFDOTDIR</span></h4>
-<!--l. 2562--><p class="noindent" >In various places above, we gave various search paths starting with <span
+<!--l. 2563--><p class="noindent" >In various places above, we gave various search paths starting with <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">. </span>(to search the current directory first), as
in </p><div class="alltt">
@@ -4844,7 +4844,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-9">TEXINPUTS=.;$TEXMF/tex//</span>
</div>
</div>
-<!--l. 2568--><p class="indent" > This is a simplification. The <span
+<!--l. 2569--><p class="indent" > This is a simplification. The <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">texmf.cnf </span>file we distribute in TeX Live uses <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">$TEXMFDOTDIR </span>instead of just
‘<span
@@ -4858,7 +4858,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">$TEXMF/tex//</span>. But
that’s minor; here we want to discuss the <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">$TEXMFDOTDIR </span>feature.)
-<!--l. 2577--><p class="indent" > The reason to use the variable <span
+<!--l. 2578--><p class="indent" > The reason to use the variable <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">$TEXMFDOTDIR </span>in the path definitions instead of simply ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">.</span>’ is purely so that
it can be overridden. For example, a complex document may have many source files arranged in many
@@ -4869,7 +4869,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">.// </span>by default; it’s usually
highly undesirable, and potentially insecure, to search through all subdirectories for an arbitrary
document.)
-</p><!--l. 2587--><p class="indent" > As another example, you may wish not to search the current directory at all, e.g., if you have arranged for
+</p><!--l. 2588--><p class="indent" > As another example, you may wish not to search the current directory at all, e.g., if you have arranged for
all the files to be found via explicit paths. You can set <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">$TEXMFDOTDIR </span>to, say, <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">/nonesuch </span>or any nonexistent
@@ -4876,15 +4876,15 @@
directory for this.
-</p><!--l. 2592--><p class="indent" > The default value of <span
+</p><!--l. 2593--><p class="indent" > The default value of <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">$TEXMFDOTDIR </span>is just ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">.</span>’, as set in our <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">texmf.cnf</span>.
-</p><!--l. 2595--><p class="indent" > <a id="ack"></a>
+</p><!--l. 2596--><p class="indent" > <a id="ack"></a>
</p>
<h3 class="sectionHead"><span class="titlemark">8 </span> <a
id="x1-680008"></a>Acknowledgements</h3>
-<!--l. 2598--><p class="noindent" >TeX Live is a joint effort by virtually all of the TeX user groups. This edition of TeX Live was overseen by Karl
+<!--l. 2599--><p class="noindent" >TeX Live is a joint effort by virtually all of the TeX user groups. This edition of TeX Live was overseen by Karl
Berry. The other principal contributors, past and present, are listed below.
</p>
<ul class="itemize1">
@@ -5038,7 +5038,7 @@
</li>
<li class="itemize">Hironobu Yamashita, for much work on pTeX and related support.
</li></ul>
-<!--l. 2752--><p class="indent" > Builders of the binaries: Marc Baudoin (<span
+<!--l. 2753--><p class="indent" > Builders of the binaries: Marc Baudoin (<span
class="ec-lmss-10">amd64-netbsd</span>, <span
class="ec-lmss-10">i386-netbsd</span>), Ken Brown (<span
class="ec-lmss-10">i386-cygwin</span>,
@@ -5062,7 +5062,7 @@
the TeX Live build process, see <a
href="https://tug.org/texlive/build.html" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">https://tug.org/texlive/build.html</span></a>.
-</p><!--l. 2770--><p class="indent" > Translators of this manual: Takuto Asakura (Japanese), Denis Bitouzé & Patrick Bideault (French),
+</p><!--l. 2771--><p class="indent" > Translators of this manual: Takuto Asakura (Japanese), Denis Bitouzé & Patrick Bideault (French),
Carlos Enriquez Figueras (Spanish), Jjgod Jiang, Jinsong Zhao, Yue Wang, & Helin Gai (Chinese), Nikola
Lečić (Serbian), Marco Pallante & Carla Maggi (Italian), Petr Sojka & Jan Busa (Czech/Slovak), Boris
Veytsman (Russian), Zofia Walczak (Polish), Uwe Ziegenhagen (German). The TeX Live documentation web
@@ -5069,17 +5069,17 @@
page is <a
href="https://tug.org/texlive/doc.html" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">https://tug.org/texlive/doc.html</span></a>.
-</p><!--l. 2783--><p class="indent" > Of course the most important acknowledgement must go to Donald Knuth, first for inventing TeX, and
+</p><!--l. 2784--><p class="indent" > Of course the most important acknowledgement must go to Donald Knuth, first for inventing TeX, and
then for giving it to the world.
-</p><!--l. 2787--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 2788--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h3 class="sectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9 </span> <a
id="x1-690009"></a>Release history</h3>
-<!--l. 2790--><p class="noindent" >
+<!--l. 2791--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1 </span> <a
id="x1-700009.1"></a>Past</h4>
-<!--l. 2792--><p class="noindent" >Discussion began in late 1993 when the Dutch TeX Users Group was starting work on its 4AllTeX CD for
+<!--l. 2793--><p class="noindent" >Discussion began in late 1993 when the Dutch TeX Users Group was starting work on its 4AllTeX CD for
MS-DOS users, and it was hoped at that time to issue a single, rational, CD for all systems. This was too
ambitious a target for the time, but it did spawn not only the very successful 4AllTeX CD, but also the TUG
Technical Council working group on a <span
@@ -5093,7 +5093,7 @@
working group’s deliberations. It was also clear that the success of the 4AllTeX CD showed that
Unix users would benefit from a similarly easy system, and this is the other main strand of TeX
Live.
-</p><!--l. 2808--><p class="indent" > We first undertook to make a new Unix-based TDS CD in the autumn of 1995, and quickly identified
+</p><!--l. 2809--><p class="indent" > We first undertook to make a new Unix-based TDS CD in the autumn of 1995, and quickly identified
Thomas Esser’s teTeX as the ideal setup, as it already had multi-platform support and was built with
portability across file systems in mind. Thomas agreed to help, and work began seriously at the start of 1996.
The first edition was released in May 1996. At the start of 1997, Karl Berry completed a major new release of
@@ -5105,7 +5105,7 @@
features. The 4th edition followed the same pattern, using a new version of teTeX, and a new
release of Web2C (7.3). The system now included a complete Windows setup, thanks to Fabrice
Popineau.
-</p><!--l. 2824--><p class="indent" > For the 5th edition (March 2000) many parts of the CD were revised and checked, updating hundreds of
+</p><!--l. 2825--><p class="indent" > For the 5th edition (March 2000) many parts of the CD were revised and checked, updating hundreds of
packages. Package details were stored in XML files. But the major change for TeX Live 5 was that all
non-free software was removed. Everything in TeX Live is now intended to be compatible with the
Debian Free Software Guidelines (<a
@@ -5115,19 +5115,19 @@
mistakes.
-</p><!--l. 2833--><p class="indent" > The 6th edition (July 2001) had much more material updated. The major change was a new install concept:
+</p><!--l. 2834--><p class="indent" > The 6th edition (July 2001) had much more material updated. The major change was a new install concept:
the user could select a more exact set of needed collections. Language-related collections were completely
reorganized, so selecting any of them installs not only macros, fonts, etc., but also prepares an appropriate
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">language.dat</span>.
-</p><!--l. 2839--><p class="indent" > The 7th edition of 2002 had the notable addition of Mac OS X support, and the usual myriad of updates to
+</p><!--l. 2840--><p class="indent" > The 7th edition of 2002 had the notable addition of Mac OS X support, and the usual myriad of updates to
all sorts of packages and programs. An important goal was integration of the source back with teTeX, to
correct the drift apart in versions 5 and 6.
-</p><!--l. 2844--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 2845--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.1 </span> <a
id="x1-710009.1.1"></a>2003</h5>
-<!--l. 2846--><p class="noindent" >In 2003, with the continuing flood of updates and additions, we found that TeX Live had grown so large it
+<!--l. 2847--><p class="noindent" >In 2003, with the continuing flood of updates and additions, we found that TeX Live had grown so large it
could no longer be contained on a single CD, so we split it into three different distributions (see section <a
href="#x1-90002.1">2.1<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:tl-coll-dists --></a>,
p. <a
@@ -5175,11 +5175,11 @@
</li>
<li class="itemize">Finally, since the edition numbers had grown unwieldy, the version is now simply identified by the
year: TeX Live 2003.</li></ul>
-<!--l. 2884--><p class="noindent" >
+<!--l. 2885--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.2 </span> <a
id="x1-720009.1.2"></a>2004</h5>
-<!--l. 2886--><p class="noindent" >2004 saw many changes:
+<!--l. 2887--><p class="noindent" >2004 saw many changes:
</p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">If you have locally-installed fonts which use their own <span
@@ -5188,7 +5188,7 @@
files, you may need to move those support files.
- <!--l. 2894--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 2895--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">.map </span>files are now searched for in subdirectories of <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">fonts/map </span>only (in each <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">texmf </span>tree), along
@@ -5199,7 +5199,7 @@
only, along the <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">ENCFONTS </span>path. <span
class="ec-lmss-10">updmap </span>will attempt to warn about problematic files.
- </p><!--l. 2901--><p class="noindent" >For methods of handling this and other information, please see
+ </p><!--l. 2902--><p class="noindent" >For methods of handling this and other information, please see
<a
href="https://tug.org/texlive/mapenc.html" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">https://tug.org/texlive/mapenc.html</span></a>.
@@ -5264,7 +5264,7 @@
class="ec-lmss-10">pdftex </span>are available in LaTeX, ConTeXt, etc., as well as the e-TeX features
(<a
href="../../../../texmf-dist/doc/etex/base/" >texmf-dist/doc/etex/base/</a>).
- <!--l. 2948--><p class="noindent" >It also means it’s <span
+ <!--l. 2949--><p class="noindent" >It also means it’s <span
class="ec-lmri-10">more important than ever </span>to use the <span
class="ec-lmss-10">ifpdf </span>package (works with both plain and
LaTeX) or equivalent code, because simply testing whether <span
@@ -5313,7 +5313,7 @@
id="x1-72002r1"></a>\input "filename with spaces" % plain<br class="fancyvrb" /><a
id="x1-72004r2"></a>\input{"filename with spaces"} % latex</div>
</div>
- <!--l. 2982--><p class="nopar" >See the Web2C manual for more: <a
+ <!--l. 2983--><p class="nopar" >See the Web2C manual for more: <a
href="../../../../texmf-dist/doc/web2c" >texmf-dist/doc/web2c</a>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">encTeX support is now included within Web2C and consequently all TeX programs, via the <span
@@ -5383,11 +5383,11 @@
class="ec-lmss-10">mips-irix</span>,
the MIPSpro 7.4 runtimes are required.
</li></ul>
-<!--l. 3033--><p class="noindent" >
+<!--l. 3034--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.3 </span> <a
id="x1-730009.1.3"></a>2005</h5>
-<!--l. 3035--><p class="noindent" >2005 saw the usual huge number of updates to packages and programs. The infrastructure stayed relatively
+<!--l. 3036--><p class="noindent" >2005 saw the usual huge number of updates to packages and programs. The infrastructure stayed relatively
stable from 2004, but inevitably there were some changes there as well:
</p>
<ul class="itemize1">
@@ -5442,7 +5442,7 @@
<div class="fancyvrb" id="fancyvrb20"><a
id="x1-73002r1"></a>latex --translate-file=empty.tcx yourfile.tex</div>
</div>
- <!--l. 3072--><p class="nopar" >
+ <!--l. 3073--><p class="nopar" >
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">The new program <span
class="ec-lmss-10">dvipdfmx </span>is included for translation of DVI to PDF; this is an actively maintained
@@ -5467,23 +5467,23 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">TEXMFVAR</span>, which is by default user-specific. See the first point
above.
</li></ul>
-<!--l. 3094--><p class="noindent" >
+<!--l. 3095--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.4 </span> <a
id="x1-740009.1.4"></a>2006–2007</h5>
-<!--l. 3096--><p class="noindent" >In 2006–2007, the major new addition to TeX Live was the XeTeX program, available as the <span
+<!--l. 3097--><p class="noindent" >In 2006–2007, the major new addition to TeX Live was the XeTeX program, available as the <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">xetex </span>and
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">xelatex </span>programs; see <a
href="https://scripts.sil.org/xetex" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">https://scripts.sil.org/xetex</span></a>.
-</p><!--l. 3100--><p class="indent" > MetaPost also received a notable update, with more planned for the future (<a
+</p><!--l. 3101--><p class="indent" > MetaPost also received a notable update, with more planned for the future (<a
href="https://tug.org/metapost/articles" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">https://tug.org/metapost/articles</span></a>),
likewise pdfTeX (<a
href="https://tug.org/applications/pdftex" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">https://tug.org/applications/pdftex</span></a>).
-</p><!--l. 3104--><p class="indent" > The TeX <span
+</p><!--l. 3105--><p class="indent" > The TeX <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">.fmt </span>(high-speed format) and the similar files for MetaPost and Metafont are now stored in
subdirectories of <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">texmf/web2c</span>, instead of in the directory itself (although the directory is still searched, for the
@@ -5493,19 +5493,19 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">pdftex </span>or <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">xetex</span>.
This change should be invisible in normal use.
-</p><!--l. 3112--><p class="indent" > The (plain) <span
+</p><!--l. 3113--><p class="indent" > The (plain) <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">tex </span>program no longer reads <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">%& </span>first lines to determine what format to run; it is the pure
Knuthian TeX. (LaTeX and everything else do still read <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">%& </span>lines).
-</p><!--l. 3116--><p class="indent" > Of course the year also saw (the usual) hundreds of other updates to packages and programs. As usual,
+</p><!--l. 3117--><p class="indent" > Of course the year also saw (the usual) hundreds of other updates to packages and programs. As usual,
please check CTAN (<a
href="https://ctan.org" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">https://ctan.org</span></a>) for updates.
-</p><!--l. 3120--><p class="indent" > Internally, the source tree is now stored in Subversion, with a standard web interface for viewing the tree,
+</p><!--l. 3121--><p class="indent" > Internally, the source tree is now stored in Subversion, with a standard web interface for viewing the tree,
as linked from our home page. Although not visible in the final distribution, we expect this will provide a
stable development foundation for future years.
-</p><!--l. 3125--><p class="indent" > Finally, in May 2006 Thomas Esser announced that he would no longer be updating teTeX
+</p><!--l. 3126--><p class="indent" > Finally, in May 2006 Thomas Esser announced that he would no longer be updating teTeX
(<a
href="https://tug.org/tetex" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">https://tug.org/tetex</span></a>). As a result, there was a surge of interest in TeX Live, especially among
@@ -5513,25 +5513,25 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">tetex </span>installation scheme in TeX Live, which provides an
approximate equivalent.) We hope this will eventually translate to improvements in the TeX environment for
everyone.
-</p><!--l. 3133--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 3134--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.5 </span> <a
id="x1-750009.1.5"></a>2008</h5>
-<!--l. 3135--><p class="noindent" >In 2008, the entire TeX Live infrastructure was redesigned and reimplemented. Complete information about an
+<!--l. 3136--><p class="noindent" >In 2008, the entire TeX Live infrastructure was redesigned and reimplemented. Complete information about an
installation is now stored in a plain text file <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3139--><p class="indent" > Among other things, this finally makes possible upgrading a TeX Live installation over the Internet after
+</p><!--l. 3140--><p class="indent" > Among other things, this finally makes possible upgrading a TeX Live installation over the Internet after
the initial installation, a feature MiKTeX has provided for many years. We expect to regularly update new
packages as they are released to CTAN.
-</p><!--l. 3144--><p class="indent" > The major new engine LuaTeX (<a
+</p><!--l. 3145--><p class="indent" > The major new engine LuaTeX (<a
href="http://luatex.org" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">http://luatex.org</span></a>) is included; besides a new level of flexibility
in typesetting, this provides an excellent scripting language for use both inside and outside of
TeX documents.
-</p><!--l. 3149--><p class="indent" > Support among Windows and the Unix-based platforms is now much more uniform. In particular, most
+</p><!--l. 3150--><p class="indent" > Support among Windows and the Unix-based platforms is now much more uniform. In particular, most
Perl and Lua scripts are now available on Windows, using the Perl internally distributed with TeX
Live.
-</p><!--l. 3153--><p class="indent" > The new <span
+</p><!--l. 3154--><p class="indent" > The new <span
class="ec-lmss-10">tlmgr </span>script (section <a
href="#x1-420005">5<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:tlmgr --></a>) is the general interface for managing TeX Live after the initial installation.
It handles package updates and consequent regeneration of formats, map files, and language files, optionally
@@ -5538,47 +5538,47 @@
including local additions.
-</p><!--l. 3158--><p class="indent" > With the advent of <span
+</p><!--l. 3159--><p class="indent" > With the advent of <span
class="ec-lmss-10">tlmgr</span>, the <span
class="ec-lmss-10">texconfig </span>actions to edit the format and hyphenation configuration files are
now disabled.
-</p><!--l. 3161--><p class="indent" > The <span
+</p><!--l. 3162--><p class="indent" > The <span
class="ec-lmss-10">xindy </span>indexing program (<a
href="http://xindy.sourceforge.net/" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">http://xindy.sourceforge.net/</span></a>) is now included on most
platforms.
-</p><!--l. 3164--><p class="indent" > The <span
+</p><!--l. 3165--><p class="indent" > The <span
class="ec-lmss-10">kpsewhich </span>tool can now report all matches for a given file (option <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">–all</span>) and limit matches to a given
subdirectory (option <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">–subdir</span>).
-</p><!--l. 3168--><p class="indent" > The <span
+</p><!--l. 3169--><p class="indent" > The <span
class="ec-lmss-10">dvipdfmx </span>program now includes functionality to extract bounding box information, via the command
name <span
class="ec-lmss-10">extractbb</span>; this was one of the last features provided by <span
class="ec-lmss-10">dvipdfm </span>not in <span
class="ec-lmss-10">dvipdfmx</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3173--><p class="indent" > The font aliases <span
+</p><!--l. 3174--><p class="indent" > The font aliases <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">Times-Roman</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">Helvetica</span>, and so on have been removed. Different packages expected them
to behave differently (in particular, to have different encodings), and there was no good way to resolve
this.
-</p><!--l. 3178--><p class="indent" > The <span
+</p><!--l. 3179--><p class="indent" > The <span
class="ec-lmss-10">platex </span>format has been removed, to resolve a name conflict with a completely different Japanese <span
class="ec-lmss-10">platex</span>;
the <span
class="ec-lmss-10">polski </span>package is now the main Polish support.
-</p><!--l. 3182--><p class="indent" > Internally, the <span
+</p><!--l. 3183--><p class="indent" > Internally, the <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">WEB</span> string pool files are now compiled into the binaries, to ease upgrades.
-</p><!--l. 3185--><p class="indent" > Finally, the changes made by Donald Knuth in his ‘TeX tuneup of 2008’ are included in this release. See
+</p><!--l. 3186--><p class="indent" > Finally, the changes made by Donald Knuth in his ‘TeX tuneup of 2008’ are included in this release. See
<a
href="https://tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb29-2/tb92knut.pdf" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">https://tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb29-2/tb92knut.pdf</span></a>.
-</p><!--l. 3189--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 3190--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.6 </span> <a
id="x1-760009.1.6"></a>2009</h5>
-<!--l. 3191--><p class="noindent" >In 2009, the default output format for Lua(L<span
+<!--l. 3192--><p class="noindent" >In 2009, the default output format for Lua(L<span
class="ec-lmr-7">A</span> )TeX is now PDF, to take advantage of LuaTeX’s OpenType
support, et al. New executables named <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">dviluatex </span>and <span
@@ -5586,9 +5586,9 @@
LuaTeX home page is <a
href="http://luatex.org" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">http://luatex.org</span></a>.
-</p><!--l. 3196--><p class="indent" > The original Omega engine and Lambda format have been excised, after discussions with the Omega
+</p><!--l. 3197--><p class="indent" > The original Omega engine and Lambda format have been excised, after discussions with the Omega
authors. The updated Aleph and Lamed remain, as do the Omega utilities.
-</p><!--l. 3200--><p class="indent" > A new release of the AMS Type 1 fonts is included, including Computer Modern: a few shape
+</p><!--l. 3201--><p class="indent" > A new release of the AMS Type 1 fonts is included, including Computer Modern: a few shape
changes made over the years by Knuth in the Metafont sources have been integrated, and the
hinting has been updated. The Euler fonts have been thoroughly reshaped by Hermann Zapf (see
<a
@@ -5597,17 +5597,17 @@
unchanged. The AMS fonts home page is <a
href="https://ams.org/tex/amsfonts.html" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">https://ams.org/tex/amsfonts.html</span></a>.
-</p><!--l. 3208--><p class="indent" > The new GUI front end TeXworks is included for Windows, and also in MacTeX. For other platforms, and
+</p><!--l. 3209--><p class="indent" > The new GUI front end TeXworks is included for Windows, and also in MacTeX. For other platforms, and
more information, see the TeXworks home page, <a
href="https://tug.org/texworks" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">https://tug.org/texworks</span></a>. It is a cross-platform front-end
inspired by the Mac OS X TeXShop editor, aiming at ease-of-use.
-</p><!--l. 3214--><p class="indent" > The graphics program Asymptote is included for several platforms. This implements a text-based graphics
+</p><!--l. 3215--><p class="indent" > The graphics program Asymptote is included for several platforms. This implements a text-based graphics
description language vaguely akin to MetaPost, but with advanced 3D support and other features. Its home
page is <a
href="https://asymptote.sourceforge.io" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">https://asymptote.sourceforge.io</span></a>.
-</p><!--l. 3219--><p class="indent" > The separate <span
+</p><!--l. 3220--><p class="indent" > The separate <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">dvipdfm </span>program has been replaced by <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">dvipdfmx</span>, which operates in a special compatibility
mode under that name. <span
@@ -5614,12 +5614,12 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">dvipdfmx </span>includes CJK support and has accumulated many other fixes over the years
since the last <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">dvipdfm </span>release.
-</p><!--l. 3225--><p class="indent" > Executables for the <span
+</p><!--l. 3226--><p class="indent" > Executables for the <span
class="ec-lmss-10">cygwin </span>and <span
class="ec-lmss-10">i386-netbsd </span>platforms are now included, while we were advised that
OpenBSD users get TeX through their package systems, plus there were difficulties in making binaries that
have a chance of working on more than one version.
-</p><!--l. 3230--><p class="indent" > A miscellany of smaller changes: we now use <span
+</p><!--l. 3231--><p class="indent" > A miscellany of smaller changes: we now use <span
class="ec-lmss-10">xz </span>compression, the stable replacement for <span
class="ec-lmss-10">lzma</span>
(<a
@@ -5628,21 +5628,21 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">$</span></span></span> is allowed in filenames when it does not introduce a known variable
name; the Kpathsea library is now multi-threaded (made use of in MetaPost); the entire TeX Live build is now
based on Automake.
-</p><!--l. 3237--><p class="indent" > Final note on the past: all releases of TeX Live, along with ancillary material such as CD labels, are
+</p><!--l. 3238--><p class="indent" > Final note on the past: all releases of TeX Live, along with ancillary material such as CD labels, are
available at <a
href="ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive</span></a>.
-</p><!--l. 3242--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 3243--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.7 </span> <a
id="x1-770009.1.7"></a>2010</h5>
-<!--l. 3245--><p class="noindent" >In 2010, the default version for PDF output is now 1.5, enabling more compression. This applies to all the
+<!--l. 3246--><p class="noindent" >In 2010, the default version for PDF output is now 1.5, enabling more compression. This applies to all the
TeX engines when used to produce PDF and to <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">dvipdfmx</span>. Loading the <span
class="ec-lmss-10">pdf14 </span>LaTeX package changes back to
PDF 1.4, or set <span class="obeylines-h"><span class="verb"><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\pdfminorversion=4</span></span></span>.
-</p><!--l. 3250--><p class="indent" > pdf(L<span
+</p><!--l. 3251--><p class="indent" > pdf(L<span
class="ec-lmr-7">A</span> )TeX now <span
class="ec-lmri-10">automatically </span>converts a requested Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) file to PDF, via the
<span
@@ -5663,7 +5663,7 @@
(<a
href="https://ctan.org/pkg/epstopdf-pkg" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">https://ctan.org/pkg/epstopdf-pkg</span></a>).
-</p><!--l. 3262--><p class="indent" > A related change is that execution of a very few external commands from TeX, via the <span
+</p><!--l. 3263--><p class="indent" > A related change is that execution of a very few external commands from TeX, via the <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\write18 </span>feature, is
now enabled by default. These commands are <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">repstopdf</span>, <span
@@ -5681,7 +5681,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10"> texmf</span><span
class="ec-lmtt-10"> shell_escape</span><span
class="ec-lmtt-10"> 0</span></span></span>.
-</p><!--l. 3271--><p class="indent" > Yet another related change is that BibTeX and Makeindex now refuse to write their output files to an
+</p><!--l. 3272--><p class="indent" > Yet another related change is that BibTeX and Makeindex now refuse to write their output files to an
arbitrary directory (like TeX itself), by default. This is so they can now be enabled for use by the restricted
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\write18</span>. To change this, the <span
@@ -5688,9 +5688,9 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">TEXMFOUTPUT </span>environment variable can be set, or the <span class="obeylines-h"><span class="verb"><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">openout_any</span></span></span> setting
changed.
-</p><!--l. 3277--><p class="indent" > XeTeX now supports margin kerning along the same lines as pdfTeX. (Font expansion is not presently
+</p><!--l. 3278--><p class="indent" > XeTeX now supports margin kerning along the same lines as pdfTeX. (Font expansion is not presently
supported.)
-</p><!--l. 3280--><p class="indent" > By default, <span
+</p><!--l. 3281--><p class="indent" > By default, <span
class="ec-lmss-10">tlmgr </span>now saves one backup of each package updated (<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">tlmgr option autobackup 1</span>), so
broken package updates can be easily reverted with <span
@@ -5697,7 +5697,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">tlmgr restore</span>. If you do post-install updates, and don’t
have the disk space for the backups, run <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">tlmgr option autobackup 0</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3286--><p class="indent" > New programs included: the pTeX engine and related utilities for typesetting Japanese; the BibTeXU program
+</p><!--l. 3287--><p class="indent" > New programs included: the pTeX engine and related utilities for typesetting Japanese; the BibTeXU program
for Unicode-enabled BibTeX; the <span
class="ec-lmss-10">chktex </span>utility (originally from <a
href="http://baruch.ev-en.org/proj/chktex" class="url" ><span
@@ -5707,7 +5707,7 @@
class="ec-lmss-10">dvisvgm </span>(<a
href="https://dvisvgm.de" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">https://dvisvgm.de</span></a>) DVI-to-SVG translator.
-</p><!--l. 3294--><p class="indent" > Executables for these new platforms are now included: <span
+</p><!--l. 3295--><p class="indent" > Executables for these new platforms are now included: <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">amd64-freebsd</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">amd64-kfreebsd</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">i386-freebsd</span>,
@@ -5715,7 +5715,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">i386-kfreebsd</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">x86_64-darwin</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">x86_64-solaris</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3298--><p class="indent" > A change in TeX Live 2009 that we failed to note: numerous TeX4ht-related executables
+</p><!--l. 3299--><p class="indent" > A change in TeX Live 2009 that we failed to note: numerous TeX4ht-related executables
(<a
href="https://tug.org/tex4ht" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">https://tug.org/tex4ht</span></a>) were removed from the binary directories. The generic <span
@@ -5722,46 +5722,46 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">mk4ht </span>program can be used
to run any of the various <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">tex4ht </span>combinations.
-</p><!--l. 3303--><p class="indent" > Finally, the TeX Live release on the TeX Collection DVD can no longer be run live (oddly enough). A
+</p><!--l. 3304--><p class="indent" > Finally, the TeX Live release on the TeX Collection DVD can no longer be run live (oddly enough). A
single DVD no longer has enough room. One beneficial side effect is that installation from the physical
DVD is much faster.
-</p><!--l. 3308--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 3309--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.8 </span> <a
id="x1-780009.1.8"></a>2011</h5>
-<!--l. 3310--><p class="noindent" >The Mac OS X binaries (<span
+<!--l. 3311--><p class="noindent" >The Mac OS X binaries (<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">universal-darwin </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">x86_64-darwin</span>) now work only on Leopard or later; Panther
and Tiger are no longer supported.
-</p><!--l. 3314--><p class="indent" > The <span
+</p><!--l. 3315--><p class="indent" > The <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">biber </span>program for bibliography processing is included on common platforms. Its development is
closely coupled with the <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">biblatex </span>package, which completely reimplements the bibliographical facilities
provided by LaTeX.
-</p><!--l. 3319--><p class="indent" > The MetaPost (<span
+</p><!--l. 3320--><p class="indent" > The MetaPost (<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">mpost</span>) program no longer creates or uses <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">.mem </span>files. The needed files, such as <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">plain.mp</span>, are
simply read on every run. This is related to supporting MetaPost as a library, which is another significant
though not user-visible change.
-</p><!--l. 3324--><p class="indent" > The <span
+</p><!--l. 3325--><p class="indent" > The <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">updmap </span>implementation in Perl, previously used only on Windows, has been revamped and is now used
on all platforms. There shouldn’t be any user-visible changes as a result, except that it runs much
faster.
-</p><!--l. 3329--><p class="indent" > The <span
+</p><!--l. 3330--><p class="indent" > The <span
class="ec-lmss-10">initex </span>and <span
class="ec-lmss-10">inimf </span>programs were restored (but no other <span
class="ec-lmss-10">ini* </span>variants).
-</p><!--l. 3332--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 3333--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.9 </span> <a
id="x1-790009.1.9"></a>2012</h5>
-<!--l. 3334--><p class="noindent" ><span
+<!--l. 3335--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">tlmgr </span>supports updates from multiple network repositories. The section on multiple repositories in the <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">tlmgr</span>
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">help </span>output has more.
-</p><!--l. 3338--><p class="indent" > The parameter <span
+</p><!--l. 3339--><p class="indent" > The parameter <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\XeTeXdashbreakstate </span>is set to 1 by default, for both <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">xetex </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">xelatex</span>. This allows line
@@ -5769,39 +5769,39 @@
Existing XeTeX documents which must retain perfect line-break compatibility will need to set
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\XeTeXdashbreakstate </span>to 0 explicitly.
-</p><!--l. 3345--><p class="indent" > The output files generated by <span
+</p><!--l. 3346--><p class="indent" > The output files generated by <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">pdftex </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">dvips</span>, among others, can now exceed 2 gigabytes.
-</p><!--l. 3348--><p class="indent" > The 35 standard PostScript fonts are included in the output of <span
+</p><!--l. 3349--><p class="indent" > The 35 standard PostScript fonts are included in the output of <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">dvips </span>by default, since so many different
versions of them are extant.
-</p><!--l. 3352--><p class="indent" > In the restricted <span
+</p><!--l. 3353--><p class="indent" > In the restricted <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\write18 </span>execution mode, set by default, <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">mpost </span>is now an allowed program.
-</p><!--l. 3355--><p class="indent" > A <span
+</p><!--l. 3356--><p class="indent" > A <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">texmf.cnf </span>file is also found in <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">../texmf-local</span>, e.g., <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/web2c/texmf.cnf</span>, if
it exists.
-</p><!--l. 3359--><p class="indent" > The <span
+</p><!--l. 3360--><p class="indent" > The <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">updmap </span>script reads a per-tree <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">updmap.cfg </span>instead of one global config. This change should be
invisible, unless you edited your updmap.cfg’s directly. The <span class="obeylines-h"><span class="verb"><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">updmap</span><span
class="ec-lmtt-10"> --help</span></span></span> output has more.
-</p><!--l. 3363--><p class="indent" > Platforms: <span
+</p><!--l. 3364--><p class="indent" > Platforms: <span
class="ec-lmss-10">armel-linux </span>and <span
class="ec-lmss-10">mipsel-linux </span>added; <span
class="ec-lmss-10">sparc-linux </span>and <span
class="ec-lmss-10">i386-netbsd </span>are no longer in the main
distribution.
-</p><!--l. 3367--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 3368--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.10 </span> <a
id="x1-800009.1.10"></a>2013</h5>
-<!--l. 3369--><p class="noindent" >Distribution layout: the top-level <span
+<!--l. 3370--><p class="noindent" >Distribution layout: the top-level <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">texmf/ </span>directory has been merged into <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">texmf-dist/</span>, for simplicity. Both the
<span
@@ -5808,12 +5808,12 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">TEXMFMAIN </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">TEXMFDIST </span>Kpathsea variables now point to <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">texmf-dist</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3374--><p class="indent" > Many small language collections have been merged together, to simplify installation.
-</p><!--l. 3377--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: native support for PNG output and floating-point (IEEE double) has been added.
-</p><!--l. 3380--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: updated to Lua 5.2, and includes a new library (<span
+</p><!--l. 3375--><p class="indent" > Many small language collections have been merged together, to simplify installation.
+</p><!--l. 3378--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: native support for PNG output and floating-point (IEEE double) has been added.
+</p><!--l. 3381--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: updated to Lua 5.2, and includes a new library (<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">pdfscanner</span>) to process external PDF page
content, among much else (see its web pages).
-</p><!--l. 3384--><p class="indent" > XeTeX (also see its web pages for more): </p>
+</p><!--l. 3385--><p class="indent" > XeTeX (also see its web pages for more): </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">The HarfBuzz library is now used for font layout instead of ICU. (ICU is still used to support
input encodings, bidirectionality, and the optional Unicode line breaking.)
@@ -5828,13 +5828,13 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">xdvipdfmx</span>.
</li>
<li class="itemize">Support OpenType math cut-ins.</li></ul>
-<!--l. 3398--><p class="indent" > <span
+<!--l. 3399--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmss-10">xdvi</span>: now uses FreeType instead of <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">t1lib </span>for rendering.
-</p><!--l. 3400--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 3401--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmss-10">microtype.sty</span>: some support for XeTeX (protrusion) and LuaTeX (protrusion, font expansion, tracking),
among other enhancements.
-</p><!--l. 3404--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 3405--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmss-10">tlmgr</span>: new <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">pinning </span>action to ease configuring multiple repositories; that section in <span class="obeylines-h"><span class="verb"><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">tlmgr</span><span
@@ -5842,7 +5842,7 @@
more, online at <a
href="https://tug.org/texlive/doc/tlmgr.html#MULTIPLE-REPOSITORIES" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">https://tug.org/texlive/doc/tlmgr.html#MULTIPLE-REPOSITORIES</span></a>.
-</p><!--l. 3408--><p class="indent" > Platforms: <span
+</p><!--l. 3409--><p class="indent" > Platforms: <span
class="ec-lmss-10">armhf-linux</span>, <span
class="ec-lmss-10">mips-irix</span>, <span
class="ec-lmss-10">i386-netbsd</span>, and <span
@@ -5849,17 +5849,17 @@
class="ec-lmss-10">amd64-netbsd </span>added or revived; <span
class="ec-lmss-10">powerpc-aix</span>
removed.
-</p><!--l. 3412--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 3413--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.11 </span> <a
id="x1-810009.1.11"></a>2014</h5>
-<!--l. 3414--><p class="noindent" >2014 saw another TeX tune-up from Knuth; this affected all engines, but the only visible change likely is the
+<!--l. 3415--><p class="noindent" >2014 saw another TeX tune-up from Knuth; this affected all engines, but the only visible change likely is the
restoration of the <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">preloaded format </span>string on the banner line. Per Knuth, this now reflects the format that
<span
class="ec-lmri-10">would </span>be loaded by default, rather than an undumped format that is actually preloaded in the binary; it may
be overridden in various ways.
-</p><!--l. 3421--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: new warning-suppression parameter <span
+</p><!--l. 3422--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: new warning-suppression parameter <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\pdfsuppresswarningpagegroup</span>; new primitives for fake
interword spaces to help with PDF text reflowing: <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\pdfinterwordspaceon</span>, <span
@@ -5866,7 +5866,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">\pdfinterwordspaceoff</span>,
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\pdffakespace</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3426--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: Notable changes and fixes were made to font loading and hyphenation. The biggest addition is a
+</p><!--l. 3427--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: Notable changes and fixes were made to font loading and hyphenation. The biggest addition is a
new engine variant, <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">luajittex </span>and its siblings <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">texluajit </span>and <span
@@ -5882,10 +5882,10 @@
code.
-</p><!--l. 3437--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: The same image formats are now supported on all platforms (including Mac); avoid Unicode
+</p><!--l. 3438--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: The same image formats are now supported on all platforms (including Mac); avoid Unicode
compatibility decomposition fallback (but not other variants); prefer OpenType to Graphite fonts, for
compatibility with previous XeTeX versions.
-</p><!--l. 3442--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: A new numbersystem <span
+</p><!--l. 3443--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: A new numbersystem <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">decimal </span>is supported, along with a companion internal <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">numberprecision</span>;
a new definition of <span
@@ -5892,13 +5892,13 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">drawdot </span>in <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">plain.mp</span>, per Knuth; bug fixes in SVG and PNG output, among
others.
-</p><!--l. 3447--><p class="indent" > The <span
+</p><!--l. 3448--><p class="indent" > The <span
class="ec-lmss-10">pstopdf </span>ConTeXt utility will be removed as a standalone command at some point after the release, due
to conflicts with OS utilities of the same name. It can still (and now) be invoked as <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">mtxrun –script</span>
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">pstopdf</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3452--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 3453--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmss-10">psutils </span>has been substantially revised by a new maintainer. As a result, several seldom-used utilities (<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">fix*</span>,
<span
@@ -5909,7 +5909,7 @@
executables (this can be reversed if it turns out to be problematic). A new script, <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">psjoin</span>, has been
added.
-</p><!--l. 3459--><p class="indent" > The MacTeX redistribution of TeX Live (section <a
+</p><!--l. 3460--><p class="indent" > The MacTeX redistribution of TeX Live (section <a
href="#x1-170003.1.2">3.1.2<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:macosx --></a>) no longer includes the optional Mac-only packages
for the Latin Modern and TeX Gyre fonts, since it is easy enough for individual users to make them available
to the system. The <span
@@ -5916,18 +5916,18 @@
class="ec-lmss-10">convert </span>program from ImageMagick has also been excised, since TeX4ht (specifically
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">tex4ht.env</span>) now uses Ghostscript directly.
-</p><!--l. 3466--><p class="indent" > The <span
+</p><!--l. 3467--><p class="indent" > The <span
class="ec-lmss-10">langcjk </span>collection for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean support has been split into individual language
collections for the sake of more moderate sizes.
-</p><!--l. 3470--><p class="indent" > Platforms: <span
+</p><!--l. 3471--><p class="indent" > Platforms: <span
class="ec-lmss-10">x86_64-cygwin </span>added, <span
class="ec-lmss-10">mips-irix </span>removed; Microsoft no longer supports Windows XP, so our
programs may start failing there at any time.
-</p><!--l. 3474--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 3475--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.12 </span> <a
id="x1-820009.1.12"></a>2015</h5>
-<!--l. 3476--><p class="noindent" >LaTeX2e now incorporates, by default, changes previously included only by explicitly loading the <span
+<!--l. 3477--><p class="noindent" >LaTeX2e now incorporates, by default, changes previously included only by explicitly loading the <span
class="ec-lmss-10">fixltx2e</span>
package, which is now a no-op. A new <span
class="ec-lmss-10">latexrelease </span>package and other mechanisms allow for controlling what is
@@ -5936,35 +5936,35 @@
and <span
class="ec-lmss-10">psnfss </span>packages, while core parts of LaTeX, are maintained separately and are not affected by these
changes (and should still work).
-</p><!--l. 3485--><p class="indent" > Internally, LaTeX2e now includes Unicode-related engine configuration (what characters are letters,
+</p><!--l. 3486--><p class="indent" > Internally, LaTeX2e now includes Unicode-related engine configuration (what characters are letters,
naming of primitives, etc.) which was previously part of TeX Live. This change is intended to be invisible to
users; a few low-level internal control sequences have been renamed or removed, but the behavior should be
just the same.
-</p><!--l. 3491--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: Support JPEG Exif as well as JFIF; do not emit a warning if <span
+</p><!--l. 3492--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: Support JPEG Exif as well as JFIF; do not emit a warning if <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\pdfinclusionerrorlevel </span>is
negative; sync with <span
class="ec-lmss-10">xpdf</span> 3.04.
-</p><!--l. 3495--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: New library <span
+</p><!--l. 3496--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: New library <span
class="ec-lmss-10">newtokenlib </span>for scanning tokens; bug fixes in the <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">normal </span>random number generator
and other places.
-</p><!--l. 3498--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: Image handling fixes; <span
+</p><!--l. 3499--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: Image handling fixes; <span
class="ec-lmss-10">xdvipdfmx </span>binary looked for first as a sibling to <span
class="ec-lmss-10">xetex</span>; internal <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">XDV </span>opcodes
changed.
-</p><!--l. 3501--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: New numbersystem <span
+</p><!--l. 3502--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: New numbersystem <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">binary</span>; new Japanese-enabled <span
class="ec-lmss-10">upmpost </span>and <span
class="ec-lmss-10">updvitomp </span>programs, analogous
to <span
class="ec-lmss-10">up*tex</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3505--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: Updates to the included Ghostscript package for CJK support. The TeX Distribution
+</p><!--l. 3506--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: Updates to the included Ghostscript package for CJK support. The TeX Distribution
Preference Pane now works in Yosemite (Mac OS X 10.10). Resource-fork font suitcases (generally
without an extension) are no longer supported by XeTeX; data-fork suitcases (<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">.dfont</span>) remain
supported.
-</p><!--l. 3511--><p class="indent" > Infrastructure: The <span
+</p><!--l. 3512--><p class="indent" > Infrastructure: The <span
class="ec-lmss-10">fmtutil </span>script has been reimplemented to read <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">fmtutil.cnf </span>on a per-tree basis,
analogous to <span
@@ -5975,7 +5975,7 @@
class="ec-lmss-10">mktexpk</span>) now prefer programs in
their own directory, instead of always using the existing <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">PATH</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3517--><p class="indent" > Platforms: <span
+</p><!--l. 3518--><p class="indent" > Platforms: <span
class="ec-lmss-10">*-kfreebsd </span>removed, since TeX Live is now easily available through the system
platform mechanisms. Support for some additional platforms is available as custom binaries
(<a
@@ -5982,13 +5982,13 @@
href="https://tug.org/texlive/custom-bin.html" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">https://tug.org/texlive/custom-bin.html</span></a>). In addition, some platforms are now omitted from the
DVD (simply to save space), but can be installed normally over the net.
-</p><!--l. 3525--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 3526--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.13 </span> <a
id="x1-830009.1.13"></a>2016</h5>
-<!--l. 3527--><p class="noindent" >LuaTeX: Sweeping changes to primitives, both renames and removals, along with some node structure
+<!--l. 3528--><p class="noindent" >LuaTeX: Sweeping changes to primitives, both renames and removals, along with some node structure
rearrangements. The changes are summarized in an article by Hans Hagen, “LuaTeX 0.90 backend changes for
PDF and more” (<a
href="https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb37-1/tb115hagen-pdf.pdf" class="url" ><span
@@ -5995,10 +5995,10 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb37-1/tb115hagen-pdf.pdf</span></a>); for all the details, see the
LuaTeX manual, <a
href="../../../../texmf-dist/doc/luatex/base/luatex.pdf" >texmf-dist/doc/luatex/base/luatex.pdf</a>.
-</p><!--l. 3535--><p class="indent" > Metafont: New highly experimental sibling programs MFlua and MFluajit, integrating Lua with Metafont,
+</p><!--l. 3536--><p class="indent" > Metafont: New highly experimental sibling programs MFlua and MFluajit, integrating Lua with Metafont,
for trial testing purposes.
-</p><!--l. 3538--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: Bug fixes and internal preparations for MetaPost 2.0.
-</p><!--l. 3540--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 3539--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: Bug fixes and internal preparations for MetaPost 2.0.
+</p><!--l. 3541--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH </span>support in all engines except LuaTeX (which will come in the next release) and
original <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">tex </span>(intentionally omitted): if the environment variable <span
@@ -6012,13 +6012,13 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">\day</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\time</span>. The pdfTeX manual has examples
and details.
-</p><!--l. 3549--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: new primitives <span
+</p><!--l. 3550--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: new primitives <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\pdfinfoomitdate</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\pdftrailerid</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\pdfsuppressptexinfo</span>, to control values
appearing in the output which normally change with each run. These features are for PDF output only, not
DVI.
-</p><!--l. 3554--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: New primitives <span
+</p><!--l. 3555--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: New primitives <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\XeTeXhyphenatablelength</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\XeTeXgenerateactualtext</span>,<br
class="newline" /><span
@@ -6025,7 +6025,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">\XeTeXinterwordspaceshaping</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\mdfivesum</span>; character class limit increased to 4096; DVI id byte
incremented.
-</p><!--l. 3559--><p class="indent" > Other utilities: </p>
+</p><!--l. 3560--><p class="indent" > Other utilities: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize"><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">gregorio </span>is a new program, part of the <span
@@ -6045,26 +6045,26 @@
</li>
<li class="itemize"><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">ps2pk </span>can handle extended PK/GF fonts.</li></ul>
-<!--l. 3575--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: The TeX Distribution Preference Pane is gone; its functionality is now in TeX Live Utility;
+<!--l. 3576--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: The TeX Distribution Preference Pane is gone; its functionality is now in TeX Live Utility;
bundled GUI applications upgraded; new script <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">cjk-gs-integrate </span>to be run by users who wish to incorporate
various CJK fonts into Ghostscript.
-</p><!--l. 3580--><p class="indent" > Infrastructure: System-level <span
+</p><!--l. 3581--><p class="indent" > Infrastructure: System-level <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">tlmgr </span>configuration file supported; verify package checksums; if GPG is
available, verify signature of network updates. These checks happen with both the installer and <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">tlmgr</span>. If GPG
is not available, updates proceed as usual.
-</p><!--l. 3585--><p class="indent" > Platforms: <span
+</p><!--l. 3586--><p class="indent" > Platforms: <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">alpha-linux </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">mipsel-linux </span>removed.
-</p><!--l. 3588--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 3589--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.14 </span> <a
id="x1-840009.1.14"></a>2017</h5>
-<!--l. 3590--><p class="noindent" >LuaTeX: More callbacks, more typesetting control, more access to internals; <span
+<!--l. 3591--><p class="noindent" >LuaTeX: More callbacks, more typesetting control, more access to internals; <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">ffi </span>library for dynamic code
loading added on some platforms.
-</p><!--l. 3594--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: Environment variable <span class="obeylines-h"><span class="verb"><span
+</p><!--l. 3595--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: Environment variable <span class="obeylines-h"><span class="verb"><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH_TEX_PRIMITIVES</span></span></span> from last year renamed to
<span class="obeylines-h"><span class="verb"><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">FORCE_SOURCE_DATE</span></span></span>, with no changes in functionality; if the <span
@@ -6072,14 +6072,14 @@
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">/MediaBox</span>, omit output of the default <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">/MediaBox</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3599--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: Unicode/OpenType math now based on HarfBuzz’s MATH table support; some bug
+</p><!--l. 3600--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: Unicode/OpenType math now based on HarfBuzz’s MATH table support; some bug
fixes.
-</p><!--l. 3602--><p class="indent" > Dvips: Make the last papersize special win, for consistency with <span
+</p><!--l. 3603--><p class="indent" > Dvips: Make the last papersize special win, for consistency with <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">dvipdfmx </span>and package expectations; the
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">-L0 </span>option (<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">L0 </span>config setting) restores the previous behavior of the first special winning.
-</p><!--l. 3607--><p class="indent" > epTeX, eupTeX: New primitives <span
+</p><!--l. 3608--><p class="indent" > epTeX, eupTeX: New primitives <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\pdfuniformdeviate</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\pdfnormaldeviate</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\pdfrandomseed</span>,
@@ -6087,7 +6087,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">\pdfsetrandomseed</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\pdfelapsedtime</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\pdfresettimer</span>, from pdfTeX.
-</p><!--l. 3611--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: As of this year, only Mac OS X releases for which Apple still releases security patches
+</p><!--l. 3612--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: As of this year, only Mac OS X releases for which Apple still releases security patches
will be supported in MacTeX, under the platform name <span class="obeylines-h"><span class="verb"><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">x86_64-darwin</span></span></span>; currently this means
Yosemite, El Capitan, and Sierra (10.10 and newer). Binaries for older Mac OS X versions are not
@@ -6098,7 +6098,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">powerpc-darwin</span>).
-</p><!--l. 3618--><p class="indent" > Infrastructure: The <span
+</p><!--l. 3619--><p class="indent" > Infrastructure: The <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">TEXMFLOCAL </span>tree is now searched before <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">TEXMFSYSCONFIG </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">TEXMFSYSVAR </span>(by
@@ -6108,7 +6108,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">shell </span>for interactive and scripted use, and a new action <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">conf auxtrees </span>to easily add and
remove extra trees.
-</p><!--l. 3625--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 3626--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">updmap </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">fmtutil</span>: These scripts now give a warning when invoked without explicitly specifying either
so-called system mode (<span
@@ -6123,7 +6123,7 @@
href="https://tug.org/texlive/scripts-sys-user.html" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">https://tug.org/texlive/scripts-sys-user.html</span></a> for
details.
-</p><!--l. 3633--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 3634--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">install-tl</span>: Personal paths such as <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">TEXMFHOME </span>are now set to MacTeX values (<span class="obeylines-h"><span class="verb"><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">~/Library/...</span></span></span>) by
@@ -6132,24 +6132,24 @@
new command <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">P </span>to explicitly save a profile; new profile variable names (but previous ones are still
accepted).
-</p><!--l. 3640--><p class="indent" > SyncTeX: the name of the temporary file now looks like <span
+</p><!--l. 3641--><p class="indent" > SyncTeX: the name of the temporary file now looks like <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">foo.synctex(busy)</span>, instead of
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">foo.synctex.gz(busy) </span>(no <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">.gz</span>). Front-ends and build systems that want to remove temp files may need
adjusting.
-</p><!--l. 3645--><p class="indent" > Other utilities: <span
+</p><!--l. 3646--><p class="indent" > Other utilities: <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">texosquery-jre8 </span>is a new cross-platform program for retrieving locale and other OS
information from a TeX document; it is included in <span class="obeylines-h"><span class="verb"><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">shell_escape_commands</span></span></span> by default for restricted shell
execution. (Older JRE versions are supported by texosquery, but cannot be enabled in restricted mode, as they
are no longer supported by Oracle, even for security issues.)
-</p><!--l. 3652--><p class="indent" > Platforms: See MacTeX entry above; no other changes.
-</p><!--l. 3655--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 3653--><p class="indent" > Platforms: See MacTeX entry above; no other changes.
+</p><!--l. 3656--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.15 </span> <a
id="x1-850009.1.15"></a>2018</h5>
-<!--l. 3657--><p class="noindent" >Kpathsea: Case-insensitive filename matching now done by default in non-system directories; set <span
+<!--l. 3658--><p class="noindent" >Kpathsea: Case-insensitive filename matching now done by default in non-system directories; set <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">texmf.cnf </span>or
environment variable <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">texmf_casefold_search </span>to <span
@@ -6157,9 +6157,9 @@
(<a
href="https://tug.org/kpathsea" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">https://tug.org/kpathsea</span></a>).
-</p><!--l. 3662--><p class="indent" > epTeX, eupTeX: New primitive <span
+</p><!--l. 3663--><p class="indent" > epTeX, eupTeX: New primitive <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\epTeXversion</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3664--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: Preparation for moving to Lua 5.3 in 2019: a binary <span
+</p><!--l. 3665--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: Preparation for moving to Lua 5.3 in 2019: a binary <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">luatex53 </span>is available on most platforms, but
must be renamed to <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">luatex </span>to be effective. Or use the ConTeXt Garden (<a
@@ -6166,19 +6166,19 @@
href="https://wiki.contextgarden.net" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">https://wiki.contextgarden.net</span></a>)
files; more information there.
-</p><!--l. 3669--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: Fixes for wrong path directions, TFM and PNG output.
-</p><!--l. 3671--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: Allow encoding vectors for bitmap fonts; current directory not hashed into PDF ID; bug fixes for
+</p><!--l. 3670--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: Fixes for wrong path directions, TFM and PNG output.
+</p><!--l. 3672--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: Allow encoding vectors for bitmap fonts; current directory not hashed into PDF ID; bug fixes for
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\pdfprimitive </span>and related.
-</p><!--l. 3674--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: Support <span
+</p><!--l. 3675--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: Support <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">/Rotate </span>in PDF image inclusion; exit nonzero if the output driver fails; various obscure
UTF-8 and other primitive fixes.
-</p><!--l. 3678--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: See version support changes below. In addition, the files installed in <span
+</p><!--l. 3679--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: See version support changes below. In addition, the files installed in <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">/Applications/TeX/ </span>by
MacTeX have been reorganized for greater clarity; now this location contains four GUI programs (BibDesk,
LaTeXiT, TeX Live Utility, and TeXShop) at the top level and folders with additional utilities and
documentation.
-</p><!--l. 3684--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 3685--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">tlmgr</span>: new front-ends <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">tlshell </span>(Tcl/Tk) and <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">tlcockpit </span>(Java); JSON output; <span
@@ -6186,7 +6186,7 @@
for <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">remove</span>; new action/option <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">print-platform-info</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3688--><p class="indent" > Platforms: </p>
+</p><!--l. 3689--><p class="indent" > Platforms: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">Removed: <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">armel-linux</span>, <span
@@ -6205,37 +6205,37 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">platforms </span>have been removed.
</li>
<li class="itemize">Windows: XP is no longer supported.</li></ul>
-<!--l. 3705--><p class="noindent" >
+<!--l. 3706--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.16 </span> <a
id="x1-860009.1.16"></a>2019</h5>
-<!--l. 3707--><p class="noindent" >Kpathsea: More consistent brace expansion and path splitting; new variable <span
+<!--l. 3708--><p class="noindent" >Kpathsea: More consistent brace expansion and path splitting; new variable <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">TEXMFDOTDIR </span>instead of
hard-coded <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">.</span> in paths allows for easily searching additional or sub-directories (see comments in
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">texmf.cnf</span>).
-</p><!--l. 3712--><p class="indent" > epTeX, eupTeX: New primitives <span
+</p><!--l. 3713--><p class="indent" > epTeX, eupTeX: New primitives <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\readpapersizespecial </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\expanded</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3715--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: Lua 5.3 now used, with concomitant arithmetic and interface changes. The homegrown library
+</p><!--l. 3716--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: Lua 5.3 now used, with concomitant arithmetic and interface changes. The homegrown library
pplib is used to read pdf files, thus eliminating the dependency on poppler (and the need for C++); Lua
interface changed accordingly.
-</p><!--l. 3720--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: <span
+</p><!--l. 3721--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">r-mpost </span>command name recognized as an alias for invocation with the <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">–restricted </span>option,
and added to the list of restricted commands available by default. Minimum precision now 2 for
decimal and binary mode. Binary mode no longer available in MPlib but still available in standalone
MetaPost.
-</p><!--l. 3727--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: New primitive <span
+</p><!--l. 3728--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: New primitive <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\expanded</span>; if new primitive parameter <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\pdfomitcharset </span>is set to 1, the <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">/CharSet</span>
string omitted from the PDF output, since it cannot feasibly be guaranteed correct, as required by PDF/A-2
and PDF/A-3.
-</p><!--l. 3732--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: New primitives <span
+</p><!--l. 3733--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: New primitives <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\expanded</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\creationdate</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\elapsedtime</span>, <span
@@ -6249,7 +6249,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">\randomseed</span>; extend <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\Ucharcat </span>to produce
active characters.
-</p><!--l. 3744--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 3745--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">tlmgr</span>: Support <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">curl </span>as a download program; use <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">lz4 </span>and gzip before <span
@@ -6257,13 +6257,13 @@
prefer system-provided binaries over binaries provided with TeX Live for compressor and download programs,
unless the environment variable <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">TEXLIVE_PREFER_OWN </span>is set.
-</p><!--l. 3750--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 3751--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">install-tl</span>: New option <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">-gui </span>(with no argument) is the default on Windows and Macs, and invokes a new
Tcl/TK GUI (see sections <a
href="#x1-50001.3">1.3<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:basic --></a> and <a
href="#x1-210003.1.6">3.1.6<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:graphical-inst --></a>).
-</p><!--l. 3754--><p class="indent" > Utilities: </p>
+</p><!--l. 3755--><p class="indent" > Utilities: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize"><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">cwebbin </span>(<a
@@ -6277,18 +6277,18 @@
</li>
<li class="itemize"><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">dvispc</span>: make a DVI file page-independent with respect to specials.</li></ul>
-<!--l. 3766--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: <span
+<!--l. 3767--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">x86_64-darwin </span>now supports 10.12 and higher (Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave); <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">x86_64-darwinlegacy</span>
still supports 10.6 and newer. The spell checker Excalibur is no longer included, since it requires 32-bit
support.
-</p><!--l. 3771--><p class="indent" > Platforms: removed <span
+</p><!--l. 3772--><p class="indent" > Platforms: removed <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">sparc-solaris</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3774--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 3775--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.17 </span> <a
id="x1-870009.1.17"></a>2020</h5>
-<!--l. 3776--><p class="noindent" >General: </p>
+<!--l. 3777--><p class="noindent" >General: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">The <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\input </span>primitive in all TeX engines, including <span
@@ -6318,7 +6318,7 @@
href="https://latex-project.org/news" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">https://latex-project.org/news</span></a>).
</li></ul>
-<!--l. 3798--><p class="indent" > epTeX, eupTeX: New primitives <span
+<!--l. 3799--><p class="indent" > epTeX, eupTeX: New primitives <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\Uchar</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\Ucharcat</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\current(x)spacingmode</span>, <span
@@ -6329,7 +6329,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">\currentcjktoken</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3802--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: Integration with HarfBuzz library, available as new engines <span
+</p><!--l. 3803--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: Integration with HarfBuzz library, available as new engines <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">luahbtex </span>(used for <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">lualatex</span>) and
<span
@@ -6336,24 +6336,24 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">luajithbtex</span>. New primitives: <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\eTeXgluestretchorder</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\eTeXglueshrinkorder</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3806--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: New primitive <span
+</p><!--l. 3807--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: New primitive <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\pdfmajorversion</span>; this merely changes the version number in the PDF output; it
has no effect on any PDF content. <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\pdfximage </span>and similar now search for image files in the same way as
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\openin</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3811--><p class="indent" > pTeX: New primitives <span
+</p><!--l. 3812--><p class="indent" > pTeX: New primitives <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\ifjfont</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\iftfont</span>. Also in epTeX, upTeX, eupTeX.
-</p><!--l. 3814--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: Fixes for <span
+</p><!--l. 3815--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: Fixes for <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\Umathchardef</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\XeTeXinterchartoks</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\pdfsavepos</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3816--><p class="indent" > Dvips: Output encodings for bitmap fonts, for better copy/paste capabilities
+</p><!--l. 3817--><p class="indent" > Dvips: Output encodings for bitmap fonts, for better copy/paste capabilities
(<a
href="https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb40-2/tb125rokicki-type3search.pdf" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb40-2/tb125rokicki-type3search.pdf</span></a>).
-</p><!--l. 3820--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: MacTeX and <span
+</p><!--l. 3821--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: MacTeX and <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">x86_64-darwin </span>now require 10.13 or higher (High Sierra, Mojave, and Catalina);
<span
class="ec-lmtt-10">x86_64-darwinlegacy </span>supports 10.6 and newer. MacTeX is notarized and command line programs have
@@ -6361,7 +6361,7 @@
not in MacTeX because they are not notarized, but a <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">README </span>file lists urls where they can be
obtained.
-</p><!--l. 3828--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 3829--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">tlmgr </span>and infrastructure: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">Automatically retry (once) packages that fail to download.
@@ -6381,11 +6381,11 @@
<li class="itemize"><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">catalogue-date </span>information no longer propagated from the TeX Catalogue, since it was often
unrelated to package updates.</li></ul>
-<!--l. 3841--><p class="indent" > <a id="news"></a>
+<!--l. 3842--><p class="indent" > <a id="news"></a>
</p>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.2 </span> <a
id="x1-880009.2"></a>Present: 2021</h4>
-<!--l. 3845--><p class="noindent" >General: </p>
+<!--l. 3846--><p class="noindent" >General: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">Donald Knuth’s changes for his 2021 tuneup of TeX and Metafont are incorporated
(<a
@@ -6410,11 +6410,11 @@
<span
class="lmsy-10">≥ </span>the parameter value.
</li></ul>
-<!--l. 3865--><p class="indent" > Aleph: The Aleph-based LaTeX format, named <span
+<!--l. 3866--><p class="indent" > Aleph: The Aleph-based LaTeX format, named <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">lamed</span>, has been removed. The <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">aleph </span>binary itself is still
included and supported.
-</p><!--l. 3868--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: </p>
+</p><!--l. 3869--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">Lua 5.3.6.
</li>
@@ -6428,7 +6428,7 @@
<li class="itemize">Removed width/ic compensation for traditional math code path.</li></ul>
-<!--l. 3876--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: </p>
+<!--l. 3877--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize"><span class="obeylines-h"><span class="verb"><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH</span></span></span> environment variable support for reproducible output.
@@ -6443,7 +6443,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">epsilon </span>changed in binary and decimal modes, so <span class="obeylines-h"><span class="verb"><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">mp_solve_rising_cubic</span></span></span> works as
expected.</li></ul>
-<!--l. 3884--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: </p>
+<!--l. 3885--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">New primitives <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">\pdfrunninglinkoff </span>and <span
@@ -6459,12 +6459,13 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">\pdfglyphtounicode </span>assignments in <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">fmt </span>file.
</li>
- <li class="itemize">Source: poppler support removed, as it was too hard to keep in sync with upstream. In native TL,
- pdfTeX has always used <span
+ <li class="itemize">Source: <span
+class="ec-lmtt-10">poppler </span>support removed, as it was too hard to keep in sync with upstream. In native
+ TL, pdfTeX has always used <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">libs/xpdf</span>, which is cut-down and adapted code from <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">xpdf</span>.</li></ul>
-<!--l. 3896--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: Fixes for math kerning.
-</p><!--l. 3898--><p class="indent" > Dvipdfmx: </p>
+<!--l. 3897--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: Fixes for math kerning.
+</p><!--l. 3899--><p class="indent" > Dvipdfmx: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">If an image file is not found, exit with bad status.
</li>
@@ -6482,7 +6483,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">fnt_def</span></span></span>.
</li>
<li class="itemize">Support new feature of virtual font to fallback Japanese font definition.</li></ul>
-<!--l. 3907--><p class="indent" > Dvips: </p>
+<!--l. 3908--><p class="indent" > Dvips: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">Default PostScript document title is now the basename of the input file, and can be overridden
with the new option <span
@@ -6492,7 +6493,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">.eps </span>or other image file is not found, exit with bad status.
</li>
<li class="itemize">Support new feature of virtual font to fallback Japanese font definition.</li></ul>
-<!--l. 3915--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: MacTeX and its new binary folder <span
+<!--l. 3916--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: MacTeX and its new binary folder <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">universal-darwin </span>now require macOS 10.14 or higher
(Mojave, Catalina, and Big Sur); the <span class="obeylines-h"><span class="verb"><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">x86_64-darwin</span></span></span> binary folder is no longer present. The
@@ -6500,14 +6501,14 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">x86_64-darwinlegacy</span></span></span> binary folder, available only with the Unix <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">install-tl</span>, supports 10.6 and
newer.
-</p><!--l. 3921--><p class="indent" > This is an important year for the Macintosh because Apple introduced ARM machines in November and
+</p><!--l. 3922--><p class="indent" > This is an important year for the Macintosh because Apple introduced ARM machines in November and
will sell and support both ARM and Intel machines for many years. All programs in <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">universal-darwin</span>
have executable code for both ARM and Intel. Both binaries are compiled from the same source
code.
-</p><!--l. 3927--><p class="indent" > The additional programs Ghostscript, LaTeXiT, TeX Live Utility, and TeXShop are all universal and are
+</p><!--l. 3928--><p class="indent" > The additional programs Ghostscript, LaTeXiT, TeX Live Utility, and TeXShop are all universal and are
signed with a hardened runtime, so all are included in MacTeX this year.
-</p><!--l. 3931--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 3932--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">tlmgr </span>and infrastructure: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">keep only one backup of the main repository’s <span
@@ -6524,26 +6525,26 @@
</li>
<li class="itemize">full logging of subcommands moved to new log file <span
class="ec-lmtt-10">texmf-var/web2c/tlmgr-commands.log</span>.</li></ul>
-<!--l. 3942--><p class="noindent" >
+<!--l. 3943--><p class="noindent" >
</p>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.3 </span> <a
id="x1-890009.3"></a>Future</h4>
-<!--l. 3944--><p class="noindent" >We intend to continue to release new versions of TeX Live, and would like to provide more documentation,
+<!--l. 3945--><p class="noindent" >We intend to continue to release new versions of TeX Live, and would like to provide more documentation,
more programs, an ever-improved and better-checked tree of macros and fonts, and anything else TeX. This
work is all done by volunteers in their spare time, and there is always more to do. Please see
<a
href="https://tug.org/texlive/contribute.html" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">https://tug.org/texlive/contribute.html</span></a>.
-</p><!--l. 3950--><p class="indent" > Please send corrections, suggestions, and offers of help to:
+</p><!--l. 3951--><p class="indent" > Please send corrections, suggestions, and offers of help to:
</p><div class="quote">
- <!--l. 3952--><p class="noindent" ><a
+ <!--l. 3953--><p class="noindent" ><a
href="mailto:tex-live at tug.org" ><span class="path"><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">tex-live at tug.org</span></span></a> <br
class="newline" /><a
href="https://tug.org/texlive" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-10">https://tug.org/texlive</span></a></p></div>
-<!--l. 3957--><p class="noindent" ><span
+<!--l. 3958--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmro-10">Happy TeXing!</span>
</p>
Modified: trunk/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.pdf
===================================================================
(Binary files differ)
Modified: trunk/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.tex
===================================================================
--- trunk/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.tex 2021-03-03 23:18:22 UTC (rev 58095)
+++ trunk/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.tex 2021-03-03 23:27:20 UTC (rev 58096)
@@ -1217,13 +1217,14 @@
\subsubsection{Integrating third-party fonts}
-This is unfortunately a messy topic for \TeX\ and pdf\TeX. Forget
-about it unless you want to delve into many details of the \TeX{}
-installation. Many fonts are included in \TL\ already, so take a
-look if you like; \url{https://tug.org/FontCatalogue} is a convenient
-way to see available fonts on the web.
+This is unfortunately a messy topic for \TeX\ and pdf\TeX. Forget about
+it unless you want to delve into many details of the \TeX{}
+installation. Many fonts are included in \TL\ already, so take a look if
+you like; the web pages under \url{https://tug.org/FontCatalogue}
+display nearly all of the text fonts included in the main \TeX\
+distributions, categorized in various ways.
-If you do need to do this, see
+If you do want to install your own fonts, see
\url{https://tug.org/fonts/fontinstall.html} for our best effort at
describing the procedure.
@@ -3888,9 +3889,9 @@
\item Warn instead of aborting when ``\cs{pdfendlink} ended up in
different nesting level than \cs{pdfstartlink}''.
\item Dump \cs{pdfglyphtounicode} assignments in \texttt{fmt} file.
-\item Source: poppler support removed, as it was too hard to keep in sync
-with upstream. In native TL, pdf\TeX\ has always used \texttt{libs/xpdf},
-which is cut-down and adapted code from \texttt{xpdf}.
+\item Source: \texttt{poppler} support removed, as it was too hard to
+keep in sync with upstream. In native TL, pdf\TeX\ has always used
+\texttt{libs/xpdf}, which is cut-down and adapted code from \texttt{xpdf}.
\end{itemize*}
Xe\TeX{}: Fixes for math kerning.
More information about the tex-live-commits
mailing list.