texlive[74120] Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en: updates from
commits+karl at tug.org
commits+karl at tug.org
Tue Feb 18 23:51:43 CET 2025
Revision: 74120
https://tug.org/svn/texlive?view=revision&revision=74120
Author: karl
Date: 2025-02-18 23:51:42 +0100 (Tue, 18 Feb 2025)
Log Message:
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updates from Siep
Modified Paths:
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trunk/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en/Makefile
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/Makefile
===================================================================
--- trunk/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en/Makefile 2025-02-18 22:38:57 UTC (rev 74119)
+++ trunk/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en/Makefile 2025-02-18 22:51:42 UTC (rev 74120)
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
# in case we need to test changes against some previous version.
#systex = /usr/local/texlive-rel/texmf-dist/tex//
systex = :
-tlpre = tlrel # possible prefix to run from pretest, etc.
+tlpre = # possible prefix to run from pretest, etc.
env = TEXINPUTS=.:../texlive-en:../texlive-common:$(systex); export TEXINPUTS;
pdflatex_opts = --file-line-error
Modified: trunk/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.html
===================================================================
--- trunk/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.html 2025-02-18 22:38:57 UTC (rev 74119)
+++ trunk/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.html 2025-02-18 22:51:42 UTC (rev 74120)
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
<br /> <span class="subsubsectionToc" >3.4.2 <a
href="#x1-310003.4.2" id="QQ2-1-39">Environment variables: Global configuration</a></span>
<br /> <span class="subsubsectionToc" >3.4.3 <a
-href="#x1-320003.4.3" id="QQ2-1-40">Internet updates after DVD installation</a></span>
+href="#x1-320003.4.3" id="QQ2-1-40">Internet updates after DVD or ISO installation</a></span>
<br /> <span class="subsubsectionToc" >3.4.4 <a
href="#x1-330003.4.4" id="QQ2-1-41">System font configuration for XeTeX and LuaTeX</a></span>
<br /> <span class="subsubsectionToc" >3.4.5 <a
@@ -261,10 +261,10 @@
<!--l. 61--><p class="noindent" >TeX Live contains binaries for many Unix-based platforms, including GNU/Linux, macOS,
and Cygwin. The included sources can be compiled on platforms for which we do not provide
binaries.
-</p><!--l. 65--><p class="indent" > As to Windows: Windows 7 and later are supported. Windows Vista <span
-class="ec-lmri-12">may </span>still mostly
-work, but TeX Live will no longer even install on Windows XP or earlier. TeX Live includes
-64-bit executables for Windows.
+</p><!--l. 65--><p class="indent" > As to Windows: Windows 10 and later are supported. Windows 7 and Vista <span
+class="ec-lmri-12">may </span>still
+mostly work, but TeX Live will no longer even install on Windows XP or earlier. TeX Live
+includes 64-bit executables for Windows.
</p><!--l. 70--><p class="indent" > See section <a
href="#x1-90002.1">2.1<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:tl-coll-dists --></a> for alternate solutions for Windows and macOS.
@@ -949,9 +949,10 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">install-unx.tar.gz </span>for
Unix only. After unpacking, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">install-tl </span>and <span
-class="ec-lmtt-12">install-tl-windows.bat </span>will be in
- the <span
-class="ec-lmtt-12">install-tl </span>subdirectory.
+class="ec-lmtt-12">install-tl-windows.bat </span>will be
+ in the subdirectory <span
+class="ec-lmtt-12">install-tl-yyyymmdd</span>, where yyyymmdd represents the date
+ when the installer was generated.
</p></dd><dt class="description">
<span
class="ec-lmbx-12">Net installer, Windows .exe:</span> </dt><dd
@@ -1172,12 +1173,12 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">install-tl-windows.exe</span>. This will not normally be the case, unless you’ve mirrored the
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlnet </span>directory locally.
-</p><!--l. 607--><p class="indent" > Non-ASCII characters in the path for the TeX Live installation must be avoided. This may
-be a problem particularly under Windows 11, where users are forced to use a Microsoft
-network account. See <a
+</p><!--l. 607--><p class="indent" > Non-ASCII characters in the path for the TeX Live installation must be
+avoided. This may be a problem particularly under Windows 11, where users are
+forced to create a Microsoft network account upon installation of Windows. See
+<a
href="https://tug.org/texlive/windows.html\#nonascii" class="url" ><span
-class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/texlive/windows.html\#nonascii</span></a> for some
-workarounds.
+class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/texlive/windows.html\#nonascii</span></a> for some workarounds.
</p>
<figure class="figure">
@@ -1379,7 +1380,7 @@
id="x1-18062r3"></a>
-<!--l. 651--><p class="noindent" ><img
+<!--l. 652--><p class="noindent" ><img
src="../texlive-common/basic-w32.png" alt="Basic installer screen (Windows)"
/>
</p>
@@ -1398,7 +1399,7 @@
id="x1-18063r4"></a>
-<!--l. 657--><p class="noindent" ><img
+<!--l. 658--><p class="noindent" ><img
src="../texlive-common/advanced-lnx.png" alt="Advanced installer screen (GNU/Linux)"
/>
</p>
@@ -1407,11 +1408,11 @@
</figure>
-<!--l. 663--><p class="indent" > <a id="cygwin"></a>
+<!--l. 664--><p class="indent" > <a id="cygwin"></a>
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">3.1.4 </span> <a
id="x1-190003.1.4"></a>Cygwin</h5>
-<!--l. 667--><p class="noindent" >Before beginning the installation, use Cygwin’s <span
+<!--l. 668--><p class="noindent" >Before beginning the installation, use Cygwin’s <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">setup.exe </span>program to install the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">perl </span>and
either <span
@@ -1420,39 +1421,39 @@
packages are recommended: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 672--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 673--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">fontconfig </span>[needed by XeTeX and LuaTeX]
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 673--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 674--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">ghostscript </span>[needed by various utilities]
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 674--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 675--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">libXaw7 </span>[needed by <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">xdvi</span>]
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 675--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 676--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">ncurses </span>[provides the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">clear </span>command used by the installer]</p></li></ul>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">3.1.5 </span> <a
id="x1-200003.1.5"></a>The text installer</h5>
-<!--l. 681--><p class="noindent" >Figure <a
+<!--l. 682--><p class="noindent" >Figure <a
href="#x1-18061r2">2<!--tex4ht:ref: fig:text-main --></a> displays the main text mode screen under Unix. The text installer is the default on
Unix.
-</p><!--l. 684--><p class="indent" > This is only a command-line installer; there is no cursor support at all. For instance, you
+</p><!--l. 685--><p class="indent" > This is only a command-line installer; there is no cursor support at all. For instance, you
cannot tab around checkboxes or input fields. You just type something (case-sensitive) at the
prompt and press the Enter key, and then the entire terminal screen will be rewritten, with
adjusted content.
-</p><!--l. 690--><p class="indent" > The text installer interface is this primitive in order to make it run on as many platforms
+</p><!--l. 691--><p class="indent" > The text installer interface is this primitive in order to make it run on as many platforms
as possible, even with a minimal Perl.
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">3.1.6 </span> <a
id="x1-210003.1.6"></a>The graphical installer</h5>
-<!--l. 696--><p class="noindent" >The default graphical installer starts out simple, with just a few options; see figure <a
+<!--l. 697--><p class="noindent" >The default graphical installer starts out simple, with just a few options; see figure <a
href="#x1-18062r3">3<!--tex4ht:ref: fig:basic-w32 --></a>. It can
be started with </p><div class="alltt">
@@ -1468,7 +1469,7 @@
</div> The Advanced button gives access to most of the options of the text installer; see
figure <a
href="#x1-18063r4">4<!--tex4ht:ref: fig:advanced-lnx --></a>.
-<!--l. 704--><p class="indent" > The <span
+<!--l. 705--><p class="indent" > The <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">perltk</span>/<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">expert </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">wizard </span>GUI options now invoke the regular graphical
@@ -1477,7 +1478,7 @@
</p>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">3.2 </span> <a
id="x1-220003.2"></a>Running the installer</h4>
-<!--l. 710--><p class="noindent" >The installer is intended to be mostly self-explanatory, but following are a few notes about the
+<!--l. 711--><p class="noindent" >The installer is intended to be mostly self-explanatory, but following are a few notes about the
various options and submenus.
</p>
@@ -1678,7 +1679,7 @@
</figure>
-<!--l. 740--><p class="indent" > Figure <a
+<!--l. 741--><p class="indent" > Figure <a
href="#x1-23035r5">5<!--tex4ht:ref: fig:bin-text --></a> displays the text mode binaries menu. By default, only the binaries for your
current platform will be installed. From this menu, you can select installation of binaries for
other platforms as well. This can be useful if you are sharing a TeX tree across a network of
@@ -1822,7 +1823,7 @@
</figure>
-<!--l. 770--><p class="indent" > Figure <a
+<!--l. 771--><p class="indent" > Figure <a
href="#x1-24027r6">6<!--tex4ht:ref: fig:scheme-text --></a> displays the TeX Live scheme menu; from here, you choose a “scheme”, which is
an overall set of package collections. The default <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">full </span>scheme installs everything available.
@@ -1844,7 +1845,7 @@
id="x1-24028r7"></a>
-<!--l. 782--><p class="noindent" ><img
+<!--l. 783--><p class="noindent" ><img
src="../texlive-common/stdcoll.png" alt="Collections menu"
/>
</p>
@@ -1853,14 +1854,14 @@
</figure>
-<!--l. 786--><p class="indent" > You can refine your scheme selection with the ‘collections’ menu (figure <a
+<!--l. 787--><p class="indent" > You can refine your scheme selection with the ‘collections’ menu (figure <a
href="#x1-24028r7">7<!--tex4ht:ref: fig:collections-gui --></a>, shown in
GUI mode for a change).
-</p><!--l. 789--><p class="indent" > Collections are one level more detailed than schemes — in essence, a scheme consists of
+</p><!--l. 790--><p class="indent" > Collections are one level more detailed than schemes — in essence, a scheme consists of
several collections, a collection consists of one or more packages, and a package (the lowest
level grouping in TeX Live) contains the actual TeX macro files, font files, and so
on.
-</p><!--l. 794--><p class="indent" > If you want more control than the collection menus provide, you can use the TeX
+</p><!--l. 795--><p class="indent" > If you want more control than the collection menus provide, you can use the TeX
Live Manager (<span
class="ec-lmss-12">tlmgr</span>) program after installation (see section <a
href="#x1-430005">5<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:tlmgr --></a>); using that, you can control
@@ -1869,7 +1870,7 @@
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">3.2.3 </span> <a
id="x1-250003.2.3"></a>Directories</h5>
-<!--l. 802--><p class="noindent" >The default layout is described in section <a
+<!--l. 803--><p class="noindent" >The default layout is described in section <a
href="#x1-110002.3">2.3<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:texmftrees --></a>, p. <a
href="#x1-110002.3">10<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:texmftrees --></a>. The default installation directory is
<span
@@ -1877,7 +1878,7 @@
enables having many parallel TeX Live installations, such as one for each release (typically by
year, as here), and you can switch between them merely by altering your search
path.
-</p><!--l. 810--><p class="indent" > That installation directory can be overridden by setting the so-called <span
+</p><!--l. 811--><p class="indent" > That installation directory can be overridden by setting the so-called <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXDIR </span>in the
installer. The GUI screen for this and other options is shown in figure <a
href="#x1-18063r4">4<!--tex4ht:ref: fig:advanced-lnx --></a>. The most common
@@ -1885,9 +1886,9 @@
Live needs several gigabytes), or lacking write permission for the default location (you don’t
have to be root or administrator to install TeX Live, but you do need write access to the
target directory).
-</p><!--l. 818--><p class="indent" > On Windows, you normally do not need to be an administrator to create <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">C:\texlive\2025</code></span>
+</p><!--l. 819--><p class="indent" > On Windows, you normally do not need to be an administrator to create <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">C:\texlive\2025</code></span>
(or, more generally, <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">%SystemDrive%\texlive\2025</code></span>).
-</p><!--l. 822--><p class="indent" > The installation directories can also be changed by setting a variety of environment
+</p><!--l. 823--><p class="indent" > The installation directories can also be changed by setting a variety of environment
variables before running the installer (most likely, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXLIVE_INSTALL_PREFIX </span>or
<span
@@ -1896,32 +1897,37 @@
href="https://tug.org/texlive/doc/install-tl.html" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/texlive/doc/install-tl.html</span></a>) for the full list and more
details.
-</p><!--l. 830--><p class="indent" > A reasonable alternative destination is a directory under your home, especially if you will
+</p><!--l. 831--><p class="indent" > A reasonable alternative destination is a directory under your home, especially if you will
be the sole user. Use ‘<span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">~</code></span>’ to indicate this, as in ‘<span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">~/texlive/2025</code></span>’.
-</p><!--l. 834--><p class="indent" > We recommend including the year in the name, to enable keeping different releases of TeX
+</p><!--l. 835--><p class="indent" > But do not use your home directory on Windows if the name of your home or ‘userprofile’
+contains non-ASCII characters. We are looking into possible solutions, but cannot promise
+anything at this point. See also <a
+href="https://tug.org/texlive/windows.html\#nonascii" class="url" ><span
+class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/texlive/windows.html\#nonascii</span></a>.
+</p><!--l. 840--><p class="indent" > We recommend including the year in the name, to enable keeping different releases of TeX
Live side by side. (You may wish to also maintain a version-independent name, such as
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">/usr/local/texlive-cur</span>, via a symbolic link, which you can then repoint after testing the
new release.)
-</p><!--l. 839--><p class="indent" > Changing <span
+</p><!--l. 845--><p class="indent" > Changing <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXDIR </span>in the installer will also change <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFLOCAL</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFSYSVAR </span>and
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFSYSCONFIG</span>.
-</p><!--l. 843--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 849--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFHOME </span>is the recommended location for personal macro files or packages. The default
value is <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">~/texmf</code></span> (<span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">~/Library/texmf</code></span> on Macs). In contrast to <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXDIR</span>, here a <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">~</code></span> is preserved in
+
+
the newly-written configuration files, since it usefully refers to the home directory of the user
running TeX. It expands to <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">$HOME </span>on Unix and <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">%USERPROFILE%</code></span> on Windows. Special
redundant note: <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFHOME</span>, like all trees, must be organized according to the TDS, or files
-
-
may not be found.
-</p><!--l. 852--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 858--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFVAR </span>is the location for storing most cached runtime data specific to each user.
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFCACHE </span>is the variable name used for that purpose by LuaLaTeX and ConTeXt MkIV
@@ -2115,19 +2121,19 @@
</figure>
-<!--l. 882--><p class="indent" > Figure <a
+<!--l. 888--><p class="indent" > Figure <a
href="#x1-26025r8">8<!--tex4ht:ref: fig:options-text --></a> shows the text mode options menu. More info on each:
</p><dl class="description"><dt class="description">
<span
class="ec-lmbx-12">use letter size instead of A4 by default:</span> </dt><dd
class="description">
- <!--l. 886--><p class="noindent" >The default paper size selection. Of course, individual documents can and should
+ <!--l. 892--><p class="noindent" >The default paper size selection. Of course, individual documents can and should
specify a specific paper size, if desired.
</p></dd><dt class="description">
<span
class="ec-lmbx-12">execution of restricted list of programs:</span> </dt><dd
class="description">
- <!--l. 890--><p class="noindent" >As of TeX Live 2010, execution of a few external programs is allowed by default.
+ <!--l. 896--><p class="noindent" >As of TeX Live 2010, execution of a few external programs is allowed by default.
The (very short) list of allowed programs is given in the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf.cnf</span>. See the 2010
news (section <a
@@ -2136,7 +2142,7 @@
<span
class="ec-lmbx-12">create all format files:</span> </dt><dd
class="description">
- <!--l. 895--><p class="noindent" >We recommend leaving this option checked, to avoid unnecessary problems when
+ <!--l. 901--><p class="noindent" >We recommend leaving this option checked, to avoid unnecessary problems when
creating formats dynamically. See the <span
class="ec-lmss-12">fmtutil </span>documentation for more details.
</p></dd><dt class="description">
@@ -2145,13 +2151,13 @@
class="ec-lmbx-12">…</span><span
class="ec-lmbx-12"> tree:</span> </dt><dd
class="description">
- <!--l. 899--><p class="noindent" >Download/install the documentation and source files included in most packages.
+ <!--l. 905--><p class="noindent" >Download/install the documentation and source files included in most packages.
Unchecking is not recommended.
</p></dd><dt class="description">
<span
class="ec-lmbx-12">create symlinks in standard directories:</span> </dt><dd
class="description">
- <!--l. 903--><p class="noindent" >This option (Unix only) bypasses the need to change environment variables.
+ <!--l. 909--><p class="noindent" >This option (Unix only) bypasses the need to change environment variables.
Without this option, TeX Live directories usually have to be added to <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">PATH</span>,
<span
@@ -2167,7 +2173,7 @@
<span
class="ec-lmbx-12">after install, set CTAN as source for package updates:</span> </dt><dd
class="description">
- <!--l. 914--><p class="noindent" >When installing from a DVD or ISO image, this option is enabled by default, since
+ <!--l. 920--><p class="noindent" >When installing from a DVD or ISO image, this option is enabled by default, since
usually one wants to take any subsequent package updates from the CTAN area
that is updated throughout the year. The only likely reason to disable it is if you
install only a subset from the DVD and plan to augment the installation later. In
@@ -2175,18 +2181,18 @@
can be set independently as needed; see section <a
href="#x1-280003.3.1">3.3.1<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:location --></a> and section <a
href="#x1-320003.4.3">3.4.3<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:dvd-install-net-updates --></a>.</p></dd></dl>
-<!--l. 925--><p class="noindent" >Windows-specific options, as displayed in the advanced GUI interface:
+<!--l. 931--><p class="noindent" >Windows-specific options, as displayed in the advanced GUI interface:
</p><dl class="description"><dt class="description">
<span
class="ec-lmbx-12">adjust searchpath</span> </dt><dd
class="description">
- <!--l. 928--><p class="noindent" >This ensures that all programs will see the TeX Live binary directory on their
+ <!--l. 934--><p class="noindent" >This ensures that all programs will see the TeX Live binary directory on their
search path.
</p></dd><dt class="description">
<span
class="ec-lmbx-12">add menu shortcuts</span> </dt><dd
class="description">
- <!--l. 931--><p class="noindent" >If set, there will be a TeX Live submenu of the Start menu. There is a third
+ <!--l. 937--><p class="noindent" >If set, there will be a TeX Live submenu of the Start menu. There is a third
option ‘Launcher entry’ besides ‘TeX Live menu’ and ‘No shortcuts’. This option
@@ -2196,14 +2202,14 @@
<span
class="ec-lmbx-12">File associations</span> </dt><dd
class="description">
- <!--l. 936--><p class="noindent" >The options are ‘Only new’ (create file associations, but do not overwrite existing
+ <!--l. 942--><p class="noindent" >The options are ‘Only new’ (create file associations, but do not overwrite existing
ones), ‘All’ and ‘None’.
</p></dd><dt class="description">
<span
class="ec-lmbx-12">install TeXworks front end</span> </dt><dd
class="description">
- <!--l. 940--><p class="noindent" ></p></dd></dl>
-<!--l. 942--><p class="noindent" >When all the settings are to your liking, you can type ‘I’ in the text interface, or press the ‘Install’
+ <!--l. 946--><p class="noindent" ></p></dd></dl>
+<!--l. 948--><p class="noindent" >When all the settings are to your liking, you can type ‘I’ in the text interface, or press the ‘Install’
button in the GUI, to start the installation process. When it is done, skip to section <a
href="#x1-290003.4">3.4<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:postinstall --></a> to
read what else needs to be done, if anything.
@@ -2211,7 +2217,7 @@
</p>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">3.3 </span> <a
id="x1-270003.3"></a>Command-line install-tl options</h4>
-<!--l. 951--><p class="noindent" >Type </p><div class="alltt">
+<!--l. 957--><p class="noindent" >Type </p><div class="alltt">
<div class="obeylines-v">
<br /><span
@@ -2222,12 +2228,12 @@
</div>
</div> for a listing of command-line options. Either <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">-</code></span> or <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">--</code></span> can be used to introduce option names.
These are the most common ones:
-<!--l. 958--><p class="noindent" >
+<!--l. 964--><p class="noindent" >
</p><dl class="list1"><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">-gui</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 959--><p class="noindent" >Use the GUI installer if possible. This requires Tcl/Tk version 8.5 or higher.
+ <!--l. 965--><p class="noindent" >Use the GUI installer if possible. This requires Tcl/Tk version 8.5 or higher.
This was distributed with older macOS; for Big Sur and later, you’ll need to
install Tcl/Tk yourself, if you don’t choose to use the MacTeX installer. Tcl/Tk
is distributed with TeX Live on Windows. The legacy options <span
@@ -2239,13 +2245,13 @@
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">-no-gui</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 968--><p class="noindent" >Force using the text mode installer.
+ <!--l. 974--><p class="noindent" >Force using the text mode installer.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">-lang </span><span
class="ec-lmro-12">LL</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 970--><p class="noindent" >Specify the installer interface language as a standard (usually two-letter) code.
+ <!--l. 976--><p class="noindent" >Specify the installer interface language as a standard (usually two-letter) code.
The installer tries to automatically determine the right language but if it fails,
or if the right language is not available, then it uses English as a fallback. Run
<span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">install-tl --help</code></span> to get the list of available languages.
@@ -2253,7 +2259,7 @@
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">-portable</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 977--><p class="noindent" >Install for portable use on, e.g., a USB stick. Also selectable from within the text
+ <!--l. 983--><p class="noindent" >Install for portable use on, e.g., a USB stick. Also selectable from within the text
installer with the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">V </span>command, and from the GUI installer. See section <a
href="#x1-420004.2">4.2<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:portable-tl --></a>.
@@ -2264,7 +2270,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">-profile </span><span
class="ec-lmro-12">file</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 982--><p class="noindent" >Load the installation profile <span
+ <!--l. 988--><p class="noindent" >Load the installation profile <span
class="ec-lmro-12">file </span>and do the installation with no user interaction.
The installer always writes a file <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texlive.profile </span>to the <span
@@ -2278,13 +2284,13 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">-repository </span><span
class="ec-lmro-12">url-or-directory</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 991--><p class="noindent" >Specify package repository from which to install; see following.
- </p><!--l. 994--><p class="noindent" ><a id="opt-in-place"></a>
+ <!--l. 997--><p class="noindent" >Specify package repository from which to install; see following.
+ </p><!--l. 1000--><p class="noindent" ><a id="opt-in-place"></a>
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">-in-place</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 995--><p class="noindent" >(Documented only for completeness: Do not use this unless you know what
+ <!--l. 1001--><p class="noindent" >(Documented only for completeness: Do not use this unless you know what
you are doing.) If you already have an rsync, svn, or other copy of TeX Live
(see <a
href="https://tug.org/texlive/acquire-mirror.html" class="url" ><span
@@ -2298,11 +2304,11 @@
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">3.3.1 </span> <a
id="x1-280003.3.1"></a>The <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">-repository </span>option</h5>
-<!--l. 1010--><p class="noindent" >The default network package repository is a CTAN mirror chosen automatically via
+<!--l. 1016--><p class="noindent" >The default network package repository is a CTAN mirror chosen automatically via
<a
href="https://mirror.ctan.org" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://mirror.ctan.org</span></a>.
-</p><!--l. 1013--><p class="indent" > If you want to override that, the location value can be a url starting with <span
+</p><!--l. 1019--><p class="indent" > If you want to override that, the location value can be a url starting with <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">ftp:</span>,
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">http:</span>, <span
@@ -2315,7 +2321,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">/</span>’ characters and/or a trailing ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">/tlpkg</span>’ component are
ignored.)
-</p><!--l. 1020--><p class="indent" > For example, you could choose a particular CTAN mirror with something like:
+</p><!--l. 1026--><p class="indent" > For example, you could choose a particular CTAN mirror with something like:
<a
href="http://ctan.example.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">http://ctan.example.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/</span></a>, substituting a real
@@ -2323,16 +2329,16 @@
list of CTAN mirrors is maintained at <a
href="https://ctan.org/mirrors" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://ctan.org/mirrors</span></a>.
-</p><!--l. 1026--><p class="indent" > If the given argument is local (either a path or a <span
+</p><!--l. 1032--><p class="indent" > If the given argument is local (either a path or a <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">file:/ </span>url), compressed files in an
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">archive </span>subdirectory of the repository path are used (even if uncompressed files are available
as well).
-</p><!--l. 1030--><p class="indent" > <a id="postinstall"></a>
+</p><!--l. 1036--><p class="indent" > <a id="postinstall"></a>
</p>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">3.4 </span> <a
id="x1-290003.4"></a>Post-install actions</h4>
-<!--l. 1034--><p class="noindent" >Some post-installation may be required.
+<!--l. 1040--><p class="noindent" >Some post-installation may be required.
@@ -2339,26 +2345,26 @@
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">3.4.1 </span> <a
id="x1-300003.4.1"></a>Environment variables for Unix</h5>
-<!--l. 1039--><p class="noindent" >If you elected to create symlinks in standard directories (described in section <a
+<!--l. 1045--><p class="noindent" >If you elected to create symlinks in standard directories (described in section <a
href="#x1-260003.2.4">3.2.4<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:options --></a>), then there
is no need to edit environment variables. Otherwise, on Unix systems, the directory of the
binaries for your platform must be added to the search path. (On Windows, the installer takes
care of this.)
-</p><!--l. 1045--><p class="indent" > Each supported platform has its own subdirectory under <span
+</p><!--l. 1051--><p class="indent" > Each supported platform has its own subdirectory under <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXDIR/bin</span>. See figure <a
href="#x1-23035r5">5<!--tex4ht:ref: fig:bin-text --></a> for the
list of subdirectories and corresponding platforms.
-</p><!--l. 1049--><p class="indent" > Optionally, you can also add the documentation man and Info directories to their
+</p><!--l. 1055--><p class="indent" > Optionally, you can also add the documentation man and Info directories to their
respective search paths, if you want the system tools to find them. The man pages might be
found automatically after the addition to <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">PATH</span>.
-</p><!--l. 1054--><p class="indent" > For Bourne-compatible shells such as <span
+</p><!--l. 1060--><p class="indent" > For Bourne-compatible shells such as <span
class="ec-lmss-12">bash</span>, and using Intel x86 GNU/Linux and the TeX
Live default directory setup as an example, the file to edit might be <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">$HOME/.profile </span>(or
another file sourced by <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">.profile</span>), and the lines to add would look like this:
-</p><!--l. 1059--><p class="indent" >
+</p><!--l. 1065--><p class="indent" >
</p>
<pre class="fancyvrb" id="fancyvrb5"><a
id="x1-30002r1"></a><span
@@ -2375,10 +2381,10 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10x-x-109">INFOPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2025/texmf-dist/doc/info:$INFOPATH;</span><span
class="ec-lmtt-10x-x-109"> export</span><span
class="ec-lmtt-10x-x-109"> INFOPATH</span></pre>
-<!--l. 1065--><p class="indent" > For csh or tcsh, the file to edit is typically <span
+<!--l. 1071--><p class="indent" > For csh or tcsh, the file to edit is typically <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">$HOME/.cshrc</span>, and the lines to add might look
like:
-</p><!--l. 1068--><p class="indent" >
+</p><!--l. 1074--><p class="indent" >
</p>
<pre class="fancyvrb" id="fancyvrb6"><a
id="x1-30008r1"></a><span
@@ -2395,11 +2401,11 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10x-x-109">setenv</span><span
class="ec-lmtt-10x-x-109"> INFOPATH</span><span
class="ec-lmtt-10x-x-109"> /usr/local/texlive/2025/texmf-dist/doc/info:$INFOPATH</span></pre>
-<!--l. 1074--><p class="indent" > If you’re not on an <span
+<!--l. 1080--><p class="indent" > If you’re not on an <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">x86_64-linux </span>platform, use the appropriate platform name; similarly,
if you didn’t install in the default directory, change the directory name. The TeX Live installer
reports the full lines to use at the end of installation.
-</p><!--l. 1079--><p class="indent" > If you already have <span
+</p><!--l. 1085--><p class="indent" > If you already have <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">PATH </span>settings somewhere in your startup files, merge in the TeX
Live directories as you see fit.
@@ -2406,13 +2412,13 @@
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">3.4.2 </span> <a
id="x1-310003.4.2"></a>Environment variables: Global configuration</h5>
-<!--l. 1086--><p class="noindent" >If you want to make these changes globally, or for a user newly added to the system, then you
+<!--l. 1092--><p class="noindent" >If you want to make these changes globally, or for a user newly added to the system, then you
are on your own; there is just too much variation between systems in how and where these
things are configured.
-</p><!--l. 1090--><p class="indent" > Our two hints are: 1) you may want to check for a file <span
+</p><!--l. 1096--><p class="indent" > Our two hints are: 1) you may want to check for a file <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">/etc/manpath.config </span>and, if
present, add lines such as
-</p><!--l. 1093--><p class="indent" >
+</p><!--l. 1099--><p class="indent" >
</p>
<pre class="fancyvrb" id="fancyvrb7"><a
id="x1-31002r1"></a><span
@@ -2433,10 +2439,10 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10x-x-109"> </span><span
class="ec-lmtt-10x-x-109"> </span><span
class="ec-lmtt-10x-x-109"> /usr/local/texlive/2025/texmf-dist/doc/man</span></pre>
-<!--l. 1098--><p class="indent" > And 2) check for a file <span
+<!--l. 1104--><p class="indent" > And 2) check for a file <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">/etc/environment </span>which may define the search path and other
default environment variables.
-</p><!--l. 1101--><p class="indent" > In each (Unix) binary directory, we also create a symbolic link named <span
+</p><!--l. 1107--><p class="indent" > In each (Unix) binary directory, we also create a symbolic link named <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">man </span>to the directory
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf-dist/doc/man</span>. Some <span
@@ -2448,11 +2454,11 @@
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">3.4.3 </span> <a
- id="x1-320003.4.3"></a>Internet updates after DVD installation</h5>
-<!--l. 1110--><p class="noindent" >If you installed TeX Live from DVD and then wish to get updates from the Internet, you need
-to run this command—<span
-class="ec-lmri-12">after </span>you’ve updated your search path (as described in the previous
-section):
+ id="x1-320003.4.3"></a>Internet updates after DVD or ISO installation</h5>
+<!--l. 1116--><p class="noindent" >If you installed TeX Live from DVD or an ISO image and then wish to get updates from the
+Internet, you need to run this command—<span
+class="ec-lmri-12">after </span>you’ve updated your search path (as described
+in the previous section):
</p>
<div class="alltt">
@@ -2466,28 +2472,28 @@
class="ec-lmtk-10x-x-120"> https://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet</span>
</div>
</div>
-<!--l. 1118--><p class="indent" > This tells <span
+<!--l. 1124--><p class="indent" > This tells <span
class="ec-lmss-12">tlmgr </span>to use a nearby CTAN mirror for future updates. This is done by default
when installing from DVD, via the option described in section <a
href="#x1-260003.2.4">3.2.4<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:options --></a>.
-</p><!--l. 1122--><p class="indent" > If there are problems with the automatic mirror selection, you can specify a particular
+</p><!--l. 1128--><p class="indent" > If there are problems with the automatic mirror selection, you can specify a particular
CTAN mirror from the list at <a
href="https://ctan.org/mirrors" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://ctan.org/mirrors</span></a>. Use the exact path to the
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlnet </span>subdir on that mirror, as shown above.
-</p><!--l. 1128--><p class="indent" > <a id="xetexfontconfig"></a> <a id="sysfontconfig"></a>
+</p><!--l. 1134--><p class="indent" > <a id="xetexfontconfig"></a> <a id="sysfontconfig"></a>
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">3.4.4 </span> <a
id="x1-330003.4.4"></a>System font configuration for XeTeX and LuaTeX</h5>
-<!--l. 1133--><p class="noindent" >XeTeX and LuaTeX can use any font installed on the system, not just those in the
+<!--l. 1139--><p class="noindent" >XeTeX and LuaTeX can use any font installed on the system, not just those in the
TeX trees. Such system fonts (not part of TeX Live) are usually accessed by giving the
font name, e.g., ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">Liberation Serif</span>’, although the system filename can also be
used.
-</p><!--l. 1138--><p class="indent" > A related issue is making the fonts from the TeX Live distribution available as system
+</p><!--l. 1144--><p class="indent" > A related issue is making the fonts from the TeX Live distribution available as system
fonts, which will in turn make them available by font name.
-</p><!--l. 1141--><p class="indent" > For LuaTeX: for access by font name, nothing special need be done. All fonts in TeX
+</p><!--l. 1147--><p class="indent" > For LuaTeX: for access by font name, nothing special need be done. All fonts in TeX
Live should be equally accessible by either font name or filename to LuaTeX, via the <span
class="ec-lmss-12">luaotfload</span>
package, which supports both LaTeX and plain TeX. The <span
@@ -2494,12 +2500,12 @@
class="ec-lmss-12">luaotfload </span>font name index may
need to be rebuilt for new fonts; this is triggered automatically when trying to load a font
which isn’t known yet.
-</p><!--l. 1148--><p class="indent" > For XeTeX: on Windows, fonts shipped with TeX Live are automatically made available
+</p><!--l. 1154--><p class="indent" > For XeTeX: on Windows, fonts shipped with TeX Live are automatically made available
(by running the <span
class="ec-lmss-12">fc-cache </span>program provided for Windows as part of TeX Live). For the Mac,
you’ll need to consult other documentation. For Unix systems other than macOS, the
procedure is the following.
-</p><!--l. 1154--><p class="indent" > When the <span
+</p><!--l. 1160--><p class="indent" > When the <span
class="ec-lmss-12">xetex </span>package is installed (either at initial installation or later), the necessary
configuration file is created in <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFSYSVAR/fonts/conf/texlive-fontconfig.conf</span>. To
@@ -2509,7 +2515,7 @@
class="enumerate" id="x1-33002x1">
- <!--l. 1159--><p class="noindent" >Copy that <span
+ <!--l. 1165--><p class="noindent" >Copy that <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texlive-fontconfig.conf </span>file to (typically)
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">/etc/fonts/conf.d/09-texlive.conf</span>.
@@ -2516,14 +2522,14 @@
</p></li>
<li
class="enumerate" id="x1-33004x2">
- <!--l. 1161--><p class="noindent" >Run <span
+ <!--l. 1167--><p class="noindent" >Run <span
class="ec-lmtk-10x-x-120">fc-cache -fsv</span>.</p></li></ol>
-<!--l. 1164--><p class="indent" > If you do not have sufficient privileges to carry out the steps above, or if you want to make
+<!--l. 1170--><p class="indent" > If you do not have sufficient privileges to carry out the steps above, or if you want to make
the TeX Live fonts available to only one user, you can do the following:
</p><ol class="enumerate1" >
<li
class="enumerate" id="x1-33006x1">
- <!--l. 1168--><p class="noindent" >Copy the <span
+ <!--l. 1174--><p class="noindent" >Copy the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texlive-fontconfig.conf </span>file to (typically)
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">~/.fonts.conf.d/09-texlive.conf</span>, where <span
@@ -2531,9 +2537,9 @@
</p></li>
<li
class="enumerate" id="x1-33008x2">
- <!--l. 1171--><p class="noindent" >Run <span
+ <!--l. 1177--><p class="noindent" >Run <span
class="ec-lmtk-10x-x-120">fc-cache -fv</span>.</p></li></ol>
-<!--l. 1174--><p class="indent" > You can run <span
+<!--l. 1180--><p class="indent" > You can run <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">fc-list </span>to see the names of the available system fonts. The incantation
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">fc-list : family style file spacing </span>(all those arguments are literal strings) shows some
@@ -2542,10 +2548,10 @@
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">3.4.5 </span> <a
id="x1-340003.4.5"></a>ConTeXt LMTX and MKIV</h5>
-<!--l. 1184--><p class="noindent" >Both the ‘old’ ConTeXt (Mark IV or MkIV) and the ‘new’ ConTeXt (LMTX or MkXL) should
+<!--l. 1190--><p class="noindent" >Both the ‘old’ ConTeXt (Mark IV or MkIV) and the ‘new’ ConTeXt (LMTX or MkXL) should
run out of the box after TeX Live installation, and should need no special attention as long as
you stick to using <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">tlmgr</code></span> for updates.
-</p><!--l. 1189--><p class="indent" > ConTeXt does not use the Kpathsea library or the system <span
+</p><!--l. 1195--><p class="indent" > ConTeXt does not use the Kpathsea library or the system <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">ls-R </span>files; instead, ConTeXt
maintains a per-user filename database for all known trees. Running <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">mktexlsr </span>won’t update
@@ -2554,7 +2560,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">cont-sys.mkiv </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">cont-sys.mkxl </span>implement
this.)
-</p><!--l. 1196--><p class="indent" > If you ever want to manually rebuild these databases, run either or both of:
+</p><!--l. 1202--><p class="indent" > If you ever want to manually rebuild these databases, run either or both of:
</p>
<pre class="fancyvrb" id="fancyvrb8"><a
id="x1-34002r1"></a><span
@@ -2580,13 +2586,13 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10x-x-109"> </span><span
class="ec-lmtt-10x-x-109"> #</span><span
class="ec-lmtt-10x-x-109"> MkIV</span></pre>
-<!--l. 1201--><p class="noindent" >The resulting files are stored under <span
+<!--l. 1207--><p class="noindent" >The resulting files are stored under <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFCACHE</span>, whose default value in TeX Live is
<span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">TEXMFSYSVAR;TEXMFVAR</code></span>.
-</p><!--l. 1204--><p class="indent" > ConTeXt will read from all paths mentioned in <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">TEXMFCACHE</code></span>, and write to the first path
+</p><!--l. 1210--><p class="indent" > ConTeXt will read from all paths mentioned in <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">TEXMFCACHE</code></span>, and write to the first path
that is writable. While reading, the last found match will take precedence in the case of
duplicated cache data.
-</p><!--l. 1208--><p class="indent" > For more information, see <a
+</p><!--l. 1214--><p class="indent" > For more information, see <a
href="https://wiki.contextgarden.net/LMTX" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://wiki.contextgarden.net/LMTX</span></a><br
class="newline" />and <a
@@ -2598,7 +2604,7 @@
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">3.4.6 </span> <a
id="x1-350003.4.6"></a>Integrating local and personal macros</h5>
-<!--l. 1215--><p class="noindent" >This is already mentioned implicitly in section <a
+<!--l. 1221--><p class="noindent" >This is already mentioned implicitly in section <a
href="#x1-110002.3">2.3<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:texmftrees --></a>: <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFLOCAL </span>(by default,
<span
@@ -2612,7 +2618,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFLOCAL </span>to be
too far away from the main TeX Live directory, or you will need to manually change future
releases.
-</p><!--l. 1228--><p class="indent" > For both trees, files should be placed in their proper TeX Directory Structure (TDS)
+</p><!--l. 1234--><p class="indent" > For both trees, files should be placed in their proper TeX Directory Structure (TDS)
subdirectories; see <a
href="https://tug.org/tds" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/tds</span></a> or consult <span
@@ -2621,12 +2627,12 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFLOCAL/tex/latex </span>or
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFHOME/tex/latex</span>, or a subdirectory thereof.
-</p><!--l. 1234--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 1240--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFLOCAL </span>requires an up-to-date filename database, or files will not be found. You can
update it with the command <span
class="ec-lmss-12">mktexlsr </span>or use the ‘Update filename database’ button on the
‘Actions’ tab of the TeX Live Manager GUI.
-</p><!--l. 1239--><p class="indent" > By default, each of these variables is defined to be a single directory, as shown. This is not
+</p><!--l. 1245--><p class="indent" > By default, each of these variables is defined to be a single directory, as shown. This is not
a hard-and-fast requirement. If you need to easily switch back and forth between different
versions of large packages, for example, you can maintain multiple trees for your own purposes.
This is done by setting <span
@@ -2639,14 +2645,14 @@
<pre class="fancyvrb" id="fancyvrb9"><a
id="x1-35002r1"></a> TEXMFHOME = {/my/dir1,/mydir2,/a/third/dir}</pre>
</pre>
-<!--l. 1248--><p class="nopar" >
-</p><!--l. 1250--><p class="indent" > Section <a
+<!--l. 1254--><p class="nopar" >
+</p><!--l. 1256--><p class="indent" > Section <a
href="#x1-600007.1.5">7.1.5<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:brace-expansion --></a> describes brace expansion further.
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">3.4.7 </span> <a
id="x1-360003.4.7"></a>Integrating third-party fonts</h5>
-<!--l. 1255--><p class="noindent" >This is unfortunately a messy topic for TeX and pdfTeX. Forget about it unless you want to
+<!--l. 1261--><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
@@ -2653,11 +2659,11 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">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. 1262--><p class="indent" > If you do want to install your own fonts, see <a
+</p><!--l. 1268--><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-12">https://tug.org/fonts/fontinstall.html</span></a>
for our best effort at describing the procedure.
-</p><!--l. 1266--><p class="indent" > Also consider using XeTeX or LuaTeX (see section <a
+</p><!--l. 1272--><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 usually
makes your document sources unusable by anyone in a different environment.)
@@ -2665,9 +2671,9 @@
</p>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">3.5 </span> <a
id="x1-370003.5"></a>Testing the installation</h4>
-<!--l. 1275--><p class="noindent" >After installing TeX Live, you naturally want to test it out, so you can start creating beautiful
+<!--l. 1281--><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. 1278--><p class="indent" > One thing you may immediately be looking for is a front-end with which to edit files. TeX
+</p><!--l. 1284--><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-12">https://tug.org/texworks</span></a>) on Windows (only), and
@@ -2679,15 +2685,15 @@
href="https://tug.org/interest.html#editors" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/interest.html#editors</span></a>.
Any plain text editor will work; something TeX-specific is not required.
-</p><!--l. 1287--><p class="indent" > The rest of this section gives some basic procedures for testing that the new system
+</p><!--l. 1293--><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 macOS and Windows, you’re
more likely to run the tests through a graphical interface, but the principles are the
same.
-</p><!--l. 1292--><p class="indent" >
+</p><!--l. 1298--><p class="indent" >
</p><ol class="enumerate1" >
<li
class="enumerate" id="x1-37002x1">
- <!--l. 1294--><p class="noindent" >Make sure that you can run the <span
+ <!--l. 1300--><p class="noindent" >Make sure that you can run the <span
class="ec-lmss-12">tex </span>program in the first place: </p><div class="alltt">
<div class="obeylines-v">
@@ -2721,7 +2727,7 @@
</li>
<li
class="enumerate" id="x1-37004x2">
- <!--l. 1307--><p class="noindent" >Process a basic LaTeX file, generating PDF: </p><div class="alltt">
+ <!--l. 1313--><p class="noindent" >Process a basic LaTeX file, generating PDF: </p><div class="alltt">
<div class="obeylines-v">
<br /><span
@@ -2761,7 +2767,7 @@
</li>
<li
class="enumerate" id="x1-37006x3">
- <!--l. 1322--><p class="noindent" >Preview the PDF file, for example: </p><div class="alltt">
+ <!--l. 1328--><p class="noindent" >Preview the PDF file, for example: </p><div class="alltt">
<div class="obeylines-v">
<br /><span
@@ -2772,7 +2778,7 @@
</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. 1330--><p class="noindent" >Of course there are many other PDF viewers; on Unix systems, <span
+ <!--l. 1336--><p class="noindent" >Of course there are many other PDF viewers; on Unix systems, <span
class="ec-lmss-12">evince </span>and
<span
class="ec-lmss-12">okular </span>are commonly used. For Windows, we recommend trying Sumatra PDF (
@@ -2784,7 +2790,7 @@
</p></li>
<li
class="enumerate" id="x1-37008x4">
- <!--l. 1337--><p class="noindent" >Of course you can still generate TeX’s original DVI format: </p><div class="alltt">
+ <!--l. 1343--><p class="noindent" >Of course you can still generate TeX’s original DVI format: </p><div class="alltt">
<div class="obeylines-v">
@@ -2799,7 +2805,7 @@
</li>
<li
class="enumerate" id="x1-37010x5">
- <!--l. 1342--><p class="noindent" >And preview the DVI online: </p><div class="alltt">
+ <!--l. 1348--><p class="noindent" >And preview the DVI online: </p><div class="alltt">
<div class="obeylines-v">
<br /><span
@@ -2831,7 +2837,7 @@
</li>
<li
class="enumerate" id="x1-37012x6">
- <!--l. 1351--><p class="noindent" >To create a PostScript file from the DVI: </p><div class="alltt">
+ <!--l. 1357--><p class="noindent" >To create a PostScript file from the DVI: </p><div class="alltt">
<div class="obeylines-v">
<br /><span
@@ -2846,7 +2852,7 @@
</li>
<li
class="enumerate" id="x1-37014x7">
- <!--l. 1356--><p class="noindent" >Or to create PDF from the DVI, an alternate path to using pdfTeX (or XeTeX or
+ <!--l. 1362--><p class="noindent" >Or to create PDF from the DVI, an alternate path to using pdfTeX (or XeTeX or
LuaTeX) which can be useful sometimes: </p><div class="alltt">
<div class="obeylines-v">
@@ -2862,14 +2868,14 @@
</li>
<li
class="enumerate" id="x1-37016x8">
- <!--l. 1362--><p class="noindent" >Other standard test files you may find useful in addition to <span
+ <!--l. 1368--><p class="noindent" >Other standard test files you may find useful in addition to <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">sample2e.tex</span>:
- </p><!--l. 1365--><p class="noindent" >
+ </p><!--l. 1371--><p class="noindent" >
</p><dl class="list2"><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">small2e.tex</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1366--><p class="noindent" >A simpler document than <span
+ <!--l. 1372--><p class="noindent" >A simpler document than <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">sample2e</span>, to reduce the input size if you’re having
troubles.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
@@ -2876,7 +2882,7 @@
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">testpage.tex</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1368--><p class="noindent" >Test if your printer introduces any offsets.
+ <!--l. 1374--><p class="noindent" >Test if your printer introduces any offsets.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
@@ -2883,17 +2889,17 @@
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">nfssfont.tex</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1369--><p class="noindent" >For printing font tables and tests.
+ <!--l. 1375--><p class="noindent" >For printing font tables and tests.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">testfont.tex</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1370--><p class="noindent" >Also for font tables, but using plain TeX.
+ <!--l. 1376--><p class="noindent" >Also for font tables, but using plain TeX.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">story.tex</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1371--><p class="noindent" >The most canonical (plain) TeX test file of all. You must type ‘<span
+ <!--l. 1377--><p class="noindent" >The most canonical (plain) TeX test file of all. You must type ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\bye</span>’ to the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">*</span>
prompt after ‘<span
@@ -2901,7 +2907,7 @@
</li>
<li
class="enumerate" id="x1-37018x9">
- <!--l. 1376--><p class="noindent" >If you have installed the <span
+ <!--l. 1382--><p class="noindent" >If you have installed the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">xetex </span>package, you can test its access to system fonts as
follows: </p><div class="alltt">
@@ -2934,17 +2940,17 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12"> opentype-info.log.</span>
</div>
</div>
- <!--l. 1386--><p class="noindent" >If you get an error message saying “Invalid fontname ‘Latin Modern Roman/ICU’…”,
+ <!--l. 1392--><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. 1393--><p class="indent" > <a id="uninstall"></a>
+<!--l. 1399--><p class="indent" > <a id="uninstall"></a>
</p>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">3.6 </span> <a
id="x1-380003.6"></a>Uninstalling TeX Live</h4>
-<!--l. 1397--><p class="noindent" >To uninstall TeX Live (after a successful installation; for Windows, see below):
+<!--l. 1403--><p class="noindent" >To uninstall TeX Live (after a successful installation; for Windows, see below):
</p>
<div class="alltt">
@@ -2957,13 +2963,13 @@
class="ec-lmtk-10x-x-120"> --all</span>
</div>
</div>
-<!--l. 1404--><p class="indent" > You will be asked for confirmation, else nothing will be done. (Without <span
+<!--l. 1410--><p class="indent" > You will be asked for confirmation, else nothing will be done. (Without <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">--all</span>, the
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">uninstall </span>action is used to remove individual packages.)
-</p><!--l. 1408--><p class="indent" > This does not remove user-specific directories, namely (see also section <a
+</p><!--l. 1414--><p class="indent" > This does not remove user-specific directories, namely (see also section <a
href="#x1-110002.3">2.3<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:texmftrees --></a>):
-</p><!--l. 1411--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 1417--><p class="noindent" >
</p><dl class="list1"><dt class="list">
@@ -2970,49 +2976,49 @@
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFCONFIG</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1412--><p class="noindent" >This is intended for user configuration changes. If you want to preserve them, be
+ <!--l. 1418--><p class="noindent" >This is intended for user configuration changes. If you want to preserve them, be
sure you know how to recreate them before removing.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFVAR</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1416--><p class="noindent" >This is intended to store automatically-generated runtime data, such as local format
+ <!--l. 1422--><p class="noindent" >This is intended to store automatically-generated runtime data, such as local format
files. Unless you’ve used it for other purposes, it should be safe to remove.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFHOME</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1420--><p class="noindent" >Contains only files you yourself installed, typically those not available in the
+ <!--l. 1426--><p class="noindent" >Contains only files you yourself installed, typically those not available in the
distributions. Unless you are completely stopping using TeX, or want to start over
from scratch, you probably don’t want to remove this.
</p>
</dd></dl>
-<!--l. 1427--><p class="noindent" >You can find the directory paths for these variables by running <span
+<!--l. 1433--><p class="noindent" >You can find the directory paths for these variables by running <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">kpsewhich -var-value=</span><span
class="ec-lmro-12">var</span>.
-</p><!--l. 1430--><p class="indent" > This <span
+</p><!--l. 1436--><p class="indent" > This <span
class="ec-lmss-12">tlmgr </span>uninstallation also does not undo post-install actions, such as <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">PATH </span>changes in
your shell initialization files and system access to the fonts in TeX Live (see section <a
href="#x1-290003.4">3.4<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:postinstall --></a>). You
must manually reverse such actions, if desired.
-</p><!--l. 1436--><p class="indent" > On Windows, uninstallation can be done through the GUI; see section <a
+</p><!--l. 1442--><p class="indent" > On Windows, uninstallation can be done through the GUI; see section <a
href="#x1-470006.1">6.1<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:winfeatures --></a>.
</p>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">3.7 </span> <a
id="x1-390003.7"></a>Links for additional downloadable software</h4>
-<!--l. 1442--><p class="noindent" >If you are new to TeX, or otherwise need help with actually writing TeX or LaTeX
+<!--l. 1448--><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-12">https://tug.org/begin.html</span></a> for some introductory
resources.
-</p><!--l. 1446--><p class="indent" > Links for some other tools you may consider installing:
+</p><!--l. 1452--><p class="indent" > Links for some other tools you may consider installing:
</p><dl class="description"><dt class="description">
<span
class="ec-lmbx-12">Ghostscript</span> </dt><dd
class="description">
- <!--l. 1448--><p class="noindent" ><a
+ <!--l. 1454--><p class="noindent" ><a
href="https://ghostscript.com/" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://ghostscript.com/</span></a>, a free PostScript and PDF interpreter.
</p></dd><dt class="description">
@@ -3019,7 +3025,7 @@
<span
class="ec-lmbx-12">Perl</span> </dt><dd
class="description">
- <!--l. 1450--><p class="noindent" ><a
+ <!--l. 1456--><p class="noindent" ><a
href="https://perl.org/" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://perl.org/</span></a> with supplementary packages from CPAN,
<a
@@ -3029,7 +3035,7 @@
<span
class="ec-lmbx-12">ImageMagick</span> </dt><dd
class="description">
- <!--l. 1452--><p class="noindent" ><a
+ <!--l. 1458--><p class="noindent" ><a
href="https://imagemagick.org" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://imagemagick.org</span></a>, for graphics processing and conversion.
</p></dd><dt class="description">
@@ -3036,7 +3042,7 @@
<span
class="ec-lmbx-12">NetPBM</span> </dt><dd
class="description">
- <!--l. 1454--><p class="noindent" ><a
+ <!--l. 1460--><p class="noindent" ><a
href="http://netpbm.sourceforge.net" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">http://netpbm.sourceforge.net</span></a>, also for graphics.
</p></dd><dt class="description">
@@ -3043,13 +3049,13 @@
<span
class="ec-lmbx-12">TeX-oriented editors</span> </dt><dd
class="description">
- <!--l. 1456--><p class="noindent" >There is a wide choice, and it is a matter of the user’s taste. Here is a selection in
+ <!--l. 1462--><p class="noindent" >There is a wide choice, and it is a matter of the user’s taste. Here is a selection in
alphabetical order (a few here are for Windows only). </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 1460--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 1466--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmss-12">GNU Emacs </span>is available for all major platforms; see
<a
href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs" class="url" ><span
@@ -3056,7 +3062,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs</span></a>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 1462--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 1468--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmss-12">AUCTeX </span>runs under Emacs; it’s available through Emacs’ package manager
<span
class="ec-lmss-12">ELPA</span>. Sources are also available from CTAN. The AUCTeX home page is
@@ -3065,13 +3071,13 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex</span></a>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 1466--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 1472--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmss-12">SciTE </span>is available from <a
href="https://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html</span></a>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 1468--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 1474--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmss-12">Texmaker </span>is free software, available from
<a
href="https://www.xm1math.net/texmaker" class="url" ><span
@@ -3078,7 +3084,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://www.xm1math.net/texmaker</span></a>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 1470--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 1476--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmss-12">TeXstudio </span>started as a fork of <span
class="ec-lmss-12">Texmaker </span>and given additional features; available
from <a
@@ -3086,7 +3092,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://texstudio.org/</span></a>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 1473--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 1479--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmss-12">TeXnicCenter </span>is free software, available from
<a
href="https://www.texniccenter.org" class="url" ><span
@@ -3093,7 +3099,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://www.texniccenter.org</span></a>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 1475--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 1481--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmss-12">TeXworks </span>is free software, available from <a
href="https://tug.org/texworks" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/texworks</span></a> and
@@ -3100,13 +3106,13 @@
installed as part of TeX Live for Windows (only).
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 1478--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 1484--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmss-12">Vim </span>is free software, available from <a
href="https://www.vim.org" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://www.vim.org</span></a>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 1480--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 1486--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmss-12">WinEdt </span>is shareware available though <a
href="https://tug.org/winedt" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/winedt</span></a> or
@@ -3115,12 +3121,12 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://www.winedt.com</span></a>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 1482--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 1488--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmss-12">WinShell </span>is available from <a
href="https://www.winshell.de" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://www.winshell.de</span></a>.</p></li></ul>
</dd></dl>
-<!--l. 1485--><p class="noindent" >For a much longer list of packages and programs, see <a
+<!--l. 1491--><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-12">https://tug.org/interest.html</span></a>.
@@ -3127,15 +3133,15 @@
</p>
<h3 class="sectionHead"><span class="titlemark">4 </span> <a
id="x1-400004"></a>Specialized installations</h3>
-<!--l. 1491--><p class="noindent" >The previous sections described the basic installation process. Here we turn to some
+<!--l. 1497--><p class="noindent" >The previous sections described the basic installation process. Here we turn to some
specialized cases.
-</p><!--l. 1494--><p class="indent" > <a id="tlsharedinstall"></a>
+</p><!--l. 1500--><p class="indent" > <a id="tlsharedinstall"></a>
</p>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">4.1 </span> <a
id="x1-410004.1"></a>Shared-user (or cross-machine) installations</h4>
-<!--l. 1498--><p class="noindent" >TeX Live has been designed to be shared between different systems on a network. With a
+<!--l. 1504--><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
@@ -3163,11 +3169,11 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10x-x-109">TEXMFLOCAL</span><span
class="ec-lmtt-10x-x-109"> =</span><span
class="ec-lmtt-10x-x-109"> $SELFAUTOGRANDPARENT/texmf-local</span></pre>
-<!--l. 1511--><p class="noindent" >This means that adding the directory for TeX Live executables for their platform to their search
+<!--l. 1517--><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. 1514--><p class="indent" > By the same token, you can also install TeX Live locally and then move the entire
+</p><!--l. 1520--><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. 1517--><p class="indent" > For Windows, TeX Live includes a launcher <span
+</p><!--l. 1523--><p class="indent" > For Windows, TeX Live includes a launcher <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlaunch</span>. Its main window contains menu
entries and buttons for various TeX-related programs and documentation, customizable
via an <span
@@ -3181,17 +3187,17 @@
<a
href="https://ctan.org/pkg/tlaunch" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://ctan.org/pkg/tlaunch</span></a>).
-</p><!--l. 1528--><p class="indent" > <a id="tlportable"></a>
+</p><!--l. 1534--><p class="indent" > <a id="tlportable"></a>
</p>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">4.2 </span> <a
id="x1-420004.2"></a>Portable (USB) installations</h4>
-<!--l. 1532--><p class="noindent" >The <span
+<!--l. 1538--><p class="noindent" >The <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">-portable </span>installer option (or <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">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. 1538--><p class="indent" > Technically, the portable installation is made self-contained by setting the default values of
+</p><!--l. 1544--><p class="indent" > Technically, the portable installation is made self-contained by setting the default values of
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFHOME</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFVAR</span>, and <span
@@ -3201,17 +3207,17 @@
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFSYSCONFIG </span>respectively; thus, per-user configuration and caches will not be
created.
-</p><!--l. 1544--><p class="indent" > To run TeX using this portable installation, you need to add the appropriate binary
+</p><!--l. 1550--><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. 1548--><p class="indent" > On Windows, you can double-click <span
+</p><!--l. 1554--><p class="indent" > On Windows, you can double-click <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">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. 1553--><p class="indent" > <img
+</p><!--l. 1559--><p class="indent" > <img
src="../texlive-common/tray-menu.png" alt="Windows tray menu"
/>
-</p><!--l. 1556--><p class="noindent" >The ‘More…’ entry explains how you can customize this menu.
-</p><!--l. 1615--><p class="indent" > <a id="tlmgr"></a>
+</p><!--l. 1562--><p class="noindent" >The ‘More…’ entry explains how you can customize this menu.
+</p><!--l. 1621--><p class="indent" > <a id="tlmgr"></a>
</p>
@@ -3226,7 +3232,7 @@
id="x1-43001r9"></a>
-<!--l. 1621--><p class="noindent" ><img
+<!--l. 1627--><p class="noindent" ><img
src="../texlive-common/tlshell-linux.png" alt="tlshell GUI, showing the Actions menu (GNU/Linux)"
/>
</p>
@@ -3244,7 +3250,7 @@
id="x1-43002r10"></a>
-<!--l. 1628--><p class="noindent" ><img
+<!--l. 1634--><p class="noindent" ><img
src="../texlive-common/tlcockpit-packages.png" alt="tlcockpit GUI for tlmgr"
/>
</p>
@@ -3263,7 +3269,7 @@
id="x1-43003r11"></a>
-<!--l. 1635--><p class="noindent" ><img
+<!--l. 1641--><p class="noindent" ><img
src="../texlive-common/tlmgr-gui.png" alt="Legacy tlmgr GUI mode: main window, after ‘Load’"
/>
</p>
@@ -3273,26 +3279,26 @@
</figure>
-<!--l. 1640--><p class="indent" > TeX Live includes a program named <span
+<!--l. 1646--><p class="indent" > TeX Live includes a program named <span
class="ec-lmss-12">tlmgr </span>for managing TeX Live after the initial
installation. Its capabilities include:
</p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 1644--><p class="noindent" >installing, updating, backing up, restoring, and uninstalling individual packages,
+ <!--l. 1650--><p class="noindent" >installing, updating, backing up, restoring, and uninstalling individual packages,
optionally taking dependencies into account;
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 1646--><p class="noindent" >searching for and listing packages and their descriptions;
+ <!--l. 1652--><p class="noindent" >searching for and listing packages and their descriptions;
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 1647--><p class="noindent" >listing, adding, and removing platforms;
+ <!--l. 1653--><p class="noindent" >listing, adding, and removing platforms;
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 1648--><p class="noindent" >changing installation options such as paper size and source location (see
+ <!--l. 1654--><p class="noindent" >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>).</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 1652--><p class="indent" > <span
+<!--l. 1658--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmss-12">tlmgr</span>’s functionality completely subsumes the <span
class="ec-lmss-12">texconfig </span>program. We still distribute and
maintain <span
@@ -3304,7 +3310,7 @@
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">5.1 </span> <a
id="x1-440005.1"></a>GUI interfaces for <span
class="ec-lmss-12">tlmgr</span></h4>
-<!--l. 1659--><p class="noindent" >TeX Live contains several GUI front-ends for <span
+<!--l. 1665--><p class="noindent" >TeX Live contains several GUI front-ends for <span
class="ec-lmss-12">tlmgr</span>. Two notable ones: (1) Figure <a
href="#x1-43001r9">9<!--tex4ht:ref: fig:tlshell --></a> shows
<span
@@ -3313,7 +3319,7 @@
shows <span
class="ec-lmss-12">tlcockpit</span>, which requires Java version 8 or higher and JavaFX. Both are separate
packages.
-</p><!--l. 1665--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 1671--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmss-12">tlmgr </span>also has a native GUI mode (shown in figure <a
href="#x1-43003r11">11<!--tex4ht:ref: fig:tlmgr-gui --></a>), which is started with:
</p><div class="alltt">
@@ -3331,7 +3337,7 @@
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">5.2 </span> <a
id="x1-450005.2"></a>Sample <span
class="ec-lmss-12">tlmgr </span>command-line invocations</h4>
-<!--l. 1675--><p class="noindent" >After the initial installation, you can update your system to the latest versions available with:
+<!--l. 1681--><p class="noindent" >After the initial installation, you can update your system to the latest versions available with:
</p><div class="alltt">
@@ -3366,7 +3372,7 @@
class="ec-lmtk-10x-x-120"> -list</span>
</div>
</div>
-<!--l. 1689--><p class="indent" > This more complex example adds a collection, for the engine XeTeX, from a local
+<!--l. 1695--><p class="indent" > This more complex example adds a collection, for the engine XeTeX, from a local
directory:
</p>
<div class="alltt">
@@ -3451,11 +3457,11 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10">fmtutil:</span><span
class="ec-lmtt-10"> /usr/local/texlive/2025/texmf-var/web2c/xetex/xelatex.fmt</span><span
class="ec-lmtt-10"> installed.</span></pre>
-<!--l. 1715--><p class="indent" > As you can see, <span
+<!--l. 1721--><p class="indent" > As you can see, <span
class="ec-lmss-12">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. 1720--><p class="indent" > To describe a package (or collection or scheme): </p><div class="alltt">
+</p><!--l. 1726--><p class="indent" > To describe a package (or collection or scheme): </p><div class="alltt">
<div class="obeylines-v">
<br /><span
@@ -3520,7 +3526,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10"> </span><span
class="ec-lmtt-10"> </span><span
class="ec-lmtt-10"> 657941k</span></pre>
-<!--l. 1735--><p class="indent" > Last and most important, for full documentation see <a
+<!--l. 1741--><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-12">https://tug.org/texlive/tlmgr.html</span></a>,
or: </p><div class="alltt">
@@ -3541,12 +3547,12 @@
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">6.1 </span> <a
id="x1-470006.1"></a>Windows-specific features</h4>
-<!--l. 1748--><p class="noindent" >Under Windows, the installer does some extra things:
+<!--l. 1754--><p class="noindent" >Under Windows, the installer does some extra things:
</p><dl class="description"><dt class="description">
<span
class="ec-lmbx-12">Menus and shortcuts.</span> </dt><dd
class="description">
- <!--l. 1750--><p class="noindent" >A new ‘TeX Live’ submenu of the Start menu is installed. This contains entries for
+ <!--l. 1756--><p class="noindent" >A new ‘TeX Live’ submenu of the Start menu is installed. This contains entries for
some GUI programs, such as <span
class="ec-lmss-12">tlshell </span>(a GUI for <span
class="ec-lmss-12">tlmgr</span>) and <span
@@ -3556,7 +3562,7 @@
<span
class="ec-lmbx-12">File associations.</span> </dt><dd
class="description">
- <!--l. 1755--><p class="noindent" >If enabled, <span
+ <!--l. 1761--><p class="noindent" >If enabled, <span
class="ec-lmss-12">TeXworks </span>and <span
class="ec-lmss-12">Dviout </span>become either the default program for their
respective filetypes, or get an entry in the ‘Open with’ right-click menus of those
@@ -3566,31 +3572,26 @@
<span
class="ec-lmbx-12">PostScript support.</span> </dt><dd
class="description">
- <!--l. 1762--><p class="noindent" >For PostScript files, a PSviewer filetype now converts PostScript to a temporary
- PDF, which is then displayed by the default PDF viewer. Various bitmapped
- formats get an entry <span
-class="ec-lmss-12">bitmap2eps </span>in their ‘Open with’ right-click menu for converting
- to EPS, letting <span
-class="ec-lmss-12">sam2p </span>or <span
-class="ec-lmss-12">bmeps </span>do the real work.
+ <!--l. 1768--><p class="noindent" >For PostScript files, a PSviewer filetype now converts PostScript to a temporary
+ PDF, which is then displayed by the default PDF viewer.
</p></dd><dt class="description">
<span
class="ec-lmbx-12">Automatic path adjustment.</span> </dt><dd
class="description">
- <!--l. 1769--><p class="noindent" >No manual configuration steps are required.
+ <!--l. 1772--><p class="noindent" >No manual configuration steps are required.
</p></dd><dt class="description">
<span
class="ec-lmbx-12">Uninstaller.</span> </dt><dd
class="description">
- <!--l. 1771--><p class="noindent" >The installer creates an entry for TeX Live, either under ‘Add/Remove Programs’
+ <!--l. 1774--><p class="noindent" >The installer creates an entry for TeX Live, either under ‘Add/Remove Programs’
(admin installation) or under the TeX Live menu (single-user installation).
</p></dd><dt class="description">
<span
class="ec-lmbx-12">Write-protect.</span> </dt><dd
class="description">
- <!--l. 1775--><p class="noindent" >For an admin installation, the TeX Live directories are write-protected, at least if
+ <!--l. 1778--><p class="noindent" >For an admin installation, the TeX Live directories are write-protected, at least if
TeX Live is installed on a normal NTFS-formatted non-removable disk.</p></dd></dl>
-<!--l. 1780--><p class="indent" > Also, have a look at <span
+<!--l. 1783--><p class="indent" > Also, have a look at <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlaunch</span>, described in section <a
href="#x1-410004.1">4.1<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:sharedinstall --></a>, for a different approach.
@@ -3597,17 +3598,17 @@
</p>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">6.2 </span> <a
id="x1-480006.2"></a>Additional software included on Windows</h4>
-<!--l. 1785--><p class="noindent" >To be complete, a TeX Live installation needs support programs that are not commonly found
+<!--l. 1788--><p class="noindent" >To be complete, a TeX Live installation needs support programs 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. 1789--><p class="indent" >
-
-
+</p><!--l. 1792--><p class="indent" >
</p><dl class="description"><dt class="description">
<span
class="ec-lmbx-12">Perl, Tcl/Tk and Ghostscript.</span> </dt><dd
class="description">
- <!--l. 1790--><p class="noindent" >Because of the importance of Perl and Ghostscript, and because the installer and
+
+
+ <!--l. 1793--><p class="noindent" >Because of the importance of Perl and Ghostscript, and because the installer and
tlshell GUIs are written in Tcl/Tk, TeX Live includes ‘hidden’ copies of these
programs. TeX Live programs that need them know where to find them, but they
don’t betray their presence through environment variables or registry settings.
@@ -3620,7 +3621,7 @@
<span
class="ec-lmbx-12">dviout.</span> </dt><dd
class="description">
- <!--l. 1801--><p class="noindent" >Also installed is <span
+ <!--l. 1804--><p class="noindent" >Also installed is <span
class="ec-lmss-12">dviout</span>, a DVI viewer. At first, when you preview files with <span
class="ec-lmss-12">dviout</span>,
it will create fonts, because screen fonts were not installed. After a while, you will
@@ -3630,12 +3631,12 @@
<span
class="ec-lmbx-12">TeXworks.</span> </dt><dd
class="description">
- <!--l. 1808--><p class="noindent" >TeXworks is a TeX-oriented editor with an integrated PDF viewer.
+ <!--l. 1811--><p class="noindent" >TeXworks is a TeX-oriented editor with an integrated PDF viewer.
</p></dd><dt class="description">
<span
class="ec-lmbx-12">Command-line tools.</span> </dt><dd
class="description">
- <!--l. 1811--><p class="noindent" >A number of Windows ports of common Unix command-line programs are installed
+ <!--l. 1814--><p class="noindent" >A number of Windows ports of common Unix command-line programs are installed
along with the usual TeX Live binaries. These include <span
class="ec-lmss-12">gzip</span>, <span
class="ec-lmss-12">zip</span>, <span
@@ -3649,7 +3650,7 @@
class="ec-lmbx-12">fc-list, fc-cache, </span><span
class="ec-lmbx-12">…</span> </dt><dd
class="description">
- <!--l. 1817--><p class="noindent" >The tools from the <span
+ <!--l. 1820--><p class="noindent" >The tools from the <span
class="ec-lmss-12">fontconfig </span>library allow XeTeX to find system fonts on Windows.
You can use <span
class="ec-lmss-12">fc-list </span>to determine the font names to pass to XeTeX’s extended <span
@@ -3661,12 +3662,12 @@
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">6.3 </span> <a
id="x1-490006.3"></a>Using external Perl, Tcl/Tk and Ghostscript installations</h4>
-<!--l. 1829--><p class="noindent" >Normally, TeX Live will use its built-in Perl, Tcl/Tk and Ghostscript also for contributed
+<!--l. 1832--><p class="noindent" >Normally, TeX Live will use its built-in Perl, Tcl/Tk and Ghostscript also for contributed
scripts within TeX Live. If you wish to use your own external versions, then you can configure
that in the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf.cnf </span>file <span
class="ec-lmri-12">in the root of the installation</span>.
-</p><!--l. 1834--><p class="indent" > For Perl, you need to add a line
+</p><!--l. 1837--><p class="indent" > For Perl, you need to add a line
</p>
@@ -3674,13 +3675,13 @@
<pre class="fancyvrb" id="fancyvrb13"><a
id="x1-49002r1"></a>TEXLIVE_WINDOWS_TRY_EXTERNAL_PERL = 1</pre>
</pre>
-<!--l. 1837--><p class="nopar" >TeX Live (specifically, <span
+<!--l. 1840--><p class="nopar" >TeX Live (specifically, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">bin/windows/runscript.tlu</span>) will then search for <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">perl.exe </span>on the
search path, except for scripts which belong to the TeX Live infrastructure. This is the most
likely setting of the three to be useful; although the TeX Live Perl includes many additional
modules, it cannot support all third-party scripts.
-</p><!--l. 1844--><p class="indent" > Similarly, for Tcl/Tk you need a line
+</p><!--l. 1847--><p class="indent" > Similarly, for Tcl/Tk you need a line
</p>
@@ -3688,7 +3689,7 @@
<pre class="fancyvrb" id="fancyvrb14"><a
id="x1-49004r1"></a>TEXLIVE_WINDOWS_TRY_EXTERNAL_TCL = 1</pre>
</pre>
-<!--l. 1847--><p class="nopar" >TeX Live will then search for <span
+<!--l. 1850--><p class="nopar" >TeX Live will then search for <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tclkit.exe</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">wish.exe</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">wish85.exe</span>, <span
@@ -3695,7 +3696,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">wish86.exe </span>and
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">wish87.exe </span>on the searchpath.
-</p><!--l. 1852--><p class="indent" > Ghostscript is handled differently, in that you need to specify the filename or the full path
+</p><!--l. 1855--><p class="indent" > Ghostscript is handled differently, in that you need to specify the filename or the full path
of your command-line Ghostscript: </p><div class="alltt">
<div class="obeylines-v">
@@ -3711,7 +3712,7 @@
</div> Another difference is that the Ghostscript shipped with TeX Live is complete, with only
documentation and printer drivers omitted. So it’s unlikely you’ll have any need to override
it.
-<!--l. 1861--><p class="indent" > See also section <a
+<!--l. 1864--><p class="indent" > See also section <a
href="#x1-570007.1.2">7.1.2<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:configfiles --></a> about <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf.cnf</span>.
@@ -3718,7 +3719,7 @@
</p>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">6.4 </span> <a
id="x1-500006.4"></a>User Profile is Home</h4>
-<!--l. 1867--><p class="noindent" >The Windows counterpart of a Unix home directory is the <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">%USERPROFILE%</code></span> directory. Under
+<!--l. 1870--><p class="noindent" >The Windows counterpart of a Unix home directory is the <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">%USERPROFILE%</code></span> directory. Under
Windows Vista and later it is <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">C:\Users\<username></code></span>. In the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf.cnf </span>file, and Kpathsea in
general, <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">~</code></span> will expand appropriately on both Windows and Unix.
@@ -3726,7 +3727,7 @@
</p>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">6.5 </span> <a
id="x1-510006.5"></a>The Windows registry</h4>
-<!--l. 1877--><p class="noindent" >Windows stores nearly all configuration data in its registry. The registry contains a set of
+<!--l. 1880--><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-12">HKEY_CURRENT_USER</span></span> and <span class="path"><span
@@ -3738,7 +3739,7 @@
href="#x1-500006.4">6.4<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:winhome --></a>). <span class="path"><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">HKLM</span></span> is normally in a subdirectory of the Windows
directory.
-</p><!--l. 1885--><p class="indent" > In some cases, system information could be obtained from environment variables
+</p><!--l. 1888--><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.
@@ -3746,27 +3747,27 @@
</p>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">6.6 </span> <a
id="x1-520006.6"></a>Windows permissions</h4>
-<!--l. 1894--><p class="noindent" >In later versions of Windows, a distinction is made between regular users and administrators,
+<!--l. 1897--><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. 1899--><p class="indent" > If the installer is started with administrative permissions, there is an option to install for
+</p><!--l. 1902--><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. 1905--><p class="indent" > Regardless of administrator status, the default root of TeX Live proposed by the installer is
+</p><!--l. 1908--><p class="indent" > Regardless of administrator status, the default root of TeX Live proposed by the installer is
always under <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">%SystemDrive%</code></span>. The installer always tests whether the root is writable for the
current user.
-</p><!--l. 1909--><p class="indent" > A problem may arise if the user is not an administrator and TeX already exists in the
+</p><!--l. 1912--><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
+user search path, the new TeX Live would never get precedence. As a workaround, 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 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. 1919--><p class="indent" > You should be aware that even if you are logged in as administrator, you need to explicitly
+</p><!--l. 1922--><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’.
@@ -3774,7 +3775,7 @@
</p>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">6.7 </span> <a
id="x1-530006.7"></a>Increasing maximum memory on Windows and Cygwin</h4>
-<!--l. 1929--><p class="noindent" >Windows and Cygwin (see section <a
+<!--l. 1932--><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
@@ -3781,13 +3782,13 @@
class="ec-lmss-12">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. 1936--><p class="indent" > For Cygwin, you can increase the amount of available memory by following the instructions
+</p><!--l. 1939--><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-12">https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-maxmem.html</span></a>).
-</p><!--l. 1940--><p class="indent" > For Windows, you have to create a file, say <span
+</p><!--l. 1943--><p class="indent" > For Windows, you have to create a file, say <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">moremem.reg</span>, with these four lines:
-</p><!--l. 1943--><p class="indent" >
+</p><!--l. 1946--><p class="indent" >
</p>
<pre class="fancyvrb" id="fancyvrb15"><a
id="x1-53002r1"></a><span
@@ -3804,7 +3805,7 @@
<a
id="x1-53008r4"></a><span
class="ec-lmtt-10x-x-109">"heap_chunk_in_mb"=dword:ffffff00</span></pre>
-<!--l. 1950--><p class="noindent" >and then execute the command <span
+<!--l. 1953--><p class="noindent" >and then execute the command <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">regedit /s moremem.reg </span>as administrator. (If
you want to change memory only for the current user instead of system-wide, use
<span
@@ -3813,7 +3814,7 @@
</p>
<h3 class="sectionHead"><span class="titlemark">7 </span> <a
id="x1-540007"></a>A user’s guide to Web2C</h3>
-<!--l. 1957--><p class="noindent" >Web2C is an integrated collection of TeX-related programs: TeX itself, Metafont, MetaPost,
+<!--l. 1960--><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
@@ -3820,7 +3821,7 @@
and more, is <a
href="https://tug.org/web2c" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/web2c</span></a>.
-</p><!--l. 1962--><p class="indent" > A bit of history: The original implementation was by Tomas Rokicki who, in
+</p><!--l. 1965--><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
@@ -3827,62 +3828,62 @@
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. 1971--><p class="indent" > The Web2C system runs on Unix, Windows, macOS, and other operating systems. It uses
+</p><!--l. 1974--><p class="indent" > The Web2C system runs on Unix, Windows, macOS, and other operating systems. It uses
Knuth’s original sources for TeX and other basic programs written in the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">WEB </span>literate
programming system and translates them into C source code. The core TeX programs handled
in this way are:
-</p><!--l. 1977--><p class="indent" >
+</p><!--l. 1980--><p class="indent" >
</p><dl class="list1"><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-12">bibtex</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1978--><p class="noindent" >Maintaining bibliographies.
+ <!--l. 1981--><p class="noindent" >Maintaining bibliographies.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-12">dvicopy</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1979--><p class="noindent" >Expands virtual font references in DVI files.
+ <!--l. 1982--><p class="noindent" >Expands virtual font references in DVI files.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-12">dvitomp</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1980--><p class="noindent" >DVI to MPX (MetaPost pictures).
+ <!--l. 1983--><p class="noindent" >DVI to MPX (MetaPost pictures).
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-12">dvitype</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1981--><p class="noindent" >DVI to human-readable text.
+ <!--l. 1984--><p class="noindent" >DVI to human-readable text.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-12">gftodvi</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1982--><p class="noindent" >Generic font proofsheets.
+ <!--l. 1985--><p class="noindent" >Generic font proofsheets.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-12">gftopk</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1983--><p class="noindent" >Generic to packed fonts.
+ <!--l. 1986--><p class="noindent" >Generic to packed fonts.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-12">gftype</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1984--><p class="noindent" >GF to human-readable text.
+ <!--l. 1987--><p class="noindent" >GF to human-readable text.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-12">mf </span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1985--><p class="noindent" >Creating typeface families.
+ <!--l. 1988--><p class="noindent" >Creating typeface families.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-12">mft</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1986--><p class="noindent" >Prettyprinting Metafont source.
+ <!--l. 1989--><p class="noindent" >Prettyprinting Metafont source.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-12">mpost</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1987--><p class="noindent" >Creating technical diagrams.
+ <!--l. 1990--><p class="noindent" >Creating technical diagrams.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-12">patgen</span> </dt><dd
@@ -3889,84 +3890,84 @@
class="list">
- <!--l. 1988--><p class="noindent" >Creating hyphenation patterns.
+ <!--l. 1991--><p class="noindent" >Creating hyphenation patterns.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-12">pktogf</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1989--><p class="noindent" >Packed to generic fonts.
+ <!--l. 1992--><p class="noindent" >Packed to generic fonts.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-12">pktype</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1990--><p class="noindent" >PK to human-readable text.
+ <!--l. 1993--><p class="noindent" >PK to human-readable text.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-12">pltotf</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1991--><p class="noindent" >Plain text property list to TFM.
+ <!--l. 1994--><p class="noindent" >Plain text property list to TFM.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-12">pooltype</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1992--><p class="noindent" >Display <span
+ <!--l. 1995--><p class="noindent" >Display <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">WEB </span>pool files.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-12">tangle</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1993--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 1996--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">WEB </span>to Pascal.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-12">tex </span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1994--><p class="noindent" >Typesetting.
+ <!--l. 1997--><p class="noindent" >Typesetting.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-12">tftopl</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1995--><p class="noindent" >TFM to plain text property list.
+ <!--l. 1998--><p class="noindent" >TFM to plain text property list.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-12">vftovp</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1996--><p class="noindent" >Virtual font to virtual property list.
+ <!--l. 1999--><p class="noindent" >Virtual font to virtual property list.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-12">vptovf</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1997--><p class="noindent" >Virtual property list to virtual font.
+ <!--l. 2000--><p class="noindent" >Virtual property list to virtual font.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmss-12">weave</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 1998--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 2001--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">WEB </span>to TeX.</p></dd></dl>
-<!--l. 2001--><p class="noindent" >The precise functions and syntax of these programs are described in the documentation of
+<!--l. 2004--><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. 2006--><p class="indent" > All programs honor these standard GNU options:
+</p><!--l. 2009--><p class="indent" > All programs honor these standard GNU options:
</p><dl class="list1"><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">--help</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2008--><p class="noindent" >print basic usage summary.
+ <!--l. 2011--><p class="noindent" >print basic usage summary.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">--version</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2009--><p class="noindent" >print version information, then exit.</p></dd></dl>
-<!--l. 2012--><p class="indent" > And most also honor:
+ <!--l. 2012--><p class="noindent" >print version information, then exit.</p></dd></dl>
+<!--l. 2015--><p class="indent" > And most also honor:
</p><dl class="list1"><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">--verbose</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2014--><p class="noindent" >print detailed progress report.</p></dd></dl>
+ <!--l. 2017--><p class="noindent" >print detailed progress report.</p></dd></dl>
-<!--l. 2017--><p class="indent" > For locating files the Web2C programs use the path searching library Kpathsea (
+<!--l. 2020--><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-12">https://tug.org/kpathsea</span></a>). This library uses a combination of environment variables and
@@ -3980,8 +3981,8 @@
</p>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">7.1 </span> <a
id="x1-550007.1"></a>Kpathsea path searching</h4>
-<!--l. 2031--><p class="noindent" >Let us first describe the generic path searching mechanism of the Kpathsea library.
-</p><!--l. 2034--><p class="indent" > We call a <span
+<!--l. 2034--><p class="noindent" >Let us first describe the generic path searching mechanism of the Kpathsea library.
+</p><!--l. 2037--><p class="indent" > We call a <span
class="ec-lmri-12">search path </span>a colon- or semicolon-separated list of <span
class="ec-lmri-12">path elements</span>, which are
basically directory names. A search path can come from (a combination of) many sources. To
@@ -3992,12 +3993,12 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">./my-file</span>, then <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">/dir/my-file</span>, returning the first match (or possibly all
matches).
-</p><!--l. 2042--><p class="indent" > In order to adapt optimally to all operating systems’ conventions, on non-Unix
+</p><!--l. 2045--><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-12">:</span>’) and slash
(‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">/</span>’).
-</p><!--l. 2046--><p class="indent" > To check a particular path element <span
+</p><!--l. 2049--><p class="indent" > To check a particular path element <span
class="ec-lmro-12">p</span>, Kpathsea first checks if a prebuilt database (see
“Filename database” on page <a
href="#x1-630007.2">82<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:filename-database --></a>) applies to <span
@@ -4005,7 +4006,7 @@
a prefix of <span
class="ec-lmro-12">p</span>. If so, the path specification is matched against the contents of the
database.
-</p><!--l. 2052--><p class="indent" > Although the simplest and most common path element is a directory name, Kpathsea
+</p><!--l. 2055--><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
@@ -4012,7 +4013,7 @@
class="ec-lmri-12">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. 2061--><p class="indent" > Note that if the filename being searched for is absolute or explicitly relative, i.e., starts
+</p><!--l. 2064--><p class="indent" > Note that if the filename being searched for is absolute or explicitly relative, i.e., starts
with ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">/</span>’ or ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">./</span>’ or ‘<span
@@ -4021,13 +4022,13 @@
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">7.1.1 </span> <a
id="x1-560007.1.1"></a>Path sources</h5>
-<!--l. 2078--><p class="noindent" >A search path can come from many sources. In the order in which Kpathsea uses
+<!--l. 2081--><p class="noindent" >A search path can come from many sources. In the order in which Kpathsea uses
them:
-</p><!--l. 2081--><p class="indent" >
+</p><!--l. 2084--><p class="indent" >
</p><ol class="enumerate1" >
<li
class="enumerate" id="x1-56002x1">
- <!--l. 2083--><p class="noindent" >A user-set environment variable, for instance, <span
+ <!--l. 2086--><p class="noindent" >A user-set environment variable, for instance, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXINPUTS</span>. Environment variables
with a period and a program name appended override; e.g., if ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">latex</span>’ is the name
@@ -4039,7 +4040,7 @@
</p></li>
<li
class="enumerate" id="x1-56004x2">
- <!--l. 2088--><p class="noindent" >A program-specific configuration file, for example, a line ‘<span
+ <!--l. 2091--><p class="noindent" >A program-specific configuration file, for example, a line ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">S /a:/b</span>’ in <span
class="ec-lmss-12">dvips</span>’s
<span
@@ -4047,7 +4048,7 @@
</p></li>
<li
class="enumerate" id="x1-56006x3">
- <!--l. 2090--><p class="noindent" >A Kpathsea configuration file <span
+ <!--l. 2093--><p class="noindent" >A Kpathsea configuration file <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf.cnf</span>, containing a line like ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXINPUTS=/c:/d</span>’
(see below).
@@ -4054,8 +4055,8 @@
</p></li>
<li
class="enumerate" id="x1-56008x4">
- <!--l. 2092--><p class="noindent" >The compile-time default.</p></li></ol>
-<!--l. 2094--><p class="noindent" >You can see each of these values for a given search path by using the debugging options (see
+ <!--l. 2095--><p class="noindent" >The compile-time default.</p></li></ol>
+<!--l. 2097--><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="#x1-670007.2.4">87<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:debugging --></a>).
@@ -4062,7 +4063,7 @@
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">7.1.2 </span> <a
id="x1-570007.1.2"></a>Config files</h5>
-<!--l. 2101--><p class="noindent" >Kpathsea reads <span
+<!--l. 2104--><p class="noindent" >Kpathsea reads <span
class="ec-lmri-12">runtime configuration files </span>named <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf.cnf </span>for search path and
other definitions. The search path <span
@@ -4069,7 +4070,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">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. 2107--><p class="indent" > Instead, normal installation results in a file <span
+</p><!--l. 2110--><p class="indent" > Instead, normal installation results in a file <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">.../2025/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
@@ -4076,7 +4077,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">.../2025/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. 2114--><p class="indent" > As an aside, if you merely wish to add a personal directory to a particular search path,
+</p><!--l. 2117--><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:
@@ -4085,7 +4086,7 @@
<pre class="fancyvrb" id="fancyvrb16"><a
id="x1-57002r1"></a> TEXINPUTS=.:/my/macro/dir:</pre>
</pre>
-<!--l. 2119--><p class="nopar" >To keep the setting maintainable and portable over the years, use a trailing ‘<span
+<!--l. 2122--><p class="nopar" >To keep the setting maintainable and portable over the years, use a trailing ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">:</span>’ (‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">;</span>’ on
Windows) to insert the system paths, instead of trying to write them all out explicitly (see
@@ -4093,7 +4094,7 @@
href="#x1-590007.1.4">7.1.4<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:default-expansion --></a>). Another option is to use the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFHOME </span>tree (see section <a
href="#x1-250003.2.3">3.2.3<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:directories --></a>).
-</p><!--l. 2126--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 2129--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmri-12">All </span><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">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"><code class="verb">.:$TEXMF</code></span>, values from <span
@@ -4102,20 +4103,20 @@
</p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2133--><p class="noindent" >Comments start with <span
+ <!--l. 2136--><p class="noindent" >Comments start with <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">%</span>, either at the beginning of a line or preceded by whitespace,
and continue to the end of the line.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2136--><p class="noindent" >Blank lines are ignored.
+ <!--l. 2139--><p class="noindent" >Blank lines are ignored.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2138--><p class="noindent" >A <span
+ <!--l. 2141--><p class="noindent" >A <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\ </span>at the end of a line acts as a continuation character, i.e., the next line is
appended. Whitespace at the beginning of continuation lines is not ignored.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2142--><p class="noindent" >Each remaining line has the form:<br
+ <!--l. 2145--><p class="noindent" >Each remaining line has the form:<br
class="newline" /> <span
class="ec-lmro-12">variable </span>[<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">.</span><span
@@ -4131,7 +4132,7 @@
name qualifier.)
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2150--><p class="noindent" >The <span
+ <!--l. 2153--><p class="noindent" >The <span
class="ec-lmro-12">variable </span>name may contain any character other than whitespace, ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">=</span>’, or ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">.</span>’,
@@ -4139,7 +4140,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">A-Za-z_</span>’ is safest.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2154--><p class="noindent" >If ‘<span
+ <!--l. 2157--><p class="noindent" >If ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">.</span><span
class="ec-lmro-12">progname</span>’ is present, the definition only applies if the program that is running
is named <span
@@ -4149,7 +4150,7 @@
different search paths, for example.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2159--><p class="noindent" >Considered as strings, <span
+ <!--l. 2162--><p class="noindent" >Considered as strings, <span
class="ec-lmro-12">value </span>may contain any character. However, in practice
most <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf.cnf </span>values are related to path expansion, and since various special
@@ -4156,7 +4157,7 @@
characters are used in expansion (see section <a
href="#x1-620007.1.7">7.1.7<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:cnf-special-chars --></a>), such as braces and commas,
they cannot be used in directory names.
- </p><!--l. 2165--><p class="noindent" >A ‘<span
+ </p><!--l. 2168--><p class="noindent" >A ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">;</span>’ in <span
class="ec-lmro-12">value </span>is translated to ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">:</span>’ if running under Unix, in order to have a single
@@ -4167,7 +4168,7 @@
happens with any value, not just search paths, but fortunately in practice ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">;</span>’ is
not needed in other values.
- </p><!--l. 2171--><p class="noindent" >The <span
+ </p><!--l. 2174--><p class="noindent" >The <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">$</span><span
class="ec-lmro-12">var</span><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">.</span><span
@@ -4175,10 +4176,10 @@
use an additional variable.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2175--><p class="noindent" >All definitions are read before anything is expanded, so variables can be referenced
+ <!--l. 2178--><p class="noindent" >All definitions are read before anything is expanded, so variables can be referenced
before they are defined.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 2178--><p class="noindent" >A configuration file fragment illustrating most of these points is shown below:
-</p><!--l. 2182--><p class="indent" >
+<!--l. 2181--><p class="noindent" >A configuration file fragment illustrating most of these points is shown below:
+</p><!--l. 2185--><p class="indent" >
</p>
<pre class="fancyvrb" id="fancyvrb17"><a
id="x1-57004r1"></a><span
@@ -4236,7 +4237,7 @@
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">7.1.3 </span> <a
id="x1-580007.1.3"></a>Path expansion</h5>
-<!--l. 2190--><p class="noindent" >Kpathsea recognizes certain special characters and constructions in search paths, similar to
+<!--l. 2193--><p class="noindent" >Kpathsea recognizes certain special characters and constructions in search paths, similar to
those available in Unix shells. As a general example, the path <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">~$USER/{foo,bar}//baz</code></span>,
expands to all subdirectories under directories <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">foo </span>and <span
@@ -4248,7 +4249,7 @@
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">7.1.4 </span> <a
id="x1-590007.1.4"></a>Default expansion</h5>
-<!--l. 2201--><p class="noindent" >If the highest-priority search path (see “Path sources” on page <a
+<!--l. 2204--><p class="noindent" >If the highest-priority search path (see “Path sources” on page <a
href="#x1-560007.1.1">75<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:path-sources --></a>) contains an <span
class="ec-lmri-12">extra colon</span>
(i.e., leading, trailing, or doubled), Kpathsea inserts at that point the next-highest-priority
@@ -4283,7 +4284,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12"> </span><span
class="ec-lmtt-12"> /home/karl:.:$TEXMF//tex</span></div>
</div>
-<!--l. 2222--><p class="indent" > Since it would be useless to insert the default value in more than one place, Kpathsea
+<!--l. 2225--><p class="indent" > Since it would be useless to insert the default value in more than one place, Kpathsea
changes only one extra ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">:</span>’ and leaves any others in place. It checks first for a leading ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">:</span>’, then
@@ -4294,7 +4295,7 @@
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">7.1.5 </span> <a
id="x1-600007.1.5"></a>Brace expansion</h5>
-<!--l. 2230--><p class="noindent" >A useful feature is brace expansion, which means that, for instance, <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">v{a,b}w</code></span> expands to
+<!--l. 2233--><p class="noindent" >A useful feature is brace expansion, which means that, for instance, <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">v{a,b}w</code></span> expands to
<span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">vaw:vbw</code></span>. Nesting is allowed. This is used to implement multiple TeX hierarchies, by assigning
a brace list to <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">$TEXMF</span>. In the distributed <span
@@ -4307,7 +4308,7 @@
<pre class="fancyvrb" id="fancyvrb18"><a
id="x1-60002r1"></a> TEXMF = {$TEXMFVAR,$TEXMFHOME,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFDIST}</pre>
</pre>
-<!--l. 2238--><p class="nopar" >We then use this to define, for example, the TeX input path:
+<!--l. 2241--><p class="nopar" >We then use this to define, for example, the TeX input path:
</p>
@@ -4315,7 +4316,7 @@
<pre class="fancyvrb" id="fancyvrb19"><a
id="x1-60004r1"></a> TEXINPUTS = .;$TEXMF/tex//</pre>
</pre>
-<!--l. 2242--><p class="nopar" >which means that, after looking in the current directory, the <span
+<!--l. 2245--><p class="nopar" >which means that, after looking in the current directory, the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">$TEXMFVAR/tex</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">$TEXMFHOME/tex</span>,
<span
@@ -4327,7 +4328,7 @@
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">7.1.6 </span> <a
id="x1-610007.1.6"></a>Subdirectory expansion</h5>
-<!--l. 2252--><p class="noindent" >Two or more consecutive slashes in a path element following a directory <span
+<!--l. 2255--><p class="noindent" >Two or more consecutive slashes in a path element following a directory <span
class="ec-lmro-12">d </span>is replaced by all
subdirectories of <span
class="ec-lmro-12">d</span>: first those subdirectories directly under <span
@@ -4335,7 +4336,7 @@
under those, and so on. At each level, the order in which the directories are searched is
<span
class="ec-lmri-12">unspecified</span>.
-</p><!--l. 2258--><p class="indent" > If you specify any filename components after the ‘<span
+</p><!--l. 2261--><p class="indent" > If you specify any filename components after the ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">//</span>’, only subdirectories with matching
components are included. For example, ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">/a//b</span>’ expands into directories <span
@@ -4345,7 +4346,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">/a/1/1/b</span>, and so on, but not <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">/a/b/c </span>or <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">/a/1</span>.
-</p><!--l. 2263--><p class="indent" > Multiple ‘<span
+</p><!--l. 2266--><p class="indent" > Multiple ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">//</span>’ constructs in a path are possible, but ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">//</span>’ at the beginning of a path is
ignored.
@@ -4354,36 +4355,36 @@
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">7.1.7 </span> <a
id="x1-620007.1.7"></a>Summary of special characters in <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf.cnf </span>files</h5>
-<!--l. 2269--><p class="noindent" >The following list summarizes the special characters and constructs in Kpathsea configuration
+<!--l. 2272--><p class="noindent" >The following list summarizes the special characters and constructs in Kpathsea configuration
files.
-</p><!--l. 2274--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 2277--><p class="noindent" >
</p><dl class="list1"><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">:</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2275--><p class="noindent" >Separator in path specification; at the beginning or the end of a path, or doubled
+ <!--l. 2278--><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-12">;</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2278--><p class="noindent" >Separator on non-Unix systems (acts like <span
+ <!--l. 2281--><p class="noindent" >Separator on non-Unix systems (acts like <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">:</span>).
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">$</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2279--><p class="noindent" >Variable expansion.
+ <!--l. 2282--><p class="noindent" >Variable expansion.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">~</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2280--><p class="noindent" >Represents the user’s home directory.
+ <!--l. 2283--><p class="noindent" >Represents the user’s home directory.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">{...}</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2281--><p class="noindent" >Brace expansion.
+ <!--l. 2284--><p class="noindent" >Brace expansion.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">,</span> </dt><dd
@@ -4390,31 +4391,31 @@
class="list">
- <!--l. 2282--><p class="noindent" >Separates items in brace expansion.
+ <!--l. 2285--><p class="noindent" >Separates items in brace expansion.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">//</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2283--><p class="noindent" >Subdirectory expansion (can occur anywhere in a path, except at its beginning).
+ <!--l. 2286--><p class="noindent" >Subdirectory expansion (can occur anywhere in a path, except at its beginning).
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">%</span> and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">#</span></dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2285--><p class="noindent" >Start of comment.
+ <!--l. 2288--><p class="noindent" >Start of comment.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2286--><p class="noindent" >At the end of a line, continuation character to allow multi-line entries.
+ <!--l. 2289--><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-12">!!</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2288--><p class="noindent" >Search <span
+ <!--l. 2291--><p class="noindent" >Search <span
class="ec-lmri-12">only </span>database to locate file, <span
class="ec-lmri-12">do not </span>search the disk.</p></dd></dl>
-<!--l. 2292--><p class="indent" > Exactly when a character will be considered special or act as itself depends on the context
+<!--l. 2295--><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
@@ -4421,19 +4422,19 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">\</span>’ is not an “escape character” in
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf.cnf </span>files.
-</p><!--l. 2299--><p class="indent" > When it comes choosing directory names for installation, it is safest to avoid them
+</p><!--l. 2302--><p class="indent" > When it comes choosing directory names for installation, it is safest to avoid them
all.
</p>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">7.2 </span> <a
id="x1-630007.2"></a>Filename databases</h4>
-<!--l. 2305--><p class="noindent" >Kpathsea goes to some lengths to minimize disk accesses for searches. Nevertheless, in the
+<!--l. 2308--><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-12">ls-R </span>that maps files to directories, thus
avoiding the need to exhaustively search the disk.
-</p><!--l. 2313--><p class="indent" > A second database file <span
+</p><!--l. 2316--><p class="indent" > A second database file <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">aliases </span>allows you to give additional names to the files listed in
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">ls-R</span>.
@@ -4441,7 +4442,7 @@
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">7.2.1 </span> <a
id="x1-640007.2.1"></a>The filename database</h5>
-<!--l. 2319--><p class="noindent" >As explained above, the name of the main filename database must be <span
+<!--l. 2322--><p class="noindent" >As explained above, the name of the main filename database must be <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">ls-R</span>. You can
put one at the root of each TeX hierarchy in your installation that you wish to be
searched (<span
@@ -4449,7 +4450,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">ls-R </span>files along the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFDBS</span>
path.
-</p><!--l. 2325--><p class="indent" > The recommended way to create and maintain ‘<span
+</p><!--l. 2328--><p class="indent" > The recommended way to create and maintain ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">ls-R</span>’ is to run the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">mktexlsr </span>script
included with the distribution. It is invoked by the various ‘<span
@@ -4478,7 +4479,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">cron</span>, so that it is
automatically updated when the installed files change, such as after installing or updating a
LaTeX package.
-<!--l. 2338--><p class="indent" > If a file is not found in the database, by default Kpathsea goes ahead and searches the disk.
+<!--l. 2341--><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-12">!!</span>’, however, <span
class="ec-lmri-12">only </span>the database will be searched for
@@ -4487,7 +4488,7 @@
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">7.2.2 </span> <a
id="x1-650007.2.2"></a>kpsewhich: Standalone path searching</h5>
-<!--l. 2347--><p class="noindent" >The <span
+<!--l. 2350--><p class="noindent" >The <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">kpsewhich </span>program exercises path searching independent of any particular application.
This can be useful as a sort of <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">find </span>program to locate files in TeX hierarchies (this is used
@@ -4513,18 +4514,18 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">-</span>’ or ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">--</span>’, and any unambiguous
abbreviation is accepted.
-<!--l. 2358--><p class="indent" > Kpathsea looks up each non-option argument on the command line as a filename, and
+<!--l. 2361--><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-12">find</span>’ utility for that).
-</p><!--l. 2363--><p class="indent" > The most common options are described next.
-</p><!--l. 2365--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 2366--><p class="indent" > The most common options are described next.
+</p><!--l. 2368--><p class="noindent" >
</p><dl class="list1"><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">--dpi=</span><span
class="ec-lmro-12">num</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2366--><p class="noindent" > Set the resolution to <span
+ <!--l. 2369--><p class="noindent" > Set the resolution to <span
class="ec-lmro-12">num</span>; this only affects ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">gf</span>’ and ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">pk</span>’ lookups. ‘<span
@@ -4536,7 +4537,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">--format=</span><span
class="ec-lmro-12">name</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2371--><p class="noindent" ><br
+ <!--l. 2374--><p class="noindent" ><br
class="newline" />Set the format for lookup to <span
class="ec-lmro-12">name</span>. By default, the format is guessed from the
filename. For formats which do not have an associated unambiguous suffix, such as
@@ -4552,7 +4553,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">--mode=</span><span
class="ec-lmro-12">string</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2379--><p class="noindent" ><br
+ <!--l. 2382--><p class="noindent" ><br
class="newline" />Set the mode name to <span
class="ec-lmro-12">string</span>; this only affects ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">gf</span>’ and ‘<span
@@ -4564,7 +4565,7 @@
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">--must-exist</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2382--><p class="noindent" ><br
+ <!--l. 2385--><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-12">ls-R </span>database is checked, in the interest of efficiency.
@@ -4573,7 +4574,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">--path=</span><span
class="ec-lmro-12">string</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2386--><p class="noindent" ><br
+ <!--l. 2389--><p class="noindent" ><br
class="newline" />Search along the path <span
class="ec-lmro-12">string </span>(colon-separated as usual), instead of guessing the
search path from the filename. ‘<span
@@ -4586,7 +4587,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">--progname=</span><span
class="ec-lmro-12">name</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2391--><p class="noindent" ><br
+ <!--l. 2394--><p class="noindent" ><br
class="newline" />Set the program name to <span
class="ec-lmro-12">name</span>. This can affect the search paths via the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">.</span><span
@@ -4598,7 +4599,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">--show-path=</span><span
class="ec-lmro-12">name</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2396--><p class="noindent" ><br
+ <!--l. 2399--><p class="noindent" ><br
class="newline" />shows the path used for file lookups of file type <span
class="ec-lmro-12">name</span>. Either a filename extension
(<span
@@ -4610,13 +4611,13 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">--debug=</span><span
class="ec-lmro-12">num</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2400--><p class="noindent" ><br
+ <!--l. 2403--><p class="noindent" ><br
class="newline" />sets the debugging options to <span
class="ec-lmro-12">num</span>.</p></dd></dl>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">7.2.3 </span> <a
id="x1-660007.2.3"></a>Examples of use</h5>
-<!--l. 2408--><p class="noindent" >Let us now have a look at Kpathsea in action. Here’s a straightforward search:
+<!--l. 2411--><p class="noindent" >Let us now have a look at Kpathsea in action. Here’s a straightforward search:
</p>
<div class="alltt">
@@ -4691,7 +4692,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12"> /usr/local/texmf-dist/bibtex/bib/beebe/tugboat.bib</span>
</div>
</div>
-<!--l. 2433--><p class="indent" > By the way, that last is a BibTeX bibliography database for <span
+<!--l. 2436--><p class="indent" > By the way, that last is a BibTeX bibliography database for <span
class="ec-lmro-12">TUGboat </span>articles.
</p>
<div class="alltt">
@@ -4745,7 +4746,7 @@
actually build the required <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">.pk </span>files using the script <span
class="ec-lmss-12">mktexpk</span>.
-<!--l. 2462--><p class="indent" > Next we turn our attention to <span
+<!--l. 2465--><p class="indent" > Next we turn our attention to <span
class="ec-lmss-12">dvips</span>’s header and configuration files. We first look at one of
the commonly used files, the general prologue <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tex.pro </span>for TeX support, before turning our
@@ -4795,7 +4796,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12"> /usr/local/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/updmap/psfonts.map</span>
</div>
</div>
-<!--l. 2480--><p class="indent" > We now take a closer look at the URW Times PostScript support files. The prefix for these
+<!--l. 2483--><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-12">utm</span>’. The first file we look at is the configuration file,
which contains the name of the map file: </p><div class="alltt">
@@ -4901,7 +4902,7 @@
</div>
</div>
-<!--l. 2519--><p class="indent" > It should be evident from these examples how you can easily locate the whereabouts of a
+<!--l. 2522--><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-12">kpsewhich </span>will show you the first file encountered.
@@ -4909,14 +4910,14 @@
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">7.2.4 </span> <a
id="x1-670007.2.4"></a>Debugging actions</h5>
-<!--l. 2527--><p class="noindent" >Sometimes it is necessary to investigate how a program resolves file references. To make this
+<!--l. 2530--><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. 2531--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 2534--><p class="noindent" >
</p><dl class="list1"><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12"> 1 </span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2532--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 2535--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">stat </span>calls (disk lookups). When running with an up-to-date <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">ls-R </span>database this
should almost give no output.
@@ -4924,49 +4925,49 @@
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12"> 2 </span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2535--><p class="noindent" >References to hash tables (such as <span
+ <!--l. 2538--><p class="noindent" >References to hash tables (such as <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">ls-R </span>databases, map files, configuration files).
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12"> 4 </span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2537--><p class="noindent" >File open and close operations.
+ <!--l. 2540--><p class="noindent" >File open and close operations.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12"> 8 </span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2538--><p class="noindent" >General path information for file types searched by Kpathsea. This is useful to find
+ <!--l. 2541--><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-12">16 </span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2541--><p class="noindent" >Directory list for each path element (only relevant for searches on disk).
+ <!--l. 2544--><p class="noindent" >Directory list for each path element (only relevant for searches on disk).
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">32 </span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2543--><p class="noindent" >File searches.
+ <!--l. 2546--><p class="noindent" >File searches.
</p></dd><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">64 </span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2544--><p class="noindent" >Variable values.</p></dd></dl>
-<!--l. 2546--><p class="noindent" >A value of <span
+ <!--l. 2547--><p class="noindent" >Variable values.</p></dd></dl>
+<!--l. 2549--><p class="noindent" >A value of <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">-1 </span>will set all the above options; in practice, this is usually the most convenient.
-</p><!--l. 2549--><p class="indent" > Similarly, with the <span
+</p><!--l. 2552--><p class="indent" > Similarly, with the <span
class="ec-lmss-12">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. 2555--><p class="indent" > Generally speaking, as most programs call the Kpathsea library internally, one can select a
+</p><!--l. 2558--><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-12">KPATHSEA_DEBUG </span>environment variable, and setting it to (a
combination of) values as described in the above list.
-</p><!--l. 2560--><p class="indent" > (Note for Windows users: it is not easy to redirect all messages to a file in this system. For
+</p><!--l. 2563--><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-12">SET KPATHSEA_DEBUG_OUTPUT=err.log</span>).
-</p><!--l. 2564--><p class="indent" > Let us consider, as an example, a small LaTeX source file, <span
+</p><!--l. 2567--><p class="indent" > Let us consider, as an example, a small LaTeX source file, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">hello-world.tex</span>, which
@@ -4984,7 +4985,7 @@
<a
id="x1-67008r4"></a> \end{document}</pre>
</pre>
-<!--l. 2571--><p class="nopar" >This little file only uses the font <span
+<!--l. 2574--><p class="nopar" >This little file only uses the font <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">cmr10</span>, so let us look at how <span
class="ec-lmss-12">dvips </span>prepares the PostScript file
(we want to use the Type 1 version of the Computer Modern fonts, hence the option <span
@@ -5080,7 +5081,7 @@
<figcaption class="caption" ><span class="id">Figure 12: </span><span
class="content">Finding configuration files</span></figcaption><!--tex4ht:label?: x1-67031r12 -->
</figure>
-<!--l. 2589--><p class="indent" > <span
+<!--l. 2592--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmss-12">dvips </span>starts by locating its working files. First, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf.cnf </span>is found, which gives the
definitions of the search paths for the other files, then the file database <span
@@ -5136,7 +5137,7 @@
always loaded (it contains declarations for commonly used PostScript fonts; see the last part of
section <a
href="#x1-660007.2.3">7.2.3<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:examples-of-use --></a> for more details about PostScript map file handling).
-<!--l. 2616--><p class="indent" > At this point <span
+<!--l. 2619--><p class="indent" > At this point <span
class="ec-lmss-12">dvips </span>identifies itself to the user: </p><div class="alltt">
<div class="obeylines-v">
@@ -5179,7 +5180,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10x-x-109"> /usr/local/texmf/dvips/base/texc.pro</span>
</div>
</div>
-<!--l. 2633--><p class="indent" > After having found the file in question, <span
+<!--l. 2636--><p class="indent" > After having found the file in question, <span
class="ec-lmss-12">dvips </span>outputs the date and time, and
informs us that it will generate the file <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">hello-world.ps</span>, then that it needs the
@@ -5272,12 +5273,12 @@
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">7.3 </span> <a
id="x1-680007.3"></a>Runtime options</h4>
-<!--l. 2664--><p class="noindent" >Another useful feature of Web2C is its possibility to control a number of memory parameters
+<!--l. 2667--><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-12">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. 2670--><p class="noindent" >
+</p><!--l. 2673--><p class="noindent" >
</p><dl class="list1"><dt class="list">
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">main_memory</span> </dt><dd
@@ -5284,7 +5285,7 @@
class="list">
- <!--l. 2671--><p class="noindent" >Total words of memory available, for TeX, Metafont and MetaPost. You must make
+ <!--l. 2674--><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-12">hugetex.fmt</span>. Using the standard
@@ -5296,30 +5297,30 @@
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">extra_mem_bot</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2679--><p class="noindent" >Extra space for “large” TeX data structures: boxes, glue, breakpoints, etc.
+ <!--l. 2682--><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-12">font_mem_size</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2683--><p class="noindent" >Number of words for font information available for TeX. This is more or less the
+ <!--l. 2686--><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-12">hash_extra</span> </dt><dd
class="list">
- <!--l. 2686--><p class="noindent" >Additional space for the hash table of control sequence names; its default value is
+ <!--l. 2689--><p class="noindent" >Additional space for the hash table of control sequence names; its default value is
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">600000</span>.</p></dd></dl>
-<!--l. 2691--><p class="noindent" >This facility is no substitute for truly dynamic arrays and memory allocation, but since these
+<!--l. 2694--><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. 2696--><p class="indent" > <a id="texmfdotdir"></a>
+</p><!--l. 2699--><p class="indent" > <a id="texmfdotdir"></a>
</p>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">7.4 </span> <a
id="x1-690007.4"></a><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">$TEXMFDOTDIR</span></h4>
-<!--l. 2700--><p class="noindent" >In various places above, we gave various search paths starting with <span
+<!--l. 2703--><p class="noindent" >In various places above, we gave various search paths starting with <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">. </span>(to search the current
directory first), as in </p><div class="alltt">
@@ -5328,7 +5329,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-10x-x-109">TEXINPUTS=.;$TEXMF/tex//</span>
</div>
</div>
-<!--l. 2706--><p class="indent" > This is a simplification. The <span
+<!--l. 2709--><p class="indent" > This is a simplification. The <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf.cnf </span>file we distribute in TeX Live uses <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">$TEXMFDOTDIR</span>
instead of just ‘<span
@@ -5343,7 +5344,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">$TEXMF/tex//</span>. But that’s minor; here we want to discuss the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">$TEXMFDOTDIR</span>
feature.)
-<!--l. 2715--><p class="indent" > The reason to use the variable <span
+<!--l. 2718--><p class="indent" > The reason to use the variable <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">$TEXMFDOTDIR </span>in the path definitions instead of simply
‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">.</span>’ is purely so that it can be overridden. For example, a complex document may
@@ -5357,26 +5358,26 @@
undesirable, and potentially insecure, to search through all subdirectories for an arbitrary
document.)
-</p><!--l. 2725--><p class="indent" > As another example, you may wish not to search the current directory at all, e.g., if you
+</p><!--l. 2728--><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-12">$TEXMFDOTDIR </span>to, say,
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">/nonesuch </span>or any nonexistent directory for this.
-</p><!--l. 2730--><p class="indent" > The default value of <span
+</p><!--l. 2733--><p class="indent" > The default value of <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">$TEXMFDOTDIR </span>is just ‘<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">.</span>’, as set in our <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf.cnf</span>.
-</p><!--l. 2733--><p class="indent" > <a id="ack"></a>
+</p><!--l. 2736--><p class="indent" > <a id="ack"></a>
</p>
<h3 class="sectionHead"><span class="titlemark">8 </span> <a
id="x1-700008"></a>Acknowledgements</h3>
-<!--l. 2736--><p class="noindent" >TeX Live is a joint effort by virtually all of the TeX user groups. This edition of TeX Live was
+<!--l. 2739--><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">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2742--><p class="noindent" >The English, German, Dutch, and Polish TeX user groups (TUG, DANTE
+ <!--l. 2745--><p class="noindent" >The English, German, Dutch, and Polish TeX user groups (TUG, DANTE
e.V., NTG, and GUST, respectively), which provide the necessary technical and
administrative infrastructure. Please join the TeX user group near you! (See
<a
@@ -5384,7 +5385,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/usergroups.html</span></a>.)
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2748--><p class="noindent" >The CTAN team (<a
+ <!--l. 2751--><p class="noindent" >The CTAN team (<a
href="https://ctan.org" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://ctan.org</span></a>), which distributes the TeX Live images
and provides the common infrastructure for package updates, upon which TeX Live
@@ -5391,21 +5392,21 @@
depends.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2752--><p class="noindent" >Nelson Beebe, for making many platforms available to TeX Live developers, and
+ <!--l. 2755--><p class="noindent" >Nelson Beebe, for making many platforms available to TeX Live developers, and
his own comprehensive testing and unparalleled bibliographic efforts.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2756--><p class="noindent" >John Bowman, for making many changes to his advanced graphics program
+ <!--l. 2759--><p class="noindent" >John Bowman, for making many changes to his advanced graphics program
Asymptote to make it work in TeX Live.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2759--><p class="noindent" >Peter Breitenlohner and the e-TeX team for the stable foundation of future TeX’s,
+ <!--l. 2762--><p class="noindent" >Peter Breitenlohner and the e-TeX team for the stable foundation of future TeX’s,
and Peter specifically for years of stellar help with GNU autotools and keeping
sources up to date. Peter passed away in October 2015, and we dedicate the
continuing work to his memory.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2764--><p class="noindent" >Jin-Hwan Cho and all of the DVIPDFM<span
+ <!--l. 2767--><p class="noindent" >Jin-Hwan Cho and all of the DVIPDFM<span
class="lmmi-12">x </span>team, for their excellent driver and
responsiveness to configuration issues.
</p></li>
@@ -5412,20 +5413,20 @@
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2767--><p class="noindent" >Thomas Esser, without whose marvelous teTeX package TeX Live would have never
+ <!--l. 2770--><p class="noindent" >Thomas Esser, without whose marvelous teTeX package TeX Live would have never
existed.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2770--><p class="noindent" >Michel Goossens, who co-authored the original documentation.
+ <!--l. 2773--><p class="noindent" >Michel Goossens, who co-authored the original documentation.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2772--><p class="noindent" >Eitan Gurari, whose TeX4ht is used to create the HTML version of this
+ <!--l. 2775--><p class="noindent" >Eitan Gurari, whose TeX4ht is used to create the HTML version of this
documentation, and who worked tirelessly to improve it at short notice, every year.
Eitan prematurely passed away in June 2009, and we dedicate this documentation
to his memory.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2777--><p class="noindent" >Hans Hagen,
+ <!--l. 2780--><p class="noindent" >Hans Hagen,
for much testing and making his ConTeXt package (<a
href="https://pragma-ade.com" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://pragma-ade.com</span></a>)
@@ -5432,21 +5433,21 @@
work within TeX Live’s framework, and continually driving TeX development.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2781--><p class="noindent" >Hàn Thế Thành, Martin Schröder, and the pdfTeX team (<a
+ <!--l. 2784--><p class="noindent" >Hàn Thế Thành, Martin Schröder, and the pdfTeX team (<a
href="http://pdftex.org" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">http://pdftex.org</span></a>),
for continuing enhancements of TeX’s abilities.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2785--><p class="noindent" >Hartmut Henkel, for significant development contributions to pdfTeX, LuaTeX,
+ <!--l. 2788--><p class="noindent" >Hartmut Henkel, for significant development contributions to pdfTeX, LuaTeX,
and more.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2788--><p class="noindent" >Shunshaku Hirata, for much original and continuing work on DVIPDFM<span
+ <!--l. 2791--><p class="noindent" >Shunshaku Hirata, for much original and continuing work on DVIPDFM<span
class="lmmi-12">x</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2790--><p class="noindent" >Taco Hoekwater, for major renewed development efforts on MetaPost and
+ <!--l. 2793--><p class="noindent" >Taco Hoekwater, for major renewed development efforts on MetaPost and
(Lua)TeX (<a
href="http://luatex.org" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">http://luatex.org</span></a>) itself, incorporating ConTeXt into TeX Live,
@@ -5453,18 +5454,18 @@
giving Kpathsea multi-threaded functionality, and much more.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2795--><p class="noindent" >Khaled Hosny, for substantial work on XeTeX, DVIPDFM<span
+ <!--l. 2798--><p class="noindent" >Khaled Hosny, for substantial work on XeTeX, DVIPDFM<span
class="lmmi-12">x</span>, and efforts with Arabic
and other fonts.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2798--><p class="noindent" >Paweł Jackowski, for the Windows installer <span
+ <!--l. 2801--><p class="noindent" >Paweł Jackowski, for the Windows installer <span
class="ec-lmss-12">tlpm</span>, and Tomasz Łuczak, for <span
class="ec-lmss-12">tlpmgui</span>,
used in past releases.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2801--><p class="noindent" >Akira Kakuto, for providing the Windows binaries from his W32TEX and W64TEX
+ <!--l. 2804--><p class="noindent" >Akira Kakuto, for providing the Windows binaries from his W32TEX and W64TEX
distributions for Japanese TeX (<a
href="http://w32tex.org" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">http://w32tex.org</span></a>), and many other
@@ -5473,39 +5474,39 @@
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2805--><p class="noindent" >Jonathan Kew, for developing the remarkable XeTeX engine and taking the time
+ <!--l. 2808--><p class="noindent" >Jonathan Kew, for developing the remarkable XeTeX engine and taking the time
and trouble to integrate it in TeX Live, as well as the initial version of the
MacTeX installer, and also for our recommended front-end TeXworks.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2810--><p class="noindent" >Hironori Kitagawa, for maintenance of (e)pTeX and related support.
+ <!--l. 2813--><p class="noindent" >Hironori Kitagawa, for maintenance of (e)pTeX and related support.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2812--><p class="noindent" >Dick Koch, for maintaining MacTeX (<a
+ <!--l. 2815--><p class="noindent" >Dick Koch, for maintaining MacTeX (<a
href="https://tug.org/mactex" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/mactex</span></a>) in very close
tandem with TeX Live, and for his great good cheer in doing so.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2816--><p class="noindent" >Reinhard Kotucha, for major contributions to the TeX Live 2008 infrastructure
+ <!--l. 2819--><p class="noindent" >Reinhard Kotucha, for major contributions to the TeX Live 2008 infrastructure
and installer, as well as Windows research efforts, the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">getnonfreefonts </span>script,
and more.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2820--><p class="noindent" >Siep Kroonenberg, also for major contributions to the TeX Live 2008 infrastructure
+ <!--l. 2823--><p class="noindent" >Siep Kroonenberg, also for major contributions to the TeX Live 2008 infrastructure
and installer, especially on Windows, and for the bulk of work updating this manual
describing those features.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2824--><p class="noindent" >Clerk Ma, for engine bug fixes and extensions.
+ <!--l. 2827--><p class="noindent" >Clerk Ma, for engine bug fixes and extensions.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2826--><p class="noindent" >Mojca Miklavec, for much help with ConTeXt, building many binary sets, and
+ <!--l. 2829--><p class="noindent" >Mojca Miklavec, for much help with ConTeXt, building many binary sets, and
plenty more.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2829--><p class="noindent" >Heiko Oberdiek, for the <span
+ <!--l. 2832--><p class="noindent" >Heiko Oberdiek, for the <span
class="ec-lmss-12">epstopdf </span>package and many others, compressing the huge
<span
class="ec-lmss-12">pst-geo </span>data files so we could include them, and most of all, for his remarkable
@@ -5513,19 +5514,19 @@
class="ec-lmss-12">hyperref</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2834--><p class="noindent" >Phelype Oleinik, for the group-delimited <span
+ <!--l. 2837--><p class="noindent" >Phelype Oleinik, for the group-delimited <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\input </span>across engines in 2020, and more.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2837--><p class="noindent" >Petr Olšak, who coordinated and checked all the Czech and Slovak material very
+ <!--l. 2840--><p class="noindent" >Petr Olšak, who coordinated and checked all the Czech and Slovak material very
carefully.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2840--><p class="noindent" >Toshio Oshima, for his <span
+ <!--l. 2843--><p class="noindent" >Toshio Oshima, for his <span
class="ec-lmss-12">dviout </span>previewer for Windows.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2842--><p class="noindent" >Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard, for helping with package updates, documentation
+ <!--l. 2845--><p class="noindent" >Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard, for helping with package updates, documentation
improvements, and <span
class="ec-lmss-12">texdoc </span>development.
@@ -5532,66 +5533,66 @@
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2845--><p class="noindent" >Fabrice Popineau, for the original Windows support in TeX Live and work on the
+ <!--l. 2848--><p class="noindent" >Fabrice Popineau, for the original Windows support in TeX Live and work on the
French documentation.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2848--><p class="noindent" >Norbert Preining, the principal architect of the current TeX Live infrastructure
+ <!--l. 2851--><p class="noindent" >Norbert Preining, the principal architect of the current TeX Live infrastructure
and installer, and also for coordinating the Debian version of TeX Live (together
with Frank Küster), and doing so much work along the way.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2853--><p class="noindent" >Sebastian Rahtz, for originally creating TeX Live and maintaining it for many
+ <!--l. 2856--><p class="noindent" >Sebastian Rahtz, for originally creating TeX Live and maintaining it for many
years. Sebastian passed away in March 2016, and we dedicate the continuing work
to his memory.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2857--><p class="noindent" >Luigi Scarso, for continuing development of MetaPost, LuaTeX, and much more.
+ <!--l. 2860--><p class="noindent" >Luigi Scarso, for continuing development of MetaPost, LuaTeX, and much more.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2860--><p class="noindent" >Andreas Scherer, for <span
+ <!--l. 2863--><p class="noindent" >Andreas Scherer, for <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">cwebbin</span>, the CWEB implementation used in TeX Live, and
continuing maintenance of the original CWEB.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2863--><p class="noindent" >Tim Stewart, for creating the torrents.
+ <!--l. 2866--><p class="noindent" >Tim Stewart, for creating the torrents.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2865--><p class="noindent" >Takuji Tanaka, for maintenance of (e)(u)pTeX and related support.
+ <!--l. 2868--><p class="noindent" >Takuji Tanaka, for maintenance of (e)(u)pTeX and related support.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2867--><p class="noindent" >Tomasz Trzeciak, for wide-ranging help with Windows.
+ <!--l. 2870--><p class="noindent" >Tomasz Trzeciak, for wide-ranging help with Windows.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2869--><p class="noindent" >Vladimir Volovich, for substantial help with porting and other maintenance issues,
+ <!--l. 2872--><p class="noindent" >Vladimir Volovich, for substantial help with porting and other maintenance issues,
and especially for making it feasible to include <span
class="ec-lmss-12">xindy</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2873--><p class="noindent" >Staszek Wawrykiewicz, a principal tester for all of TeX Live, and coordinator of the
+ <!--l. 2876--><p class="noindent" >Staszek Wawrykiewicz, a principal tester for all of TeX Live, and coordinator of the
many major Polish contributions: fonts, Windows installation, and more. Staszek
passed away in February 2018, and we dedicate the continuing work to his memory.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2878--><p class="noindent" >Olaf Weber, for his patient maintenance of Web2C in past years.
+ <!--l. 2881--><p class="noindent" >Olaf Weber, for his patient maintenance of Web2C in past years.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2880--><p class="noindent" >Gerben Wierda, for creating and maintaining the original macOS support.
+ <!--l. 2883--><p class="noindent" >Gerben Wierda, for creating and maintaining the original macOS support.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2883--><p class="noindent" >Graham Williams, the originator of the TeX Catalogue.
+ <!--l. 2886--><p class="noindent" >Graham Williams, the originator of the TeX Catalogue.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2885--><p class="noindent" >Joseph Wright, for much work on making the same primitive functionality available
+ <!--l. 2888--><p class="noindent" >Joseph Wright, for much work on making the same primitive functionality available
across engines.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2888--><p class="noindent" >Hironobu Yamashita, for much work on pTeX and related support.
+ <!--l. 2891--><p class="noindent" >Hironobu Yamashita, for much work on pTeX and related support.
</p>
</li></ul>
-<!--l. 2892--><p class="indent" > Builders of the binaries: Marc Baudoin (<span
+<!--l. 2895--><p class="indent" > Builders of the binaries: Marc Baudoin (<span
class="ec-lmss-12">amd64-netbsd</span>, <span
class="ec-lmss-12">i386-netbsd</span>), Ken Brown
(<span
@@ -5613,7 +5614,7 @@
information on the TeX Live build process, see <a
href="https://tug.org/texlive/build.html" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/texlive/build.html</span></a>.
-</p><!--l. 2908--><p class="indent" > Translators of this manual: Takuto Asakura (Japanese), Denis Bitouzé & Patrick
+</p><!--l. 2911--><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 & Vladimir Lomov
@@ -5621,7 +5622,7 @@
<a
href="https://tug.org/texlive/doc.html" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/texlive/doc.html</span></a>.
-</p><!--l. 2920--><p class="indent" > Of course the most important acknowledgement must go to Donald Knuth, first for
+</p><!--l. 2923--><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>
@@ -5630,7 +5631,7 @@
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1 </span> <a
id="x1-720009.1"></a>Past</h4>
-<!--l. 2929--><p class="noindent" >Discussion began in late 1993 when the Dutch TeX Users Group was starting work on its
+<!--l. 2932--><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
@@ -5646,7 +5647,7 @@
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. 2945--><p class="indent" > We first undertook to make a new Unix-based TDS CD in the autumn of 1995, and quickly
+</p><!--l. 2948--><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
@@ -5662,7 +5663,7 @@
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. 2961--><p class="indent" > For the 5th edition (March 2000) many parts of the CD were revised and checked,
+</p><!--l. 2964--><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 (
@@ -5670,12 +5671,12 @@
href="https://debian.org/intro/free" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://debian.org/intro/free</span></a>); we have done our best to check the license conditions of
all packages, but we would very much appreciate hearing of any mistakes.
-</p><!--l. 2970--><p class="indent" > The 6th edition (July 2001) had much more material updated. The major change was a
+</p><!--l. 2973--><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-12">language.dat</span>.
-</p><!--l. 2976--><p class="indent" > The 7th edition of 2002 had the notable addition of macOS support, and the usual
+</p><!--l. 2979--><p class="indent" > The 7th edition of 2002 had the notable addition of macOS 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.
@@ -5683,7 +5684,7 @@
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.1 </span> <a
id="x1-730009.1.1"></a>2003</h5>
-<!--l. 2983--><p class="noindent" >In 2003, with the continuing flood of updates and additions, we found that TeX Live had
+<!--l. 2986--><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
@@ -5691,7 +5692,7 @@
</p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2990--><p class="noindent" >At the request of the LaTeX team, we changed the standard <span
+ <!--l. 2993--><p class="noindent" >At the request of the LaTeX team, we changed the standard <span
class="ec-lmss-12">latex </span>and <span
class="ec-lmss-12">pdflatex</span>
commands to now use e-TeX (see p. <a
@@ -5698,10 +5699,10 @@
href="#x1-120002.4">13<!--tex4ht:ref: text:etex --></a>).
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2993--><p class="noindent" >The new Latin Modern fonts were included (and are recommended).
+ <!--l. 2996--><p class="noindent" >The new Latin Modern fonts were included (and are recommended).
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2994--><p class="noindent" >Support for Alpha OSF was removed (HPUX support was removed previously),
+ <!--l. 2997--><p class="noindent" >Support for Alpha OSF was removed (HPUX support was removed previously),
since no one had (or volunteered) hardware available on which to compile new
@@ -5708,15 +5709,15 @@
binaries.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2997--><p class="noindent" >Windows setup was substantially changed; for the first time an integrated
+ <!--l. 3000--><p class="noindent" >Windows setup was substantially changed; for the first time an integrated
environment based on XEmacs was introduced.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 2999--><p class="noindent" >Important supplementary programs for Windows (Perl, Ghostscript, ImageMagick,
+ <!--l. 3002--><p class="noindent" >Important supplementary programs for Windows (Perl, Ghostscript, ImageMagick,
Ispell) are now installed in the TeX Live installation directory.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3002--><p class="noindent" >Font map files used by <span
+ <!--l. 3005--><p class="noindent" >Font map files used by <span
class="ec-lmss-12">dvips</span>, <span
class="ec-lmss-12">dvipdfm </span>and <span
class="ec-lmss-12">pdftex </span>are now generated by the new
@@ -5725,7 +5726,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf/fonts/map</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3005--><p class="noindent" >TeX, Metafont, and MetaPost now, by default, output most input characters (32
+ <!--l. 3008--><p class="noindent" >TeX, Metafont, and MetaPost now, by default, output most input characters (32
and above) as themselves in output (e.g., <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">\write</code></span>) files, log files, and the terminal,
i.e., <span
class="ec-lmri-12">not </span>translated using the <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">^^</code></span> notation. In TeX Live 7, this translation was
@@ -5735,23 +5736,23 @@
this.)
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3015--><p class="noindent" >This documentation was substantially revised.
+ <!--l. 3018--><p class="noindent" >This documentation was substantially revised.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3016--><p class="noindent" >Finally, since the edition numbers had grown unwieldy, the version is now simply
+ <!--l. 3019--><p class="noindent" >Finally, since the edition numbers had grown unwieldy, the version is now simply
identified by the year: TeX Live 2003.</p></li></ul>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.2 </span> <a
id="x1-740009.1.2"></a>2004</h5>
-<!--l. 3023--><p class="noindent" >2004 saw many changes:
+<!--l. 3026--><p class="noindent" >2004 saw many changes:
</p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3027--><p class="noindent" >If you have locally-installed fonts which use their own <span
+ <!--l. 3030--><p class="noindent" >If you have locally-installed fonts which use their own <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">.map </span>or (much less likely)
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">.enc </span>support files, you may need to move those support files.
- </p><!--l. 3031--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ </p><!--l. 3034--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">.map </span>files are now searched for in subdirectories of <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">fonts/map </span>only (in each <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf</span>
@@ -5763,7 +5764,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">ENCFONTS </span>path. <span
class="ec-lmss-12">updmap </span>will attempt
to warn about problematic files.
- </p><!--l. 3038--><p class="noindent" >For methods of handling this and other information, please see
+ </p><!--l. 3041--><p class="noindent" >For methods of handling this and other information, please see
<a
@@ -5771,7 +5772,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/texlive/mapenc.html</span></a>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3041--><p class="noindent" >The TeX Collection has been expanded with the addition of a MiKTeX-based
+ <!--l. 3044--><p class="noindent" >The TeX Collection has been expanded with the addition of a MiKTeX-based
installable CD, for those who prefer that implementation to Web2C. See section <a
href="#x1-80002">2<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:overview-tl --></a>
(p. <a
@@ -5778,7 +5779,7 @@
href="#x1-80002">8<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:overview-tl --></a>).
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3045--><p class="noindent" >Within TeX Live, the single large <span
+ <!--l. 3048--><p class="noindent" >Within TeX Live, the single large <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf </span>tree of previous releases has been replaced
by three: <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf</span>, <span
@@ -5790,7 +5791,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">README </span>files for each.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3051--><p class="noindent" >All TeX-related input files are now collected in the <span
+ <!--l. 3054--><p class="noindent" >All TeX-related input files are now collected in the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tex </span>subdirectory of <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf*</span>
trees, rather than having separate sibling directories <span
@@ -5803,7 +5804,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf-dist/doc/generic/tds/tds.html#Extensions</span></a>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3058--><p class="noindent" >Helper scripts
+ <!--l. 3061--><p class="noindent" >Helper scripts
(not meant to be invoked by users) are now located in a new <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">scripts </span>subdirectory
of <span
@@ -5814,7 +5815,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/tds/tds.html\#Scripts</span></a>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3064--><p class="noindent" >Almost all formats leave most characters printable as themselves via the
+ <!--l. 3067--><p class="noindent" >Almost all formats leave most characters printable as themselves via the
“translation file” <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">cp227.tcx</span>, instead of translating them with the <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">^^</code></span> notation.
Specifically, characters at positions 32–256, plus tab, vertical tab, and form
@@ -5829,7 +5830,7 @@
since it is byte-oriented.)
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3077--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 3080--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmss-12">pdfetex </span>is now the default engine for all formats except (plain) <span
class="ec-lmss-12">tex </span>itself. (Of course
it generates DVI when run as <span
@@ -5838,7 +5839,7 @@
class="ec-lmss-12">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>).
- </p><!--l. 3084--><p class="noindent" >It also means it’s <span
+ </p><!--l. 3087--><p class="noindent" >It also means it’s <span
class="ec-lmri-12">more important than ever </span>to use the <span
class="ec-lmss-12">ifpdf </span>package (works
with both plain and LaTeX) or equivalent code, because simply testing whether
@@ -5852,25 +5853,25 @@
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3092--><p class="noindent" >pdfTeX (<a
+ <!--l. 3095--><p class="noindent" >pdfTeX (<a
href="http://pdftex.org" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">http://pdftex.org</span></a>) has many new features:
</p>
<ul class="itemize2">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3096--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 3099--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfmapfile </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfmapline </span>provide font map support from within a
document.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3099--><p class="noindent" >Microtypographic font expansion can be used more easily.<br
+ <!--l. 3102--><p class="noindent" >Microtypographic font expansion can be used more easily.<br
class="newline" /><a
href="http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-pdftex/2004-May/000504.html" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-pdftex/2004-May/000504.html</span></a>
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3102--><p class="noindent" >All parameters previously set through the special
+ <!--l. 3105--><p class="noindent" >All parameters previously set through the special
configuration file <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">pdftex.cfg </span>must now be set through primitives, typically
in <span
@@ -5881,7 +5882,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">pdftexconfig.tex </span>is changed.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3108--><p class="noindent" >See the pdfTeX manual for more:
+ <!--l. 3111--><p class="noindent" >See the pdfTeX manual for more:
<a
href="../../../../texmf-dist/doc/pdftex/manual/pdftex-a.pdf" >texmf-dist/doc/pdftex/manual/pdftex-a.pdf</a>.
</p>
@@ -5888,7 +5889,7 @@
</li></ul>
</li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3112--><p class="noindent" >The <span
+ <!--l. 3115--><p class="noindent" >The <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\input </span>primitive in <span
class="ec-lmss-12">tex </span>(and <span
class="ec-lmss-12">mf </span>and <span
@@ -5903,11 +5904,11 @@
<a
id="x1-74004r2"></a>\input{"filename with spaces"} % latex</pre>
</pre>
- <!--l. 3118--><p class="nopar" >See the Web2C manual for more: <a
+ <!--l. 3121--><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">
- <!--l. 3121--><p class="noindent" >encTeX support is now included within Web2C and consequently all TeX programs,
+ <!--l. 3124--><p class="noindent" >encTeX support is now included within Web2C and consequently all TeX programs,
via the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">-enc </span>option — <span
class="ec-lmri-12">only when formats are built</span>. encTeX supports general
@@ -5918,7 +5919,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">http://olsak.net/enctex.html</span></a>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3128--><p class="noindent" >Aleph, a new engine combining e-TeX and Omega, is available. Some information is
+ <!--l. 3131--><p class="noindent" >Aleph, a new engine combining e-TeX and Omega, is available. Some information is
available in <a
href="../../../../texmf-dist/doc/aleph/base" >texmf-dist/doc/aleph/base</a> and <a
href="https://texfaq.org/FAQ-enginedev" class="url" ><span
@@ -5927,7 +5928,7 @@
class="ec-lmss-12">lamed</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3133--><p class="noindent" >The latest LaTeX release has a new version of the LPPL — now officially a
+ <!--l. 3136--><p class="noindent" >The latest LaTeX release has a new version of the LPPL — now officially a
Debian-approved license. Assorted other updates, see the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">ltnews </span>files in
<a
@@ -5934,7 +5935,7 @@
href="../../../../texmf-dist/doc/latex/base" >texmf-dist/doc/latex/base</a>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3138--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 3141--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmss-12">dvipng</span>, a new program for converting DVI to PNG image files, is included. See
<a
href="https://ctan.org/pkg/dvipng" class="url" ><span
@@ -5941,7 +5942,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://ctan.org/pkg/dvipng</span></a>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3142--><p class="noindent" >We reduced the <span
+ <!--l. 3145--><p class="noindent" >We reduced the <span
class="ec-lmss-12">cbgreek </span>package to a “medium” sized set of fonts, with the assent and
advice of the author (Claudio Beccari). The excised fonts are the invisible, outline, and
transparency ones, which are relatively rarely used, and we needed the space. The full set
@@ -5950,12 +5951,12 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://ctan.org/pkg/cbgreek-complete</span></a>).
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3148--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 3151--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmss-12">oxdvi </span>has been removed; just use <span
class="ec-lmss-12">xdvi</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3150--><p class="noindent" >The <span
+ <!--l. 3153--><p class="noindent" >The <span
class="ec-lmss-12">ini </span>and <span
class="ec-lmss-12">vir </span>commands (links) for <span
class="ec-lmss-12">tex</span>, <span
@@ -5968,7 +5969,7 @@
years now.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3155--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 3158--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmss-12">i386-openbsd </span>platform support was removed. Since the <span
class="ec-lmss-12">tetex </span>package in the BSD Ports
system is available, and GNU/Linux and FreeBSD binaries were available, it seemed
@@ -5975,7 +5976,7 @@
volunteer time could be better spent elsewhere.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3160--><p class="noindent" >On <span
+ <!--l. 3163--><p class="noindent" >On <span
class="ec-lmss-12">sparc-solaris </span>(at least), you may have to set the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">LD_LIBRARY_PATH </span>environment
@@ -5991,13 +5992,13 @@
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.3 </span> <a
id="x1-750009.1.3"></a>2005</h5>
-<!--l. 3171--><p class="noindent" >2005 saw the usual huge number of updates to packages and programs. The infrastructure
+<!--l. 3174--><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">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3177--><p class="noindent" >New scripts <span
+ <!--l. 3180--><p class="noindent" >New scripts <span
class="ec-lmss-12">texconfig-sys</span>, <span
class="ec-lmss-12">updmap-sys</span>, and <span
class="ec-lmss-12">fmtutil-sys </span>were introduced, which
@@ -6009,7 +6010,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">$HOME/.texlive2005</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3183--><p class="noindent" >Corresponding new variables <span
+ <!--l. 3186--><p class="noindent" >Corresponding new variables <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFCONFIG </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFSYSCONFIG </span>to specify the
trees where configuration files (user or system, respectively) are found. Thus,
@@ -6028,7 +6029,7 @@
href="#x1-110002.3">10<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:texmftrees --></a>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3194--><p class="noindent" >Last year, we kept <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">\pdfoutput</code></span> and other primitives undefined for DVI output,
+ <!--l. 3197--><p class="noindent" >Last year, we kept <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">\pdfoutput</code></span> and other primitives undefined for DVI output,
even though the <span
class="ec-lmss-12">pdfetex </span>program was being used. This year, as promised, we undid
that compatibility measure. So if your document uses <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">\ifx\pdfoutput\undefined</code></span>
@@ -6038,7 +6039,7 @@
logic.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3202--><p class="noindent" >Last year, we changed most formats to output (8-bit) characters as themselves (see
+ <!--l. 3205--><p class="noindent" >Last year, we changed most formats to output (8-bit) characters as themselves (see
previous section). The new TCX file <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">empty.tcx </span>now provides an easier way to get the
original <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">^^</code></span> notation if you so desire, as in:
@@ -6049,10 +6050,10 @@
<pre class="fancyvrb" id="fancyvrb22"><a
id="x1-75002r1"></a>latex --translate-file=empty.tcx yourfile.tex</pre>
</pre>
- <!--l. 3208--><p class="nopar" >
+ <!--l. 3211--><p class="nopar" >
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3210--><p class="noindent" >The new program <span
+ <!--l. 3213--><p class="noindent" >The new program <span
class="ec-lmss-12">dvipdfmx </span>is included for translation of DVI to PDF; this is an actively
maintained update of <span
class="ec-lmss-12">dvipdfm </span>(which is also still available for now, though no longer
@@ -6059,7 +6060,7 @@
recommended).
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3215--><p class="noindent" >The new programs <span
+ <!--l. 3218--><p class="noindent" >The new programs <span
class="ec-lmss-12">pdfopen </span>and <span
class="ec-lmss-12">pdfclose </span>are included to allow reloading of PDF files in
the Adobe Acrobat Reader without restarting the program. (Other PDF readers, notably
@@ -6069,7 +6070,7 @@
class="ec-lmss-12">gsview</span>, have never suffered from this problem.)
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3221--><p class="noindent" >For consistency, the variables <span
+ <!--l. 3224--><p class="noindent" >For consistency, the variables <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">HOMETEXMF </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">VARTEXMF </span>have been renamed to
<span
@@ -6082,13 +6083,13 @@
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.4 </span> <a
id="x1-760009.1.4"></a>2006–2007</h5>
-<!--l. 3232--><p class="noindent" >In 2006–2007, the major new addition to TeX Live was the XeTeX program, available as the
+<!--l. 3235--><p class="noindent" >In 2006–2007, the major new addition to TeX Live was the XeTeX program, available as the
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">xetex </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">xelatex </span>programs; see <a
href="https://scripts.sil.org/xetex" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://scripts.sil.org/xetex</span></a>.
-</p><!--l. 3236--><p class="indent" > MetaPost also received a notable update, with more planned for the
+</p><!--l. 3239--><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-12">https://tug.org/metapost/articles</span></a>), likewise pdfTeX (
@@ -6095,7 +6096,7 @@
<a
href="https://tug.org/applications/pdftex" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/applications/pdftex</span></a>).
-</p><!--l. 3240--><p class="indent" > The TeX <span
+</p><!--l. 3243--><p class="indent" > The TeX <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">.fmt </span>(high-speed format) and the similar files for MetaPost and Metafont are
now stored in subdirectories of <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf/web2c</span>, instead of in the directory itself (although the
@@ -6106,21 +6107,21 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">pdftex </span>or <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">xetex</span>. This change should be invisible in normal
use.
-</p><!--l. 3248--><p class="indent" > The (plain) <span
+</p><!--l. 3251--><p class="indent" > The (plain) <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tex </span>program no longer reads <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">%& </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-12">%&</span>
lines).
-</p><!--l. 3252--><p class="indent" > Of course the year also saw (the usual) hundreds of other updates to packages and
+</p><!--l. 3255--><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-12">https://ctan.org</span></a>) for updates.
-</p><!--l. 3256--><p class="indent" > Internally, the source tree is now stored in Subversion, with a standard web interface for
+</p><!--l. 3259--><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. 3261--><p class="indent" > Finally, in May 2006 Thomas Esser announced that he would no longer be updating teTeX
+</p><!--l. 3264--><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-12">https://tug.org/tetex</span></a>). As a result, there was a surge of interest in TeX Live, especially
@@ -6134,41 +6135,41 @@
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.5 </span> <a
id="x1-770009.1.5"></a>2008</h5>
-<!--l. 3271--><p class="noindent" >In 2008, the entire TeX Live infrastructure was redesigned and reimplemented. Complete
+<!--l. 3274--><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-12">tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3275--><p class="indent" > Among other things, this finally makes possible upgrading a TeX Live installation
+</p><!--l. 3278--><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. 3280--><p class="indent" > The major new engine LuaTeX (<a
+</p><!--l. 3283--><p class="indent" > The major new engine LuaTeX (<a
href="http://luatex.org" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">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. 3285--><p class="indent" > Support among Windows and the Unix-based platforms is now much more uniform. In
+</p><!--l. 3288--><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. 3289--><p class="indent" > The new <span
+</p><!--l. 3292--><p class="indent" > The new <span
class="ec-lmss-12">tlmgr </span>script (section <a
href="#x1-430005">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 including local additions.
-</p><!--l. 3294--><p class="indent" > With the advent of <span
+</p><!--l. 3297--><p class="indent" > With the advent of <span
class="ec-lmss-12">tlmgr</span>, the <span
class="ec-lmss-12">texconfig </span>actions to edit the format and hyphenation
configuration files are now disabled.
-</p><!--l. 3297--><p class="indent" > The <span
+</p><!--l. 3300--><p class="indent" > The <span
class="ec-lmss-12">xindy </span>indexing program (<a
href="http://xindy.sourceforge.net/" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">http://xindy.sourceforge.net/</span></a>) is now included on
most platforms.
-</p><!--l. 3300--><p class="indent" > The <span
+</p><!--l. 3303--><p class="indent" > The <span
class="ec-lmss-12">kpsewhich </span>tool can now report all matches for a given file (option <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">--all</span>) and limit
matches to a given subdirectory (option <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">--subdir</span>).
-</p><!--l. 3304--><p class="indent" > The <span
+</p><!--l. 3307--><p class="indent" > The <span
class="ec-lmss-12">dvipdfmx </span>program now includes functionality to extract bounding box information, via
the command name <span
class="ec-lmss-12">extractbb</span>; this was one of the last features provided by <span
@@ -6175,20 +6176,20 @@
class="ec-lmss-12">dvipdfm </span>not in
<span
class="ec-lmss-12">dvipdfmx</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3309--><p class="indent" > The font aliases <span
+</p><!--l. 3312--><p class="indent" > The font aliases <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">Times-Roman</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">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. 3314--><p class="indent" > The <span
+</p><!--l. 3317--><p class="indent" > The <span
class="ec-lmss-12">platex </span>format has been removed, to resolve a name conflict with a completely different
Japanese <span
class="ec-lmss-12">platex</span>; the <span
class="ec-lmss-12">polski </span>package is now the main Polish support.
-</p><!--l. 3318--><p class="indent" > Internally, the <span
+</p><!--l. 3321--><p class="indent" > Internally, the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">WEB</span> string pool files are now compiled into the binaries, to ease
upgrades.
-</p><!--l. 3321--><p class="indent" > Finally, the changes made by Donald Knuth in his ‘TeX tuneup of 2008’ are included in
+</p><!--l. 3324--><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-12">https://tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb29-2/tb92knut.pdf</span></a>.
@@ -6198,7 +6199,7 @@
id="x1-780009.1.6"></a>2009</h5>
-<!--l. 3327--><p class="noindent" >In 2009, the default output format for Lua(L<span
+<!--l. 3330--><p class="noindent" >In 2009, the default output format for Lua(L<span
class="ec-lmr-8">A</span>)TeX is now PDF, to take advantage of LuaTeX’s
OpenType support, et al. New executables named <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">dviluatex </span>and <span
@@ -6206,10 +6207,10 @@
LuaTeX with DVI output. The LuaTeX home page is <a
href="http://luatex.org" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">http://luatex.org</span></a>.
-</p><!--l. 3332--><p class="indent" > The original Omega engine and Lambda format have been excised, after discussions
+</p><!--l. 3335--><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. 3336--><p class="indent" > A new release of the AMS Type 1 fonts is included, including Computer Modern: a few shape
+</p><!--l. 3339--><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
@@ -6218,18 +6219,18 @@
remain unchanged. The AMS fonts home page is <a
href="https://ams.org/tex/amsfonts.html" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://ams.org/tex/amsfonts.html</span></a>.
-</p><!--l. 3344--><p class="indent" > The new GUI front end TeXworks is included for Windows, and also in MacTeX. For other
+</p><!--l. 3347--><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-12">https://tug.org/texworks</span></a>.
It is a cross-platform front-end inspired by the macOS TeXShop editor, aiming at
ease-of-use.
-</p><!--l. 3350--><p class="indent" > The graphics program Asymptote is included for several platforms. This implements a
+</p><!--l. 3353--><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-12">https://asymptote.sourceforge.io</span></a>.
-</p><!--l. 3355--><p class="indent" > The separate <span
+</p><!--l. 3358--><p class="indent" > The separate <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">dvipdfm </span>program has been replaced by <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">dvipdfmx</span>, which operates in a special
compatibility mode under that name. <span
@@ -6236,13 +6237,13 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">dvipdfmx </span>includes CJK support and has accumulated
many other fixes over the years since the last <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">dvipdfm </span>release.
-</p><!--l. 3361--><p class="indent" > Executables for the <span
+</p><!--l. 3364--><p class="indent" > Executables for the <span
class="ec-lmss-12">cygwin </span>and <span
class="ec-lmss-12">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. 3366--><p class="indent" > A miscellany of smaller changes: we now use <span
+</p><!--l. 3369--><p class="indent" > A miscellany of smaller changes: we now use <span
class="ec-lmss-12">xz </span>compression, the stable replacement for
<span
class="ec-lmss-12">lzma </span>(<a
@@ -6250,7 +6251,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tukaani.org/xz/</span></a>); a literal <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">$</code></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. 3373--><p class="indent" > Final note on the past: all releases of TeX Live, along with ancillary material such as
+</p><!--l. 3376--><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-12">ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive</span></a>.
@@ -6258,12 +6259,12 @@
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.7 </span> <a
id="x1-790009.1.7"></a>2010</h5>
-<!--l. 3381--><p class="noindent" >In 2010, the default version for PDF output is now 1.5, enabling more compression. This
+<!--l. 3384--><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-12">dvipdfmx</span>. Loading the <span
class="ec-lmss-12">pdf14</span>
LaTeX package changes back to PDF 1.4, or set <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">\pdfminorversion=4</code></span>.
-</p><!--l. 3386--><p class="indent" > pdf(L<span
+</p><!--l. 3389--><p class="indent" > pdf(L<span
class="ec-lmr-8">A</span>)TeX now <span
class="ec-lmri-12">automatically </span>converts a requested Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) file to
PDF, via the <span
@@ -6283,7 +6284,7 @@
<a
href="https://ctan.org/pkg/epstopdf-pkg" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://ctan.org/pkg/epstopdf-pkg</span></a>).
-</p><!--l. 3398--><p class="indent" > A related change is that execution of a very few external commands from TeX, via
+</p><!--l. 3401--><p class="indent" > A related change is that execution of a very few external commands from TeX, via
the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\write18 </span>feature, is now enabled by default. These commands are <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">repstopdf</span>,
@@ -6297,15 +6298,15 @@
the installer (see section <a
href="#x1-260003.2.4">3.2.4<!--tex4ht:ref: sec:options --></a>), or override the value after installation by running
<span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">tlmgr conf texmf shell_escape 0</code></span>.
-</p><!--l. 3407--><p class="indent" > Yet another related change is that BibTeX and Makeindex now refuse to write their output
+</p><!--l. 3410--><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-12">\write18</span>. To change this, the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFOUTPUT </span>environment variable can
be set, or the <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">openout_any</code></span> setting changed.
-</p><!--l. 3413--><p class="indent" > XeTeX now supports margin kerning along the same lines as pdfTeX. (Font expansion is
+</p><!--l. 3416--><p class="indent" > XeTeX now supports margin kerning along the same lines as pdfTeX. (Font expansion is
not presently supported.)
-</p><!--l. 3416--><p class="indent" > By default, <span
+</p><!--l. 3419--><p class="indent" > By default, <span
class="ec-lmss-12">tlmgr </span>now saves one backup of each package updated (<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlmgr option</span>
<span
@@ -6315,7 +6316,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlmgr option</span>
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">autobackup 0</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3422--><p class="indent" > New programs included: the pTeX engine and related utilities for typesetting Japanese; the
+</p><!--l. 3425--><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-12">chktex </span>utility (originally from
<a
@@ -6326,7 +6327,7 @@
<a
href="https://dvisvgm.de" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://dvisvgm.de</span></a>) DVI-to-SVG translator.
-</p><!--l. 3430--><p class="indent" > Executables for these new platforms are included: <span
+</p><!--l. 3433--><p class="indent" > Executables for these new platforms are included: <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">amd64-freebsd</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">amd64-kfreebsd</span>,
<span
@@ -6334,7 +6335,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">i386-kfreebsd</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">x86_64-darwin</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">x86_64-solaris</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3434--><p class="indent" > A change in TeX Live 2009 that we failed to note: numerous TeX4ht-related executables (
+</p><!--l. 3437--><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-12">https://tug.org/tex4ht</span></a>) were removed from the binary directories. The generic <span
@@ -6341,7 +6342,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">mk4ht</span>
program can be used to run any of the various <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tex4ht </span>combinations.
-</p><!--l. 3439--><p class="indent" > Finally, the TeX Live release on the TeX Collection DVD can no longer be run live (oddly
+</p><!--l. 3442--><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.
@@ -6348,26 +6349,26 @@
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.8 </span> <a
id="x1-800009.1.8"></a>2011</h5>
-<!--l. 3446--><p class="noindent" >The macOS binaries (<span
+<!--l. 3449--><p class="noindent" >The macOS binaries (<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">universal-darwin </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">x86_64-darwin</span>) now work only on Leopard or
later; Panther and Tiger are no longer supported.
-</p><!--l. 3450--><p class="indent" > The <span
+</p><!--l. 3453--><p class="indent" > The <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">biber </span>program for bibliography processing is included on common platforms. Its
development is closely coupled with the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">biblatex </span>package, which completely reimplements the
bibliographical facilities provided by LaTeX.
-</p><!--l. 3455--><p class="indent" > The MetaPost (<span
+</p><!--l. 3458--><p class="indent" > The MetaPost (<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">mpost</span>) program no longer creates or uses <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">.mem </span>files. The needed files, such
as <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">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. 3460--><p class="indent" > The <span
+</p><!--l. 3463--><p class="indent" > The <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">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. 3465--><p class="indent" > The <span
+</p><!--l. 3468--><p class="indent" > The <span
class="ec-lmss-12">initex </span>and <span
class="ec-lmss-12">inimf </span>programs were restored (but no other <span
class="ec-lmss-12">ini* </span>variants).
@@ -6377,11 +6378,11 @@
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.9 </span> <a
id="x1-810009.1.9"></a>2012</h5>
-<!--l. 3470--><p class="noindent" ><span
+<!--l. 3473--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlmgr </span>supports updates from multiple network repositories. The section on multiple
repositories in the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlmgr help </span>output has more.
-</p><!--l. 3474--><p class="indent" > The parameter <span
+</p><!--l. 3477--><p class="indent" > The parameter <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\XeTeXdashbreakstate </span>is set to 1 by default, for both <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">xetex </span>and
<span
@@ -6390,28 +6391,28 @@
retain perfect line-break compatibility will need to set <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\XeTeXdashbreakstate </span>to 0
explicitly.
-</p><!--l. 3481--><p class="indent" > The output files generated by <span
+</p><!--l. 3484--><p class="indent" > The output files generated by <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">pdftex </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">dvips</span>, among others, can now exceed 2
gigabytes.
-</p><!--l. 3484--><p class="indent" > The 35 standard PostScript fonts are included in the output of <span
+</p><!--l. 3487--><p class="indent" > The 35 standard PostScript fonts are included in the output of <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">dvips </span>by default, since so
many different versions of them are extant.
-</p><!--l. 3488--><p class="indent" > In the restricted <span
+</p><!--l. 3491--><p class="indent" > In the restricted <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\write18 </span>execution mode, set by default, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">mpost </span>is now an allowed
program.
-</p><!--l. 3491--><p class="indent" > A <span
+</p><!--l. 3494--><p class="indent" > A <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf.cnf </span>file is also found in <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">../texmf-local</span>, e.g.,
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/web2c/texmf.cnf</span>, if it exists.
-</p><!--l. 3495--><p class="indent" > The <span
+</p><!--l. 3498--><p class="indent" > The <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">updmap </span>script reads a per-tree <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">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"><code class="verb">updmap --help</code></span> output
has more.
-</p><!--l. 3499--><p class="indent" > Platforms: <span
+</p><!--l. 3502--><p class="indent" > Platforms: <span
class="ec-lmss-12">armel-linux </span>and <span
class="ec-lmss-12">mipsel-linux </span>added; <span
class="ec-lmss-12">sparc-linux </span>and <span
@@ -6421,7 +6422,7 @@
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.10 </span> <a
id="x1-820009.1.10"></a>2013</h5>
-<!--l. 3505--><p class="noindent" >Distribution layout: the top-level <span
+<!--l. 3508--><p class="noindent" >Distribution layout: the top-level <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf/ </span>directory has been merged into <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf-dist/</span>, for
simplicity. Both the <span
@@ -6429,16 +6430,16 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFDIST </span>Kpathsea variables now point to
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf-dist</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3510--><p class="indent" > Many small language collections have been merged together, to simplify installation.
-</p><!--l. 3513--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: native support for PNG output and floating-point (IEEE double) has been
+</p><!--l. 3513--><p class="indent" > Many small language collections have been merged together, to simplify installation.
+</p><!--l. 3516--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: native support for PNG output and floating-point (IEEE double) has been
added.
-</p><!--l. 3516--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: updated to Lua 5.2, and includes a new library (<span
+</p><!--l. 3519--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: updated to Lua 5.2, and includes a new library (<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">pdfscanner</span>) to process external
PDF page content, among much else (see its web pages).
-</p><!--l. 3520--><p class="indent" > XeTeX (also see its web pages for more): </p>
+</p><!--l. 3523--><p class="indent" > XeTeX (also see its web pages for more): </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3522--><p class="noindent" >The HarfBuzz library is now used for font layout instead of ICU. (ICU is still
+ <!--l. 3525--><p class="noindent" >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.)
</p></li>
@@ -6445,33 +6446,33 @@
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3525--><p class="noindent" >Graphite2 and HarfBuzz are used instead of SilGraphite for Graphite layout.
+ <!--l. 3528--><p class="noindent" >Graphite2 and HarfBuzz are used instead of SilGraphite for Graphite layout.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3527--><p class="noindent" >On Macs, Core Text is used instead of the (deprecated) ATSUI.
+ <!--l. 3530--><p class="noindent" >On Macs, Core Text is used instead of the (deprecated) ATSUI.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3528--><p class="noindent" >Prefer TrueType/OpenType fonts to Type1 when the names are the same.
+ <!--l. 3531--><p class="noindent" >Prefer TrueType/OpenType fonts to Type1 when the names are the same.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3529--><p class="noindent" >Fix occasional mismatch in font finding between XeTeX and <span
+ <!--l. 3532--><p class="noindent" >Fix occasional mismatch in font finding between XeTeX and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">xdvipdfmx</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3531--><p class="noindent" >Support OpenType math cut-ins.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 3534--><p class="indent" > <span
+ <!--l. 3534--><p class="noindent" >Support OpenType math cut-ins.</p></li></ul>
+<!--l. 3537--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmss-12">xdvi</span>: now uses FreeType instead of <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">t1lib </span>for rendering.
-</p><!--l. 3536--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 3539--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmss-12">microtype.sty</span>: some support for XeTeX (protrusion) and LuaTeX (protrusion, font
expansion, tracking), among other enhancements.
-</p><!--l. 3540--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 3543--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmss-12">tlmgr</span>: new <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">pinning </span>action to ease configuring multiple repositories; that section in <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">tlmgr --help</code></span>
has more, online at <a
href="https://tug.org/texlive/doc/tlmgr.html#MULTIPLE-REPOSITORIES" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/texlive/doc/tlmgr.html#MULTIPLE-REPOSITORIES</span></a>.
-</p><!--l. 3544--><p class="indent" > Platforms: <span
+</p><!--l. 3547--><p class="indent" > Platforms: <span
class="ec-lmss-12">armhf-linux</span>, <span
class="ec-lmss-12">mips-irix</span>, <span
class="ec-lmss-12">i386-netbsd</span>, and <span
@@ -6482,7 +6483,7 @@
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.11 </span> <a
id="x1-830009.1.11"></a>2014</h5>
-<!--l. 3550--><p class="noindent" >2014 saw another TeX tune-up from Knuth; this affected all engines, but the only visible
+<!--l. 3553--><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-12">preloaded format </span>string on the banner line. Per Knuth,
this now reflects the format that <span
@@ -6489,7 +6490,7 @@
class="ec-lmri-12">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. 3557--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: new warning-suppression parameter <span
+</p><!--l. 3560--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: new warning-suppression parameter <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfsuppresswarningpagegroup</span>; new
primitives for fake interword spaces to help with PDF text reflowing: <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfinterwordspaceon</span>,
@@ -6496,7 +6497,7 @@
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfinterwordspaceoff</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdffakespace</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3562--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: Notable changes and fixes were made to font loading and hyphenation. The
+</p><!--l. 3565--><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-12">luajittex </span>and its siblings <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texluajit </span>and
@@ -6511,10 +6512,10 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">luatex</span>. Neither we nor its
developers recommend using it except for the specific purpose of experimenting with jit on Lua
code.
-</p><!--l. 3573--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: The same image formats are now supported on all platforms (including Mac);
+</p><!--l. 3576--><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. 3578--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: A new numbersystem <span
+</p><!--l. 3581--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: A new numbersystem <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">decimal </span>is supported, along with a companion internal
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">numberprecision</span>; a new definition of <span
@@ -6523,12 +6524,12 @@
PNG output, among others.
-</p><!--l. 3583--><p class="indent" > The <span
+</p><!--l. 3586--><p class="indent" > The <span
class="ec-lmss-12">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-12">mtxrun –script pstopdf</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3588--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 3591--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmss-12">psutils </span>has been substantially revised by a new maintainer. As a result, several seldom-used
utilities (<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">fix*</span>, <span
@@ -6539,7 +6540,7 @@
than being user-level executables (this can be reversed if it turns out to be problematic). A
new script, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">psjoin</span>, has been added.
-</p><!--l. 3595--><p class="indent" > The MacTeX redistribution of TeX Live (section <a
+</p><!--l. 3598--><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
@@ -6547,10 +6548,10 @@
ImageMagick has also been excised, since TeX4ht (specifically <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tex4ht.env</span>) now uses
Ghostscript directly.
-</p><!--l. 3602--><p class="indent" > The <span
+</p><!--l. 3605--><p class="indent" > The <span
class="ec-lmss-12">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. 3606--><p class="indent" > Platforms: <span
+</p><!--l. 3609--><p class="indent" > Platforms: <span
class="ec-lmss-12">x86_64-cygwin </span>added, <span
class="ec-lmss-12">mips-irix </span>removed; Microsoft no longer supports Windows
XP, so our programs may start failing there at any time.
@@ -6558,7 +6559,7 @@
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.12 </span> <a
id="x1-840009.1.12"></a>2015</h5>
-<!--l. 3612--><p class="noindent" >LaTeX2e now incorporates, by default, changes previously included only by explicitly loading
+<!--l. 3615--><p class="noindent" >LaTeX2e now incorporates, by default, changes previously included only by explicitly loading
the <span
class="ec-lmss-12">fixltx2e </span>package, which is now a no-op. A new <span
class="ec-lmss-12">latexrelease </span>package and other mechanisms
@@ -6568,35 +6569,35 @@
class="ec-lmss-12">psnfss </span>packages, while core parts of LaTeX,
are maintained separately and are not affected by these changes (and should still
work).
-</p><!--l. 3621--><p class="indent" > Internally, LaTeX2e now includes Unicode-related engine configuration (what characters
+</p><!--l. 3624--><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. 3627--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: Support JPEG Exif as well as JFIF; do not emit a warning if
+</p><!--l. 3630--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: Support JPEG Exif as well as JFIF; do not emit a warning if
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfinclusionerrorlevel </span>is negative; sync with <span
class="ec-lmss-12">xpdf</span> 3.04.
-</p><!--l. 3631--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: New library <span
+</p><!--l. 3634--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: New library <span
class="ec-lmss-12">newtokenlib </span>for scanning tokens; bug fixes in the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">normal </span>random
number generator and other places.
-</p><!--l. 3634--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: Image handling fixes; <span
+</p><!--l. 3637--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: Image handling fixes; <span
class="ec-lmss-12">xdvipdfmx </span>binary looked for first as a sibling to <span
class="ec-lmss-12">xetex</span>;
internal <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">XDV </span>opcodes changed.
-</p><!--l. 3637--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: New numbersystem <span
+</p><!--l. 3640--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: New numbersystem <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">binary</span>; new Japanese-enabled <span
class="ec-lmss-12">upmpost </span>and <span
class="ec-lmss-12">updvitomp</span>
programs, analogous to <span
class="ec-lmss-12">up*tex</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3641--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: Updates to the included Ghostscript package for CJK support. The
+</p><!--l. 3644--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: Updates to the included Ghostscript package for CJK support. The
TeX Distribution Preference Pane now works in Yosemite (macOS 10.10). Resource-fork font
suitcases (generally without an extension) are no longer supported by XeTeX; data-fork
suitcases (<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">.dfont</span>) remain supported.
-</p><!--l. 3647--><p class="indent" > Infrastructure: The <span
+</p><!--l. 3650--><p class="indent" > Infrastructure: The <span
class="ec-lmss-12">fmtutil </span>script has been reimplemented to read <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">fmtutil.cnf </span>on a
per-tree basis, analogous to <span
@@ -6610,7 +6611,7 @@
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">PATH</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3653--><p class="indent" > Platforms: <span
+</p><!--l. 3656--><p class="indent" > Platforms: <span
class="ec-lmss-12">*-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
@@ -6622,7 +6623,7 @@
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.13 </span> <a
id="x1-850009.1.13"></a>2016</h5>
-<!--l. 3663--><p class="noindent" >LuaTeX: Sweeping changes to primitives, both renames and removals, along
+<!--l. 3666--><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
@@ -6630,10 +6631,10 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">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. 3671--><p class="indent" > Metafont: New highly experimental sibling programs MFlua and MFluajit, integrating Lua
+</p><!--l. 3674--><p class="indent" > Metafont: New highly experimental sibling programs MFlua and MFluajit, integrating Lua
with Metafont, for trial testing purposes.
-</p><!--l. 3674--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: Bug fixes and internal preparations for MetaPost 2.0.
-</p><!--l. 3676--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 3677--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: Bug fixes and internal preparations for MetaPost 2.0.
+</p><!--l. 3679--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH </span>support in all engines except LuaTeX (which will come in the
next release) and original <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tex </span>(intentionally omitted): if the environment variable
@@ -6648,13 +6649,13 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">\day</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\time</span>. The pdfTeX manual has examples
and details.
-</p><!--l. 3685--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: Three new primitives <span
+</p><!--l. 3688--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: Three new primitives <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfinfoomitdate</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfsuppressptexinfo</span>, and
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdftrailerid</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. 3690--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: New primitives <span
+</p><!--l. 3693--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: New primitives <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\XeTeXhyphenatablelength</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\XeTeXgenerateactualtext</span>,<br
class="newline" /><span
@@ -6661,10 +6662,10 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">\XeTeXinterwordspaceshaping</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\mdfivesum</span>; character class limit increased to 4096; DVI id
byte incremented.
-</p><!--l. 3695--><p class="indent" > Other utilities: </p>
+</p><!--l. 3698--><p class="indent" > Other utilities: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3697--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 3700--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">gregorio </span>is a new program, part of the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">gregoriotex </span>package for typesetting
Gregorian chant scores; it is included in <span
@@ -6671,13 +6672,13 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">shell_escape_commands </span>by default.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3701--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 3704--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">upmendex </span>is an index creation program, mostly compatible with <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">makeindex</span>, with
support for Unicode sorting, among other changes.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3705--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 3708--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">afm2tfm </span>now makes only accent-based height adjustments upward; a new option
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">-a </span>omits all adjustments.
@@ -6685,19 +6686,19 @@
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3708--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 3711--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">ps2pk </span>can handle extended PK/GF fonts.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 3711--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: The TeX Distribution Preference Pane is gone; its functionality is now in TeX
+<!--l. 3714--><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-12">cjk-gs-integrate </span>to be run by
users who wish to incorporate various CJK fonts into Ghostscript.
-</p><!--l. 3716--><p class="indent" > Infrastructure: System-level <span
+</p><!--l. 3719--><p class="indent" > Infrastructure: System-level <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">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-12">tlmgr</span>. If GPG is not available, updates proceed as
usual.
-</p><!--l. 3721--><p class="indent" > Platforms: <span
+</p><!--l. 3724--><p class="indent" > Platforms: <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">alpha-linux </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">mipsel-linux </span>removed.
@@ -6704,24 +6705,24 @@
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.14 </span> <a
id="x1-860009.1.14"></a>2017</h5>
-<!--l. 3726--><p class="noindent" >LuaTeX: More callbacks, more typesetting control, more access to internals; <span
+<!--l. 3729--><p class="noindent" >LuaTeX: More callbacks, more typesetting control, more access to internals; <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">ffi </span>library for
dynamic code loading added on some platforms.
-</p><!--l. 3730--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: Environment variable <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH_TEX_PRIMITIVES</code></span> from last year
+</p><!--l. 3733--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: Environment variable <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH_TEX_PRIMITIVES</code></span> from last year
renamed to <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">FORCE_SOURCE_DATE</code></span>, with no changes in functionality; if the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfpageattr </span>token
list contains the string <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">/MediaBox</span>, omit output of the default <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">/MediaBox</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3735--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: Unicode/OpenType math now based on HarfBuzz’s MATH table support; some
+</p><!--l. 3738--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: Unicode/OpenType math now based on HarfBuzz’s MATH table support; some
bug fixes.
-</p><!--l. 3738--><p class="indent" > Dvips: Make the last papersize special win, for consistency with <span
+</p><!--l. 3741--><p class="indent" > Dvips: Make the last papersize special win, for consistency with <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">dvipdfmx </span>and package
expectations; the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">-L0 </span>option (<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">L0 </span>config setting) restores the previous behavior of the first
special winning.
-</p><!--l. 3743--><p class="indent" > epTeX, eupTeX: New primitives <span
+</p><!--l. 3746--><p class="indent" > epTeX, eupTeX: New primitives <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfuniformdeviate</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfnormaldeviate</span>,
<span
@@ -6730,7 +6731,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfelapsedtime</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfresettimer</span>, from
pdfTeX.
-</p><!--l. 3747--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: As of this year, only macOS releases for which Apple still releases security
+</p><!--l. 3750--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: As of this year, only macOS releases for which Apple still releases security
patches will be supported in MacTeX, under the platform name <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">x86_64-darwin</code></span>; currently this
means Yosemite, El Capitan, and Sierra (10.10 and newer). Binaries for older macOS versions
are not included in MacTeX, but are still available in TeX Live (<span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">x86_64-darwinlegacy</code></span>,
@@ -6737,7 +6738,7 @@
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">i386-darwin</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">powerpc-darwin</span>).
-</p><!--l. 3754--><p class="indent" > Infrastructure: The <span
+</p><!--l. 3757--><p class="indent" > Infrastructure: The <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFLOCAL </span>tree is now searched before <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFSYSCONFIG </span>and
<span
@@ -6748,7 +6749,7 @@
and scripted use, and a new action <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">conf auxtrees </span>to easily add and remove extra
trees.
-</p><!--l. 3761--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 3764--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">updmap </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">fmtutil</span>: These scripts now give a warning when invoked without explicitly
specifying either so-called system mode (<span
@@ -6764,7 +6765,7 @@
href="https://tug.org/texlive/scripts-sys-user.html" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/texlive/scripts-sys-user.html</span></a> for
details.
-</p><!--l. 3769--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 3772--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">install-tl</span>: Personal paths such as <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFHOME </span>are now set to MacTeX values
(<span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">~/Library/...</code></span>) by default on Macs. New option <span
@@ -6774,24 +6775,24 @@
new profile variable names (but previous ones are still accepted).
-</p><!--l. 3776--><p class="indent" > SyncTeX: the name of the temporary file now looks like <span
+</p><!--l. 3779--><p class="indent" > SyncTeX: the name of the temporary file now looks like <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">foo.synctex(busy)</span>, instead of
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">foo.synctex.gz(busy) </span>(no <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">.gz</span>). Front-ends and build systems that want to remove temp
files may need adjusting.
-</p><!--l. 3781--><p class="indent" > Other utilities: <span
+</p><!--l. 3784--><p class="indent" > Other utilities: <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">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"><code class="verb">shell_escape_commands</code></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. 3788--><p class="indent" > Platforms: See MacTeX entry above; no other changes.
+</p><!--l. 3791--><p class="indent" > Platforms: See MacTeX entry above; no other changes.
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.15 </span> <a
id="x1-870009.1.15"></a>2018</h5>
-<!--l. 3793--><p class="noindent" >Kpathsea: Case-insensitive filename matching now done by default in non-system directories;
+<!--l. 3796--><p class="noindent" >Kpathsea: Case-insensitive filename matching now done by default in non-system directories;
set <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf.cnf </span>or environment variable <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf_casefold_search </span>to <span
@@ -6799,9 +6800,9 @@
in the Kpathsea manual (<a
href="https://tug.org/kpathsea" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/kpathsea</span></a>).
-</p><!--l. 3798--><p class="indent" > epTeX, eupTeX: New primitive <span
+</p><!--l. 3801--><p class="indent" > epTeX, eupTeX: New primitive <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\epTeXversion</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3800--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: Preparation for moving to Lua 5.3 in 2019: a binary <span
+</p><!--l. 3803--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: Preparation for moving to Lua 5.3 in 2019: a binary <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">luatex53 </span>is available on
most platforms, but must be renamed to <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">luatex </span>to be effective. Or use the ConTeXt Garden (
@@ -6808,19 +6809,19 @@
<a
href="https://wiki.contextgarden.net" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://wiki.contextgarden.net</span></a>) files; more information there.
-</p><!--l. 3805--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: Fixes for wrong path directions, TFM and PNG output.
-</p><!--l. 3807--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: Allow encoding vectors for bitmap fonts; current directory not hashed into PDF
+</p><!--l. 3808--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: Fixes for wrong path directions, TFM and PNG output.
+</p><!--l. 3810--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: Allow encoding vectors for bitmap fonts; current directory not hashed into PDF
ID; bug fixes for <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfprimitive </span>and related.
-</p><!--l. 3810--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: Support <span
+</p><!--l. 3813--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: Support <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">/Rotate </span>in PDF image inclusion; exit nonzero if the output driver fails;
various obscure UTF-8 and other primitive fixes.
-</p><!--l. 3814--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: See version support changes below. In addition, the files installed in
+</p><!--l. 3817--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: See version support changes below. In addition, the files installed in
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">/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. 3820--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 3823--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlmgr</span>: new front-ends <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlshell </span>(Tcl/Tk) and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlcockpit </span>(Java); JSON output; <span
@@ -6828,20 +6829,20 @@
now a synonym for <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">remove</span>; new action/option <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">print-platform-info</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3824--><p class="indent" > Platforms: </p>
+</p><!--l. 3827--><p class="indent" > Platforms: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3827--><p class="noindent" >Removed: <span
+ <!--l. 3830--><p class="noindent" >Removed: <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">armel-linux</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">powerpc-linux</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3829--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 3832--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">x86_64-darwin </span>supports 10.10–10.13 (Yosemite, El Capitan, Sierra, and
High Sierra).
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3832--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 3835--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">x86_64-darwinlegacy </span>supports 10.6–10.10 (though <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">x86_64-darwin </span>is preferred
for 10.10). All support for 10.5 (Leopard) is gone, that is, both the <span
@@ -6852,35 +6853,35 @@
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3837--><p class="noindent" >Windows: XP is no longer supported.</p></li></ul>
+ <!--l. 3840--><p class="noindent" >Windows: XP is no longer supported.</p></li></ul>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.16 </span> <a
id="x1-880009.1.16"></a>2019</h5>
-<!--l. 3843--><p class="noindent" >Kpathsea: More consistent brace expansion and path splitting; new variable <span
+<!--l. 3846--><p class="noindent" >Kpathsea: More consistent brace expansion and path splitting; new variable <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFDOTDIR</span>
instead of hard-coded <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">.</span> in paths allows for easily searching additional or sub-directories (see
comments in <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf.cnf</span>).
-</p><!--l. 3848--><p class="indent" > epTeX, eupTeX: New primitives <span
+</p><!--l. 3851--><p class="indent" > epTeX, eupTeX: New primitives <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\readpapersizespecial </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\expanded</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3851--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: Lua 5.3 now used, with concomitant arithmetic and interface changes. The
+</p><!--l. 3854--><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. 3856--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: <span
+</p><!--l. 3859--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">r-mpost </span>command name recognized as an alias for invocation with the
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">--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. 3863--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: New primitive <span
+</p><!--l. 3866--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: New primitive <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\expanded</span>; if new primitive parameter <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfomitcharset </span>is set to
1, the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">/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. 3868--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: New primitives for cross-engine support: <span
+</p><!--l. 3871--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: New primitives for cross-engine support: <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\expanded</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\creationdate</span>,
<span
@@ -6894,7 +6895,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">\uniformdeviate</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\randomseed</span>; extend <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\Ucharcat </span>to produce active characters.
-</p><!--l. 3880--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 3883--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlmgr</span>: Support <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">curl </span>as a download program; use <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">lz4 </span>and gzip before <span
@@ -6903,16 +6904,16 @@
compressor and download programs, unless the environment variable <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXLIVE_PREFER_OWN </span>is
set.
-</p><!--l. 3886--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 3889--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">install-tl</span>: New option <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">-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. 3890--><p class="indent" > Utilities: </p>
+</p><!--l. 3893--><p class="indent" > Utilities: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3892--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 3895--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">cwebbin </span>(<a
href="https://ctan.org/pkg/cwebbin" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://ctan.org/pkg/cwebbin</span></a>) is now the CWEB implementation
@@ -6921,18 +6922,18 @@
program to make mini-indexes.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3896--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 3899--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">chkdvifont</span>: report font information from DVI files, also from tfm/ofm, vf, gf, pk.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3899--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 3902--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">dvispc</span>: make a DVI file page-independent with respect to specials.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 3902--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: <span
+<!--l. 3905--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">x86_64-darwin </span>now supports 10.12 and higher (Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave);
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">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. 3907--><p class="indent" > Platforms: removed <span
+</p><!--l. 3910--><p class="indent" > Platforms: removed <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">sparc-solaris</span>.
@@ -6940,10 +6941,10 @@
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.17 </span> <a
id="x1-890009.1.17"></a>2020</h5>
-<!--l. 3912--><p class="noindent" >General: </p>
+<!--l. 3915--><p class="noindent" >General: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3913--><p class="noindent" >The <span
+ <!--l. 3916--><p class="noindent" >The <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\input </span>primitive in all TeX engines, including <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tex</span>, now also accepts a
group-delimited filename argument, as a system-dependent extension. The usage
@@ -6958,7 +6959,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">\input </span>primitive.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3923--><p class="noindent" >New option <span
+ <!--l. 3926--><p class="noindent" >New option <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">--cnf-line </span>for <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">kpsewhich</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tex</span>, <span
@@ -6966,7 +6967,7 @@
arbitrary configuration settings on the command line.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3927--><p class="noindent" >The addition of various primitives to various engines in this and previous years
+ <!--l. 3930--><p class="noindent" >The addition of various primitives to various engines in this and previous years
is intended to result in a common set of functionality available across all engines
(<span
class="ec-lmro-12">LaTeX</span><span
@@ -6975,7 +6976,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://latex-project.org/news</span></a>).
</p>
</li></ul>
-<!--l. 3934--><p class="indent" > epTeX, eupTeX: Several new primitives, mostly for cross-engine support: <span
+<!--l. 3937--><p class="indent" > epTeX, eupTeX: Several new primitives, mostly for cross-engine support: <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\Uchar</span>,
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\Ucharcat</span>, <span
@@ -6985,7 +6986,7 @@
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\iffontchar</span>. For eupTeX only: <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\currentcjktoken</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3939--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: Integration with HarfBuzz library, available as new engines <span
+</p><!--l. 3942--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: Integration with HarfBuzz library, available as new engines <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">luahbtex</span>
(used for <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">lualatex</span>) and <span
@@ -6993,24 +6994,24 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">\eTeXgluestretchorder</span>,
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\eTeXglueshrinkorder</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3943--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: New primitive <span
+</p><!--l. 3946--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: New primitive <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfmajorversion</span>; this merely changes the version number in the
PDF output; it has no effect on any PDF content. <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfximage </span>and similar now search for
image files in the same way as <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\openin</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3948--><p class="indent" > pTeX: New primitives <span
+</p><!--l. 3951--><p class="indent" > pTeX: New primitives <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\ifjfont</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\iftfont</span>. Also in epTeX, upTeX, eupTeX.
-</p><!--l. 3951--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: Fixes for <span
+</p><!--l. 3954--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: Fixes for <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\Umathchardef</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\XeTeXinterchartoks</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfsavepos</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3953--><p class="indent" > Dvips: Output encodings for bitmap fonts, for better copy/paste capabilities (
+</p><!--l. 3956--><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-12">https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb40-2/tb125rokicki-type3search.pdf</span></a>).
-</p><!--l. 3957--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: MacTeX and <span
+</p><!--l. 3960--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: MacTeX and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">x86_64-darwin </span>now require 10.13 or higher (High Sierra, Mojave,
and Catalina); <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">x86_64-darwinlegacy </span>supports 10.6 and newer. MacTeX is notarized and
@@ -7018,18 +7019,18 @@
packages. BibDesk and TeX Live Utility are not in MacTeX because they are not notarized,
but a <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">README </span>file lists urls where they can be obtained.
-</p><!--l. 3965--><p class="indent" > <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">x86_64-darwinlegacy</code></span>: drop X11 support, including <span
+</p><!--l. 3968--><p class="indent" > <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">x86_64-darwinlegacy</code></span>: drop X11 support, including <span
class="ec-lmss-12">xdvi</span>.
-</p><!--l. 3967--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 3970--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlmgr </span>and infrastructure: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3968--><p class="noindent" >Automatically retry (once) packages that fail to download.
+ <!--l. 3971--><p class="noindent" >Automatically retry (once) packages that fail to download.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3969--><p class="noindent" >New option <span
+ <!--l. 3972--><p class="noindent" >New option <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlmgr check texmfdbs</span>, to check consistency of <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">ls-R </span>files and
<span
@@ -7036,7 +7037,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">!!</span> specifications for each tree.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3972--><p class="noindent" >Use versioned filenames for the package containers, as in:<br
+ <!--l. 3975--><p class="noindent" >Use versioned filenames for the package containers, as in:<br
class="newline" /><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlnet/archive/</span><span
class="ec-lmtto-10x-x-120">pkgname</span><span
@@ -7044,16 +7045,16 @@
notable change in distribution.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3975--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 3978--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">catalogue-date </span>information no longer propagated from the TeX Catalogue, since
it was often unrelated to package updates.</p></li></ul>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.18 </span> <a
id="x1-900009.1.18"></a>2021</h5>
-<!--l. 3982--><p class="noindent" >General: </p>
+<!--l. 3985--><p class="noindent" >General: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3983--><p class="noindent" >Donald Knuth’s changes for his 2021 tuneup of TeX and Metafont are incorporated
+ <!--l. 3986--><p class="noindent" >Donald Knuth’s changes for his 2021 tuneup of TeX and Metafont are incorporated
(<a
href="https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb42-1/tb130knuth-tuneup21.pdf" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb42-1/tb130knuth-tuneup21.pdf</span></a>). They are
@@ -7063,13 +7064,13 @@
expected, the fixes are for obscure cases and do not affect any behavior in practice.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3990--><p class="noindent" >Except in original TeX: if <span
+ <!--l. 3993--><p class="noindent" >Except in original TeX: if <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\tracinglostchars </span>is set to 3 or more, missing
characters will result in an error, not just a message in the log file, and the missing
character code will be shown in hex.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 3994--><p class="noindent" >Except in original TeX: a new integer parameter <span
+ <!--l. 3997--><p class="noindent" >Except in original TeX: a new integer parameter <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\tracingstacklevels</span>, if
positive, and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\tracingmacros </span>is also positive, causes a prefix indicating the macro
@@ -7078,144 +7079,144 @@
class="lmsy-10x-x-120">≥ </span>the parameter value.
</p>
</li></ul>
-<!--l. 4002--><p class="indent" > Aleph: The Aleph-based LaTeX format, named <span
+<!--l. 4005--><p class="indent" > Aleph: The Aleph-based LaTeX format, named <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">lamed</span>, has been removed. The <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">aleph</span>
binary itself is still included and supported.
-</p><!--l. 4005--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: </p>
+</p><!--l. 4008--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4006--><p class="noindent" >Lua 5.3.6.
+ <!--l. 4009--><p class="noindent" >Lua 5.3.6.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4007--><p class="noindent" >Callback for nesting level used in <span
+ <!--l. 4010--><p class="noindent" >Callback for nesting level used in <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\tracingmacros</span>, as generalized variant of the
new <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\tracingstacklevels</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4009--><p class="noindent" >Mark math glyphs as protected to prevent processing as text.
+ <!--l. 4012--><p class="noindent" >Mark math glyphs as protected to prevent processing as text.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4010--><p class="noindent" >Removed width/ic compensation for traditional math code path.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4013--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: </p>
+ <!--l. 4013--><p class="noindent" >Removed width/ic compensation for traditional math code path.</p></li></ul>
+<!--l. 4016--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4014--><p class="noindent" ><span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH</code></span> environment variable support for reproducible output.
+ <!--l. 4017--><p class="noindent" ><span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH</code></span> environment variable support for reproducible output.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4015--><p class="noindent" >Avoid wrong final <span
+ <!--l. 4018--><p class="noindent" >Avoid wrong final <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">% </span>in <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">mpto</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4016--><p class="noindent" >Document <span
+ <!--l. 4019--><p class="noindent" >Document <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">-T </span>option, other fixes to manual.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4017--><p class="noindent" >Value of <span
+ <!--l. 4020--><p class="noindent" >Value of <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">epsilon </span>changed in binary and decimal modes, so that the function
<span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">mp_solve_rising_cubic</code></span> works as expected.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4021--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: </p>
+<!--l. 4024--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4022--><p class="noindent" >New primitives <span
+ <!--l. 4025--><p class="noindent" >New primitives <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfrunninglinkoff </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfrunninglinkon</span>; e.g., for disabling
generation of links in headers and footers.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4025--><p class="noindent" >Warn instead of aborting when “<span
+ <!--l. 4028--><p class="noindent" >Warn instead of aborting when “<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfendlink </span>ended up in different nesting level
than <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfstartlink</span>”.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4027--><p class="noindent" >Dump <span
+ <!--l. 4030--><p class="noindent" >Dump <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfglyphtounicode </span>assignments in <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">fmt </span>file.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4028--><p class="noindent" >Source: <span
+ <!--l. 4031--><p class="noindent" >Source: <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">poppler </span>support removed, as it was too hard to keep in sync with upstream.
In native TeX Live, pdfTeX has always used <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">libs/xpdf</span>, which is cut-down and
adapted code from <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">xpdf</span>.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4033--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: Fixes for math kerning.
-</p><!--l. 4035--><p class="indent" > Dvipdfmx: </p>
+<!--l. 4036--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: Fixes for math kerning.
+</p><!--l. 4038--><p class="indent" > Dvipdfmx: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4036--><p class="noindent" >Ghostscript is now invoked safely by default; to override (thereby assuming all input
+ <!--l. 4039--><p class="noindent" >Ghostscript is now invoked safely by default; to override (thereby assuming all input
files are trusted), use <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">-i dvipdfmx-unsafe.cfg</code></span>. To use PSTricks with XeTeX,
this is required, as in:<br
class="newline" /><span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">xetex -output-driver="xdvipdfmx -i dvipdfmx-unsafe.cfg -q -E" ...</code></span>
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4041--><p class="noindent" >If an image file is not found, exit with bad status.
+ <!--l. 4044--><p class="noindent" >If an image file is not found, exit with bad status.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4042--><p class="noindent" >Extended special syntax for color support.
+ <!--l. 4045--><p class="noindent" >Extended special syntax for color support.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4043--><p class="noindent" >Specials for manipulating <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">ExtGState</code></span>.
+ <!--l. 4046--><p class="noindent" >Specials for manipulating <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">ExtGState</code></span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4044--><p class="noindent" >Compatibility specials <span
+ <!--l. 4047--><p class="noindent" >Compatibility specials <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">pdfcolorstack </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">pdffontattr</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4045--><p class="noindent" >Experimental support for <span
+ <!--l. 4048--><p class="noindent" >Experimental support for <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">dviluatex</span>’s extended <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">fnt_def</code></span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4046--><p class="noindent" >Support new feature of virtual font to fallback Japanese font definition.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4049--><p class="indent" > Dvips: </p>
+ <!--l. 4049--><p class="noindent" >Support new feature of virtual font to fallback Japanese font definition.</p></li></ul>
+<!--l. 4052--><p class="indent" > Dvips: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4050--><p class="noindent" >Default PostScript document title is now the basename of the input file, and can
+ <!--l. 4053--><p class="noindent" >Default PostScript document title is now the basename of the input file, and can
be overridden with the new option <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">-title</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4052--><p class="noindent" >If an <span
+ <!--l. 4055--><p class="noindent" >If an <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">.eps </span>or other image file is not found, exit with bad status.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4054--><p class="noindent" >Support new feature of virtual font to fallback Japanese font definition.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4057--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: MacTeX and its new binary folder <span
+ <!--l. 4057--><p class="noindent" >Support new feature of virtual font to fallback Japanese font definition.</p></li></ul>
+<!--l. 4060--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: MacTeX and its new binary folder <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">universal-darwin </span>now require macOS 10.14
or higher (Mojave, Catalina, and Big Sur); the <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">x86_64-darwin</code></span> binary folder is no longer
present. The <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">x86_64-darwinlegacy</code></span> binary folder, available only with the Unix <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">install-tl</span>,
supports 10.6 and newer.
-</p><!--l. 4063--><p class="indent" > This is an important year for the Macintosh because Apple introduced ARM machines in
+</p><!--l. 4066--><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-12">universal-darwin </span>have executable code for both ARM and Intel. Both binaries
are compiled from the same source code.
-</p><!--l. 4069--><p class="indent" > The additional programs Ghostscript, LaTeXiT, TeX Live Utility, and TeXShop are all
+</p><!--l. 4072--><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. 4073--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 4076--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlmgr </span>and infrastructure: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4074--><p class="noindent" >keep only one backup of the main repository’s <span
+ <!--l. 4077--><p class="noindent" >keep only one backup of the main repository’s <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texlive.tlpdb</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4075--><p class="noindent" >even more portability across systems and Perl versions.
+ <!--l. 4078--><p class="noindent" >even more portability across systems and Perl versions.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4076--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 4079--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlmgr info </span>reports new <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">lcat-* </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">rcat-* </span>fields for local vs. remote Catalogue
@@ -7222,49 +7223,49 @@
data.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4078--><p class="noindent" >full logging of subcommands moved to a new log file:<br
+ <!--l. 4081--><p class="noindent" >full logging of subcommands moved to a new log file:<br
class="newline" /><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texmf-var/web2c/tlmgr-commands.log</span>.</p></li></ul>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.19 </span> <a
id="x1-910009.1.19"></a>2022</h5>
-<!--l. 4085--><p class="noindent" >General: </p>
+<!--l. 4088--><p class="noindent" >General: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4086--><p class="noindent" >New engine <span
+ <!--l. 4089--><p class="noindent" >New engine <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">hitex</span>, which outputs its own HINT format, designed especially for
reading technical documents on mobile devices. HINT viewers for GNU/Linux,
Windows, and Android are available separately from TeX Live.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4091--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 4094--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tangle</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">weave</span>: support optional third argument to specify output file.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4094--><p class="noindent" >Knuth’s program <span
+ <!--l. 4097--><p class="noindent" >Knuth’s program <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">twill </span>for making mini-indexes for original <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">WEB </span>programs now
included.
</p>
</li></ul>
-<!--l. 4099--><p class="indent" > Cross-engine extensions (except in original TeX, Aleph, and hiTeX): </p>
+<!--l. 4102--><p class="indent" > Cross-engine extensions (except in original TeX, Aleph, and hiTeX): </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4101--><p class="noindent" >New primitive <span
+ <!--l. 4104--><p class="noindent" >New primitive <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\showstream </span>to redirect <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\show </span>output to a file.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4102--><p class="noindent" >New primitives <span
+ <!--l. 4105--><p class="noindent" >New primitives <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\partokenname </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\partokencontext </span>allow overriding the name
of the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\par </span>token emitted at blank lines, the end of vboxes, etc.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4107--><p class="indent" > epTeX, eupTeX: </p>
+<!--l. 4110--><p class="indent" > epTeX, eupTeX: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4108--><p class="noindent" >New
+ <!--l. 4111--><p class="noindent" >New
primitives:
@@ -7278,7 +7279,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">\suppressmathparerror</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4110--><p class="noindent" >pdfTeX
+ <!--l. 4113--><p class="noindent" >pdfTeX
extension
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\vadjust</span>
@@ -7286,40 +7287,40 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">pre</span>
now
available.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4113--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: </p>
+<!--l. 4116--><p class="indent" > LuaTeX: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4114--><p class="noindent" >Support structured destinations from PDF 2.0.
+ <!--l. 4117--><p class="noindent" >Support structured destinations from PDF 2.0.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4115--><p class="noindent" >PNG /Smask for PDF 2.0.
+ <!--l. 4118--><p class="noindent" >PNG /Smask for PDF 2.0.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4116--><p class="noindent" >Variable font interface for <span
+ <!--l. 4119--><p class="noindent" >Variable font interface for <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">luahbtex</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4117--><p class="noindent" >Different radical style defaults in mathdefaultsmode.
+ <!--l. 4120--><p class="noindent" >Different radical style defaults in mathdefaultsmode.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4118--><p class="noindent" >Optionally block selected discretionary creation.
+ <!--l. 4121--><p class="noindent" >Optionally block selected discretionary creation.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4119--><p class="noindent" >Improvements for TrueType fonts implementation.
+ <!--l. 4122--><p class="noindent" >Improvements for TrueType fonts implementation.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4120--><p class="noindent" >More efficient <span
+ <!--l. 4123--><p class="noindent" >More efficient <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\fontdimen </span>allocation.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4121--><p class="noindent" >Ignore paragraphs with only a local <span
+ <!--l. 4124--><p class="noindent" >Ignore paragraphs with only a local <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">par </span>node followed by direction synchronization
nodes.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4125--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: Bug fix for infinite macro expansion.
-</p><!--l. 4127--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: </p>
+<!--l. 4128--><p class="indent" > MetaPost: Bug fix for infinite macro expansion.
+</p><!--l. 4130--><p class="indent" > pdfTeX: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4128--><p class="noindent" >Support
+ <!--l. 4131--><p class="noindent" >Support
structured
@@ -7329,7 +7330,7 @@
2.0.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4129--><p class="noindent" >For
+ <!--l. 4132--><p class="noindent" >For
letterspaced
fonts,
use
@@ -7340,7 +7341,7 @@
specified.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4130--><p class="noindent" >Always
+ <!--l. 4133--><p class="noindent" >Always
start
a
warning
@@ -7352,7 +7353,7 @@
line.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4131--><p class="noindent" >For
+ <!--l. 4134--><p class="noindent" >For
characters
with
autokern
@@ -7373,27 +7374,27 @@
hyphens.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4136--><p class="indent" > pTeX et al.: </p>
+<!--l. 4139--><p class="indent" > pTeX et al.: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4137--><p class="noindent" >Major update of pTeX to 4.0.0 to better support current LaTeX.
+ <!--l. 4140--><p class="noindent" >Major update of pTeX to 4.0.0 to better support current LaTeX.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4138--><p class="noindent" >New primitives <span
+ <!--l. 4141--><p class="noindent" >New primitives <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\ptexlineendmode </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\toucs</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4139--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 4142--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\ucs </span>(formerly available in uptex, euptex) now available also in pTeX and epTeX.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4141--><p class="noindent" >Distinguish eight-bit characters
+ <!--l. 4144--><p class="noindent" >Distinguish eight-bit characters
and Japanese characters, as discussed in a TUGboat article by Hironori Kitagawa
(<a
href="https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb41-3/tb129kitagawa-char.pdf" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb41-3/tb129kitagawa-char.pdf</span></a>).</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4146--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: New wrapper scripts <span
+<!--l. 4149--><p class="indent" > XeTeX: New wrapper scripts <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">xetex-unsafe </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">xelatex-unsafe </span>for simpler invocation of
documents requiring both XeTeX and PSTricks transparency operators, which is inherently
@@ -7400,41 +7401,41 @@
unsafe (until and unless reimplementation in Ghostscript happens). For safety, use
Lua(L<span
class="ec-lmr-8">A</span>)TeX.
-</p><!--l. 4152--><p class="indent" > Dvipdfmx: </p>
+</p><!--l. 4155--><p class="indent" > Dvipdfmx: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4153--><p class="noindent" >Support for PSTricks without requiring <span
+ <!--l. 4156--><p class="noindent" >Support for PSTricks without requiring <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">-dNOSAFER</span>, except for transparency.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4155--><p class="noindent" >The <span
+ <!--l. 4158--><p class="noindent" >The <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">-r </span>option to set bitmap font resolution works again.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4158--><p class="indent" > Dvips: By default, do not attempt automatic media adjustment for rotated paper sizes; the
+<!--l. 4161--><p class="indent" > Dvips: By default, do not attempt automatic media adjustment for rotated paper sizes; the
new option <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">--landscaperotate </span>re-enables.
-</p><!--l. 4161--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 4164--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">upmendex</span>: Experimental support for Arabic and Hebrew scripts; improved character
classification and language support.
-</p><!--l. 4164--><p class="indent" > Kpathsea: First path returned from <span
+</p><!--l. 4167--><p class="indent" > Kpathsea: First path returned from <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">kpsewhich -all </span>is now the same as a regular (non-all)
search.
-</p><!--l. 4167--><p class="indent" > <span
+</p><!--l. 4170--><p class="indent" > <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlmgr </span>and infrastructure: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4168--><p class="noindent" >use https for <span
+ <!--l. 4171--><p class="noindent" >use https for <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">mirror.ctan.org </span>by default.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4169--><p class="noindent" >use <span
+ <!--l. 4172--><p class="noindent" >use <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFROOT </span>instead of <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">SELFAUTOPARENT </span>for easier relocating.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4171--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 4174--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">install-tl</span>: if download or installation fails for a given package, automatically
continue and later retry (once).</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4175--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: MacTeX and its binary folder <span
+<!--l. 4178--><p class="indent" > MacTeX: MacTeX and its binary folder <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">universal-darwin </span>require macOS 10.14 or
higher (Mojave, Catalina, Big Sur, Monterey). The <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">x86_64-darwinlegacy</code></span> binary
@@ -7442,7 +7443,7 @@
folder, available only with the Unix <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">install-tl</span>, supports 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and
newer.
-</p><!--l. 4180--><p class="indent" > Platforms: No changes to platform support for this year (2022). However, for next year’s
+</p><!--l. 4183--><p class="indent" > Platforms: No changes to platform support for this year (2022). However, for next year’s
release (2023), we are planning to switch the Windows binaries from 32-bit to 64-bit.
Unfortunately we cannot feasibly support both simultaneously.
@@ -7449,7 +7450,7 @@
</p>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.20 </span> <a
id="x1-920009.1.20"></a>2023</h5>
-<!--l. 4188--><p class="noindent" >Windows: As announced previously, TeX Live now contains 64-bit Windows binaries instead of
+<!--l. 4191--><p class="noindent" >Windows: As announced previously, TeX Live now contains 64-bit Windows binaries instead of
32-bit. The new directory name is <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">bin/windows </span>(it did not seem right to put 64-bit
binaries into a directory named with “32”). We know this will cause extra work for
@@ -7461,7 +7462,7 @@
<a
href="https://tug.org/texlive/windows.html" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/texlive/windows.html</span></a>).
-</p><!--l. 4201--><p class="indent" >
+</p><!--l. 4204--><p class="indent" >
Cross-engine
extensions
(except
@@ -7495,37 +7496,37 @@
with
a
non-<span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">\immediate\write</code></span>.
-</p><!--l. 4207--><p class="noindent" >epTeX, eupTeX:</p>
+</p><!--l. 4210--><p class="noindent" >epTeX, eupTeX:</p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4208--><p class="noindent" >“Raw” (u)ptex no longer built; (u)ptex now runs in e(u)ptex’s compatibility mode.
+ <!--l. 4211--><p class="noindent" >“Raw” (u)ptex no longer built; (u)ptex now runs in e(u)ptex’s compatibility mode.
Same for pTeX tools, listed below.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4210--><p class="noindent" >New primitives: <span
+ <!--l. 4213--><p class="noindent" >New primitives: <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\tojis</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\ptextracingfonts</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\ptexfontname</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4212--><p class="noindent" >For <span
+ <!--l. 4215--><p class="noindent" >For <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\font</span>, new syntax for JIS/UCS is supported.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4215--><p class="noindent" >LuaTeX: </p>
+<!--l. 4218--><p class="noindent" >LuaTeX: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4216--><p class="noindent" >new primitive <span
+ <!--l. 4219--><p class="noindent" >new primitive <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\variablefam </span>to allow math characters to keep their class while
still letting the family adapt.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4218--><p class="noindent" >improved r2l annotation areas
+ <!--l. 4221--><p class="noindent" >improved r2l annotation areas
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4219--><p class="noindent" >cross-engine “late <span
+ <!--l. 4222--><p class="noindent" >cross-engine “late <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\special</span>” described above.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4220--><p class="noindent" >in LuaTeX 1.17.0, released in May 2023: the socket library is now disabled by
+ <!--l. 4223--><p class="noindent" >in LuaTeX 1.17.0, released in May 2023: the socket library is now disabled by
default; a new command line option <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">–socket </span>enables it, as well as <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">–shell-escape</span>
@@ -7536,21 +7537,21 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">os.socketgettime </span>are also always
available. Finally, some obscure ways to work around various security features were
fixed.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4230--><p class="noindent" >MetaPost: Bug fixes. <span
+<!--l. 4233--><p class="noindent" >MetaPost: Bug fixes. <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">svg->dx </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">svg->dy </span>are now <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">double</span>, for better precision;
<span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">mp_begin_iteration</code></span> updated; memory leak in <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">mplib </span>fixed.
-</p><!--l. 4234--><p class="noindent" >pdfTeX: </p>
+</p><!--l. 4237--><p class="noindent" >pdfTeX: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4235--><p class="noindent" >new primitive <span
+ <!--l. 4238--><p class="noindent" >new primitive <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfomitinfodict </span>to omit <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">/Info </span>dictionary completely.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4237--><p class="noindent" >new primitive <span
+ <!--l. 4240--><p class="noindent" >new primitive <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfomitprocset </span>to control omitting <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">/ProcSet </span>array: <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">/ProcSet </span>is
@@ -7560,7 +7561,7 @@
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4241--><p class="noindent" >with <span
+ <!--l. 4244--><p class="noindent" >with <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfinterwordspaceon</span>, if the current font’s encoding has a <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">/space </span>character
at slot 32, it is used; otherwise, the <span
@@ -7570,35 +7571,35 @@
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfspacefont</span>. This same new procedure is used for <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdffakespace</span>.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4249--><p class="noindent" >pTeX et al.: </p>
+<!--l. 4252--><p class="noindent" >pTeX et al.: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4250--><p class="noindent" >As mentioned above, <span
+ <!--l. 4253--><p class="noindent" >As mentioned above, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">ptex </span>now runs <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">eptex </span>in compatibility mode instead of being
built separately.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4253--><p class="noindent" >pTeX tools (pbibtex, pdvitype, ppltotf, ptftopl) merged into corresponding upTeX
+ <!--l. 4256--><p class="noindent" >pTeX tools (pbibtex, pdvitype, ppltotf, ptftopl) merged into corresponding upTeX
versions, running in compatibility mode.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4257--><p class="noindent" >XeTeX: fixed <span
+<!--l. 4260--><p class="noindent" >XeTeX: fixed <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\topskip </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\splittopskip </span>computation when <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\XeTeXupwardsmode </span>is active;
the cross-engine “late <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\special</span>” described above.
-</p><!--l. 4261--><p class="noindent" >Dvipdfmx: new option <span
+</p><!--l. 4264--><p class="noindent" >Dvipdfmx: new option <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">--pdfm-str-utf8 </span>to make pdfmark and/or bookmark.
-</p><!--l. 4264--><p class="noindent" >BibTeXu: </p>
+</p><!--l. 4267--><p class="noindent" >BibTeXu: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4265--><p class="noindent" >This BibTeX variant is mostly upward-compatible with BibTeX, with much better
+ <!--l. 4268--><p class="noindent" >This BibTeX variant is mostly upward-compatible with BibTeX, with much better
(Unicode-based) multilingual support. It’s been in TeX Live for some years.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4268--><p class="noindent" >This year, more features to support CJK languages have been added, some
+ <!--l. 4271--><p class="noindent" >This year, more features to support CJK languages have been added, some
extended from the Japanese (u)pbibtex and other programs.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4272--><p class="noindent" >Kpathsea: Support guessing input file encodings for Unix-ish platforms, as on Windows;
+<!--l. 4275--><p class="noindent" >Kpathsea: Support guessing input file encodings for Unix-ish platforms, as on Windows;
enabled for (<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">e</span>)<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">p</span>(<span
@@ -7606,21 +7607,21 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">tex</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">pbibtex</span>, <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">mendex</span>.
-</p><!--l. 4277--><p class="noindent" ><span
+</p><!--l. 4280--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlmgr </span>and infrastructure: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4278--><p class="noindent" >default to text interface on macOS.
+ <!--l. 4281--><p class="noindent" >default to text interface on macOS.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4279--><p class="noindent" >install core packages first, retry other packages once.
+ <!--l. 4282--><p class="noindent" >install core packages first, retry other packages once.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4280--><p class="noindent" >simplistic checks are done for enough disk space.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4283--><p class="noindent" >MacTeX: </p>
+ <!--l. 4283--><p class="noindent" >simplistic checks are done for enough disk space.</p></li></ul>
+<!--l. 4286--><p class="noindent" >MacTeX: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4284--><p class="noindent" >MacTeX and its binary folder <span
+ <!--l. 4287--><p class="noindent" >MacTeX and its binary folder <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">universal-darwin </span>require macOS 10.14 or higher
(Mojave, Catalina, Big Sur, Monterey, Ventura). The <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">x86_64-darwinlegacy</span>
@@ -7631,7 +7632,7 @@
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4290--><p class="noindent" >The GUI package in MacTeX now contains <span
+ <!--l. 4293--><p class="noindent" >The GUI package in MacTeX now contains <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">hintview</span>, a macOS viewer for HINT
documents (created by the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">hitex </span>and <span
@@ -7646,43 +7647,43 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">hintview</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4297--><p class="noindent" >The <span
+ <!--l. 4300--><p class="noindent" >The <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">Extras </span>folder of additional TeX software on the DVD has been replaced with
a document containing links to download sites.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4301--><p class="noindent" >Platforms: </p>
+<!--l. 4304--><p class="noindent" >Platforms: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4302--><p class="noindent" >As mentioned above, the new <span
+ <!--l. 4305--><p class="noindent" >As mentioned above, the new <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">windows </span>binary directory contains 64-bit Windows
binaries, and
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4304--><p class="noindent" >the <span
+ <!--l. 4307--><p class="noindent" >the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">bin/win32 </span>binary directory is gone, since we cannot support 32-bit and 64-bit
Windows simultaneously.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4306--><p class="noindent" >The <span
+ <!--l. 4309--><p class="noindent" >The <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">i386-cygwin </span>binary directory is gone, since Cygwin no longer supports i386.</p></li></ul>
<h5 class="subsubsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.1.21 </span> <a
id="x1-930009.1.21"></a>2024</h5>
-<!--l. 4313--><p class="noindent" >Cross-engine changes (except in original TeX, e-TeX, and LuaTeX): </p>
+<!--l. 4316--><p class="noindent" >Cross-engine changes (except in original TeX, e-TeX, and LuaTeX): </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4315--><p class="noindent" >Avoid crashes on devious use of <span
+ <!--l. 4318--><p class="noindent" >Avoid crashes on devious use of <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\output </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\write </span>braces.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4316--><p class="noindent" >Tiny inner-loop optimization. (Both these changes are due to David Fuchs.)</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4320--><p class="noindent" >LuaTeX: </p>
+ <!--l. 4319--><p class="noindent" >Tiny inner-loop optimization. (Both these changes are due to David Fuchs.)</p></li></ul>
+<!--l. 4323--><p class="noindent" >LuaTeX: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4321--><p class="noindent" >Lua-level checks for writing to files now similar to the TeX-level checks.
+ <!--l. 4324--><p class="noindent" >Lua-level checks for writing to files now similar to the TeX-level checks.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4323--><p class="noindent" >If the Lua value <span
+ <!--l. 4326--><p class="noindent" >If the Lua value <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texconfig.trace_extra_newline </span>is set, blank lines are output
in the log between macro parameters. In 2020–2023, this was the case by default;
before that, such blank lines were never output, which is the behavior of the other
@@ -7689,16 +7690,16 @@
engines.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4327--><p class="noindent" >In the past, Windows <span
+ <!--l. 4330--><p class="noindent" >In the past, Windows <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">texlua </span>(not <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">luatex</span>, and not any other platform), internally
performed wildcard expansion on the arguments. This no longer happens.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4332--><p class="noindent" >MetaPost: </p>
+<!--l. 4335--><p class="noindent" >MetaPost: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4333--><p class="noindent" >MPFI
+ <!--l. 4336--><p class="noindent" >MPFI
library
now
included
@@ -7709,55 +7710,55 @@
with
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">--numbersystem=interval</span>.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4337--><p class="noindent" >pdfTeX: </p>
+<!--l. 4340--><p class="noindent" >pdfTeX: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4338--><p class="noindent" >More reliable text extraction on BigEndian systems.
+ <!--l. 4341--><p class="noindent" >More reliable text extraction on BigEndian systems.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4339--><p class="noindent" >More checks against corrupt pfb, fmt, pdf files.
+ <!--l. 4342--><p class="noindent" >More checks against corrupt pfb, fmt, pdf files.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4340--><p class="noindent" >Avoid writing a corrupt pdf given unusual pdf inclusions.
+ <!--l. 4343--><p class="noindent" >Avoid writing a corrupt pdf given unusual pdf inclusions.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4341--><p class="noindent" >Manual converted to LaTeX and thoroughly reviewed, though substantive updates
+ <!--l. 4344--><p class="noindent" >Manual converted to LaTeX and thoroughly reviewed, though substantive updates
are minimal.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4345--><p class="noindent" >epTeX, eupTeX: </p>
+<!--l. 4348--><p class="noindent" >epTeX, eupTeX: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4346--><p class="noindent" >New simple encoding conversion utility <span
+ <!--l. 4349--><p class="noindent" >New simple encoding conversion utility <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">ptekf</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4347--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 4350--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">eptex </span>no longer built separately; it runs in <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">euptex</span>’s legacy-encoding mode.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4351--><p class="noindent" >XeTeX: </p>
+<!--l. 4354--><p class="noindent" >XeTeX: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4352--><p class="noindent" >Unicode characters in filenames beyond the BMP are supported.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4355--><p class="noindent" >Dvipdfmx: </p>
+ <!--l. 4355--><p class="noindent" >Unicode characters in filenames beyond the BMP are supported.</p></li></ul>
+<!--l. 4358--><p class="noindent" >Dvipdfmx: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4356--><p class="noindent" >Calculate time zone offset in the same way as pdfTeX.
+ <!--l. 4359--><p class="noindent" >Calculate time zone offset in the same way as pdfTeX.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4357--><p class="noindent" >Handle variation selectors to cope with the new Adobe-Japan1-UCS2 CMap.
+ <!--l. 4360--><p class="noindent" >Handle variation selectors to cope with the new Adobe-Japan1-UCS2 CMap.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4358--><p class="noindent" >Fallback multibyte characters in virtual fonts to OFM fonts for (u)pTeX.
+ <!--l. 4361--><p class="noindent" >Fallback multibyte characters in virtual fonts to OFM fonts for (u)pTeX.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4359--><p class="noindent" >Support the <span
+ <!--l. 4362--><p class="noindent" >Support the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">named </span>keyword in the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">pdf:image </span>special.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4362--><p class="noindent" >Kpathsea: </p>
+<!--l. 4365--><p class="noindent" >Kpathsea: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4363--><p class="noindent" >Support an extended check for safe filenames which also allows writing under
+ <!--l. 4366--><p class="noindent" >Support an extended check for safe filenames which also allows writing under
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMF</span>[<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">SYS</span>]<span
@@ -7767,43 +7768,43 @@
options.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4366--><p class="noindent" >Support a new variable <span
+ <!--l. 4369--><p class="noindent" >Support a new variable <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMF_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY </span>(alongside the traditional
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">TEXMFOUTPUT</span>), so that subprograms can have access to an <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">--output-directory</span>
setting in an engine invocation.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4371--><p class="noindent" >CWEB: </p>
+<!--l. 4374--><p class="noindent" >CWEB: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4372--><p class="noindent" >Support LuaTeX as backend TeX engine.
+ <!--l. 4375--><p class="noindent" >Support LuaTeX as backend TeX engine.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4373--><p class="noindent" >Fix buffer overflow on lines with no breakpoint.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4376--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 4376--><p class="noindent" >Fix buffer overflow on lines with no breakpoint.</p></li></ul>
+<!--l. 4379--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlmgr</span>: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4377--><p class="noindent" >New action <span
+ <!--l. 4380--><p class="noindent" >New action <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">bug </span>to help find bug-reporting information.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4378--><p class="noindent" >Use our own root certificate bundle on all platforms, to support LWP more widely,
+ <!--l. 4381--><p class="noindent" >Use our own root certificate bundle on all platforms, to support LWP more widely,
notably on macOS.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4380--><p class="noindent" >Detect a remote repository older than the local installation (i.e., a stale mirror),
+ <!--l. 4383--><p class="noindent" >Detect a remote repository older than the local installation (i.e., a stale mirror),
and don’t update, to avoid incorrect package removals.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4382--><p class="noindent" >Support ConTeXt paper size setting.
+ <!--l. 4385--><p class="noindent" >Support ConTeXt paper size setting.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4383--><p class="noindent" >Prune backups of tlpdb files for mirrored repositories (main and tlcontrib).</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4387--><p class="noindent" >Platforms: </p>
+ <!--l. 4386--><p class="noindent" >Prune backups of tlpdb files for mirrored repositories (main and tlcontrib).</p></li></ul>
+<!--l. 4390--><p class="noindent" >Platforms: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4388--><p class="noindent" >The ISO image again includes binaries for all platforms. For the last several
+ <!--l. 4391--><p class="noindent" >The ISO image again includes binaries for all platforms. For the last several
years, some binary sets had been pruned, but this year, we are not creating a
@@ -7815,45 +7816,45 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/texcollection/</span></a>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4395--><p class="noindent" >Robert Alessi provides binaries for a native TeX Live installation on OpenBSD at
+ <!--l. 4398--><p class="noindent" >Robert Alessi provides binaries for a native TeX Live installation on OpenBSD at
<a
href="https://sr.ht/~ralessi/texlive-openbsd/" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://sr.ht/~ralessi/texlive-openbsd/</span></a>.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4399--><p class="noindent" >MacTeX: contains the latest Ghostscript 10.03.0, updates of all four GUI programs, along with
+<!--l. 4402--><p class="noindent" >MacTeX: contains the latest Ghostscript 10.03.0, updates of all four GUI programs, along with
(as always) all new TeX Live changes. The binaries still support macOS 10.14 (Mojave, 2018)
and later. (As usual, earlier Mac versions are supported by the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">x86_64-darwinlegacy</span>
binaries, which are part of TeX Live, but not MacTeX.)
-</p><!--l. 4406--><p class="indent" > <a id="news"></a>
+</p><!--l. 4409--><p class="indent" > <a id="news"></a>
</p>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.2 </span> <a
id="x1-940009.2"></a>Present: 2025</h4>
-<!--l. 4410--><p class="noindent" >Cross-engine changes (except in original TeX): </p>
+<!--l. 4413--><p class="noindent" >Cross-engine changes (except in original TeX): </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4412--><p class="noindent" >Generate PDF-1.7 in all formats, both plain and LaTeX; before, it was 1.5. You may
+ <!--l. 4415--><p class="noindent" >Generate PDF-1.7 in all formats, both plain and LaTeX; before, it was 1.5. You may
need an older version, especially for printing companies. You can generate, e.g., PDF-1.4
in various ways: </p>
<ul class="itemize2">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4416--><p class="noindent" >Running <span
+ <!--l. 4419--><p class="noindent" >Running <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">ps2pdf14 </span>on the PDF file after it’s generated by TeX; this simple
wrapper is part of Ghostscript. Other external software can do the same job.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4419--><p class="noindent" >LaTeX with PDF backends: <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">\pdf_version_gset:n{1.4}</code></span>
+ <!--l. 4422--><p class="noindent" >LaTeX with PDF backends: <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">\pdf_version_gset:n{1.4}</code></span>
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4420--><p class="noindent" >pdfTeX: <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">\pdfmajorversion=1 \pdfminorversion=4</code></span>
+ <!--l. 4423--><p class="noindent" >pdfTeX: <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">\pdfmajorversion=1 \pdfminorversion=4</code></span>
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4421--><p class="noindent" >LuaTeX: <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">\pdfvariable majorversion=1 \pdfvariable minorversion=4</code></span>
+ <!--l. 4424--><p class="noindent" >LuaTeX: <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">\pdfvariable majorversion=1 \pdfvariable minorversion=4</code></span>
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4423--><p class="noindent" >XeTeX: <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">\special{pdf:majorversion:1}\special{pdf:minorversion:4}</code></span></p></li></ul>
+ <!--l. 4426--><p class="noindent" >XeTeX: <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">\special{pdf:majorversion:1}\special{pdf:minorversion:4}</code></span></p></li></ul>
</li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4426--><p class="noindent" >If TeX exits due to the <span
+ <!--l. 4429--><p class="noindent" >If TeX exits due to the <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">-halt-on-error </span>option, write the help message to the log file, as
happens by default.
</p></li>
@@ -7860,7 +7861,7 @@
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4428--><p class="noindent" >New primitive parameter <span
+ <!--l. 4431--><p class="noindent" >New primitive parameter <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\ignoreprimitiveerror</span>; if set to 1, the error <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">"Infinite</span>
<span
@@ -7872,21 +7873,21 @@
“Enhancements to the new mark mechanism”.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4435--><p class="noindent" >Scaling fonts to <span
+ <!--l. 4438--><p class="noindent" >Scaling fonts to <span
class="lmsy-10x-x-120">≥ </span><span
class="rm-lmr-12">2048</span>pt now results in an error message, instead of (unhandled)
arithmetic overflow or silent changing of the user’s value.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4439--><p class="noindent" >LuaTeX: </p>
+<!--l. 4442--><p class="noindent" >LuaTeX: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4440--><p class="noindent" >LuaJIT 2.1.1736781742.
+ <!--l. 4443--><p class="noindent" >LuaJIT 2.1.1736781742.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4441--><p class="noindent" >New <span
+ <!--l. 4444--><p class="noindent" >New <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">luaffi </span>lib, supporting aarch64.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4442--><p class="noindent" >If <span
+ <!--l. 4445--><p class="noindent" >If <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\tracinglostchars=4</span>, warn about
missing characters when glyphs are processed, instead of waiting until typesetting
needs them. If <span
@@ -7893,126 +7894,126 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">\tracinglostchars=5</span>, make that “early” diagnostic into an error.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4446--><p class="noindent" >New primitive <span
+ <!--l. 4449--><p class="noindent" >New primitive <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\mathemptydisplaymode</span>; when set to to 1, empty paragraphs before
a display equation will be ignored. By default paragraphs before a display equation
containing dir nodes are not ignored, which has been the traditional behavior.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4450--><p class="noindent" >For PNG handling, we no longer set the attr on the mask. If we get a report about
+ <!--l. 4453--><p class="noindent" >For PNG handling, we no longer set the attr on the mask. If we get a report about
dropping this we could add a <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">maskattr </span>feature, but one should consider to include
a correct pdf of the image instead, as it’s more robust.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4454--><p class="noindent" >Handle token combiners in immediate assignments.
+ <!--l. 4457--><p class="noindent" >Handle token combiners in immediate assignments.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4455--><p class="noindent" >Cross-engine updates noted above.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4461--><p class="noindent" >pdfTeX: </p>
+ <!--l. 4458--><p class="noindent" >Cross-engine updates noted above.</p></li></ul>
+<!--l. 4464--><p class="noindent" >pdfTeX: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4462--><p class="noindent" >new primitive <span
+ <!--l. 4465--><p class="noindent" >new primitive <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\pdfptexuseunderscore </span>to use <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">_</code></span> instead of <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">.</code></span> in various dictionary
entries, e.g., <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">PTEX_Fullbanner</code></span> instead of <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">PTEX.Fullbanner</code></span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4465--><p class="noindent" >Don’t omit real spaces just because the font changes.
+ <!--l. 4468--><p class="noindent" >Don’t omit real spaces just because the font changes.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4466--><p class="noindent" >Increase tolerance for detecting interword spaces in overfull lines.
+ <!--l. 4469--><p class="noindent" >Increase tolerance for detecting interword spaces in overfull lines.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4467--><p class="noindent" >Ignore tiny resolutions like 1x1 embedded in images instead of exceeding
+ <!--l. 4470--><p class="noindent" >Ignore tiny resolutions like 1x1 embedded in images instead of exceeding
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\maxdimen</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4469--><p class="noindent" >Cross-engine updates noted above.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4472--><p class="noindent" >epTeX, eupTeX: </p>
+ <!--l. 4472--><p class="noindent" >Cross-engine updates noted above.</p></li></ul>
+<!--l. 4475--><p class="noindent" >epTeX, eupTeX: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4473--><p class="noindent" >Support combining characters with multiple codepoints, Unicode Latin characters
+ <!--l. 4476--><p class="noindent" >Support combining characters with multiple codepoints, Unicode Latin characters
and 16-bit OFM Level-0 with new kcatcodes: <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">modifier</span>(20), <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">latin_ucs</code></span>(14).
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4476--><p class="noindent" >Cross-engine updates noted above.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4479--><p class="noindent" >XeTeX: </p>
+ <!--l. 4479--><p class="noindent" >Cross-engine updates noted above.</p></li></ul>
+<!--l. 4482--><p class="noindent" >XeTeX: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4480--><p class="noindent" >Cross-engine updates noted above.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4483--><p class="noindent" >Dvipdfmx: </p>
+ <!--l. 4483--><p class="noindent" >Cross-engine updates noted above.</p></li></ul>
+<!--l. 4486--><p class="noindent" >Dvipdfmx: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4484--><p class="noindent" >The <span
+ <!--l. 4487--><p class="noindent" >The <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">ebb </span>executable is now a separately-maintained script instead of a link to
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">dvipdfmx</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4486--><p class="noindent" >Support upTeX new encoding for combining characters via virtual fonts.
+ <!--l. 4489--><p class="noindent" >Support upTeX new encoding for combining characters via virtual fonts.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4487--><p class="noindent" >Fixes for embedded TrueType fonts with <span
+ <!--l. 4490--><p class="noindent" >Fixes for embedded TrueType fonts with <span
class="lmmi-12">> </span><span
class="rm-lmr-12">127 </span>glyphs, and more.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4488--><p class="noindent" >Fixes for including images multiple times.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4491--><p class="noindent" >CWEB: </p>
+ <!--l. 4491--><p class="noindent" >Fixes for including images multiple times.</p></li></ul>
+<!--l. 4494--><p class="noindent" >CWEB: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4492--><p class="noindent" >New option <span
+ <!--l. 4495--><p class="noindent" >New option <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">+F </span>for cweave and ctwill for compound statements.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4493--><p class="noindent" >Sync pdf bookmark pages with table-of-contents.
+ <!--l. 4496--><p class="noindent" >Sync pdf bookmark pages with table-of-contents.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4494--><p class="noindent" >Integration of Martin Ruckert’s solution for faster index sorting.
+ <!--l. 4497--><p class="noindent" >Integration of Martin Ruckert’s solution for faster index sorting.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4495--><p class="noindent" >Support macro <span
+ <!--l. 4498--><p class="noindent" >Support macro <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">\9 </span>for sorting names-of-the-sections.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4496--><p class="noindent" >Improved sorting algorithm in <span
+ <!--l. 4499--><p class="noindent" >Improved sorting algorithm in <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">ctwill-proofsort</span>.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4497--><p class="noindent" >Output names-of-the-sections in <span
+ <!--l. 4500--><p class="noindent" >Output names-of-the-sections in <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">ctwill </span>format.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4500--><p class="indent" > Dvips: </p>
+<!--l. 4503--><p class="indent" > Dvips: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4501--><p class="noindent" >Support upTeX new encoding for combining characters via virtual fonts.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4505--><p class="noindent" >Kpathsea: </p>
+ <!--l. 4504--><p class="noindent" >Support upTeX new encoding for combining characters via virtual fonts.</p></li></ul>
+<!--l. 4508--><p class="noindent" >Kpathsea: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4506--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 4509--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">kpsewhich </span>outputs a blank line when a given file cannot be found, if more than
one file to search for is specified.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4510--><p class="noindent" ><span
+<!--l. 4513--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlmgr</span>: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4511--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 4514--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlmgr info</span>: new option <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">–only-files </span>to just report the files for a given package.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4513--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 4516--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tlmgr search</span>: new option <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">–json</span>.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4516--><p class="noindent" >Platforms: </p>
+<!--l. 4519--><p class="noindent" >Platforms: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4517--><p class="noindent" >The <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">x86_64-linux</code></span> binaries are now built on Alma Linux 8, since support for
+ <!--l. 4520--><p class="noindent" >The <span class="obeylines-h"><code class="verb">x86_64-linux</code></span> binaries are now built on Alma Linux 8, since support for
CentOS 7 (even for security updates) ended as of June 30, 2024. We regret
this but see no alternative. Binaries for older systems will be available (see
<a
@@ -8020,7 +8021,7 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/texlive/custom-bin.html</span></a>).
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4523--><p class="noindent" >TeX Live now provides a file <span
+ <!--l. 4526--><p class="noindent" >TeX Live now provides a file <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">scripts-targets.lst </span>with both the name and
the target for symlinked scripts, for the convenience of distros. It’s in the source
directory <span
@@ -8027,26 +8028,26 @@
class="ec-lmtt-12">Build/source/texk/texlive/linked_scripts</span>. The longstanding file
<span
class="ec-lmtt-12">scripts.lst</span>, with just the targets, in that directory, is still maintained.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4531--><p class="noindent" >Windows: </p>
+<!--l. 4534--><p class="noindent" >Windows: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4533--><p class="noindent" >Visual Basic usage in <span
+ <!--l. 4536--><p class="noindent" >Visual Basic usage in <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">uninstall-windows </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">runscript.tlu </span>has been replaced
by Powershell, since VB is optional as of Windows 11.</p></li></ul>
-<!--l. 4538--><p class="noindent" >MacTeX: Again this year, MacTeX-2025 supports both Arm and Intel processors on macOS
+<!--l. 4541--><p class="noindent" >MacTeX: Again this year, MacTeX-2025 supports both Arm and Intel processors on macOS
10.14 (Mojave, 2018), and higher. It installs: </p>
<ul class="itemize1">
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4542--><p class="noindent" >TeX Live 2025.
+ <!--l. 4545--><p class="noindent" >TeX Live 2025.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4543--><p class="noindent" >Ghostscript-10.04.0.
+ <!--l. 4546--><p class="noindent" >Ghostscript-10.04.0.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4544--><p class="noindent" ><span
+ <!--l. 4547--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">libgs </span>and <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">mutool</span>, for <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">dvisvgm</span>. In previous years, this <span
@@ -8056,29 +8057,29 @@
and without X11.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4548--><p class="noindent" >HintView 2.0, which understands the color extensions added to the latest <span
+ <!--l. 4551--><p class="noindent" >HintView 2.0, which understands the color extensions added to the latest <span
class="ec-lmtt-12">hitex </span>in
TeX Live 2025.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4550--><p class="noindent" >Asymptote, which now requires macOS 11 (Big Sur, 2020) or higher.
+ <!--l. 4553--><p class="noindent" >Asymptote, which now requires macOS 11 (Big Sur, 2020) or higher.
</p></li>
<li class="itemize">
- <!--l. 4551--><p class="noindent" >TeXShop 5.49, which supports Apple’s latest Apple Intelligence features, including
+ <!--l. 4554--><p class="noindent" >TeXShop 5.49, which supports Apple’s latest Apple Intelligence features, including
Writing Tools.</p></li></ul>
<h4 class="subsectionHead"><span class="titlemark">9.3 </span> <a
id="x1-950009.3"></a>Future</h4>
-<!--l. 4558--><p class="noindent" >We intend to continue to release new versions of TeX Live, and would like to provide more
+<!--l. 4561--><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-12">https://tug.org/texlive/contribute.html</span></a>.
-</p><!--l. 4564--><p class="indent" > Please send corrections, suggestions, and offers of help to:
+</p><!--l. 4567--><p class="indent" > Please send corrections, suggestions, and offers of help to:
</p><blockquote class="quote">
- <!--l. 4566--><p class="noindent" > <a
+ <!--l. 4569--><p class="noindent" > <a
href="mailto:tex-live at tug.org" ><span class="path"><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">tex-live at tug.org</span></span></a> <span
class="ec-lmr-10x-x-109">(you need not subscribe in order to post)</span><br
@@ -8085,7 +8086,7 @@
class="newline" /><a
href="https://tug.org/texlive" class="url" ><span
class="ec-lmtt-12">https://tug.org/texlive</span></a></p></blockquote>
-<!--l. 4571--><p class="noindent" ><span
+<!--l. 4574--><p class="noindent" ><span
class="ec-lmro-12">Happy TeXing!</span>
</p>
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@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
\GNU/Linux, \macOS, and Cygwin. The included sources can be compiled
on platforms for which we do not provide binaries.
-As to Windows: Windows~7 and later are supported. Windows Vista
+As to Windows: Windows~10 and later are supported. Windows 7 and Vista
\emph{may} still mostly work, but \TL{} will no longer even install
on Windows XP or earlier. \TL{} includes 64-bit executables for
Windows.
@@ -459,9 +459,9 @@
\filename{install-tl.zip} which can be used under Unix and Windows, or
the considerably smaller \filename{install-unx.tar.gz} for Unix
only. After unpacking, \filename{install-tl} and
-\filename{install-tl-windows.bat} will be in the \dirname{install-tl}
-subdirectory.
-
+\filename{install-tl-windows.bat} will be in the
+subdirectory \dirname{install-tl-yyyymmdd}, where yyyymmdd
+represents the date when the installer was generated.
\item[Net installer, Windows .exe:] Download from \CTAN{} as above,
and double-click. This starts up a first-stage installer and unpacker;
see figure~\ref{fig:nsis}. It gives two choices: `Install'
@@ -606,7 +606,8 @@
Non-ASCII characters in the path for the \TL\ installation must be
avoided. This may be a problem particularly under Windows 11, where
-users are forced to use a Microsoft network account. See
+users are forced to create a Microsoft network account upon
+installation of Windows. See
\url{https://tug.org/texlive/windows.html\#nonascii} for some
workarounds.
@@ -831,6 +832,11 @@
especially if you will be the sole user. Use `|~|' to indicate this, as
in `|~/texlive/2025|'.
+But do not use your home directory on Windows if the name of your home
+or `userprofile' contains non-ASCII characters. We are looking into
+possible solutions, but cannot promise anything at this point. See also
+\url{https://tug.org/texlive/windows.html\#nonascii}.
+
We recommend including the year in the name, to enable keeping different
releases of \TL{} side by side. (You may wish to also maintain a
version-independent name, such as \dirname{/usr/local/texlive-cur}, via a
@@ -1104,12 +1110,12 @@
find that, obviating the need for any man page setup.
-\subsubsection{Internet updates after \DVD\ installation}
+\subsubsection{Internet updates after \DVD\ or \ISO\ installation}
\label{sec:dvd-install-net-updates}
-If you installed \TL\ from \DVD\ and then wish to get updates from the
-Internet, you need to run this command---\emph{after} you've updated
-your search path (as described in the previous section):
+If you installed \TL\ from \DVD\ or an \ISO\ image and then wish to get
+updates from the Internet, you need to run this command---\emph{after}
+you've updated your search path (as described in the previous section):
\begin{alltt}
> \Ucom{tlmgr option repository https://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet}
@@ -1761,10 +1767,7 @@
\item[PostScript support.] For PostScript files, a PSviewer filetype
now converts PostScript to a temporary PDF, which is then
- displayed by the default PDF viewer. Various bitmapped formats get
- an entry \cmdname{bitmap2eps} in their `Open with' right-click
- menu for converting to EPS, letting \cmdname{sam2p} or
- \cmdname{bmeps} do the real work.
+ displayed by the default PDF viewer.
\item[Automatic path adjustment.] No manual configuration steps are required.
@@ -1909,7 +1912,7 @@
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 \TL{} would never get precedence. As a fallback, the installer
+new \TL{} would never get precedence. As a workaround, the installer
creates a shortcut to the command-prompt in which the new \TL{} binary
directory is prepended to the local search path. The new \TL{} will be
always usable from within such a command-prompt. The shortcut for
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