UK TeX FAQ, version 3.14 (fwd)

[Christina Thiele]

I'm sure most of you know about the UK TeX FAQ, which has been around
a long time. There's a new version, with mention of this support
group, and the announcement lists all the changes from the last
version. I don't recall having seen this sort of itemised list of
changes, which is very nice to see.

It's well worth bookmarking or even printing up and putting into a
binder for reference.

Ch.

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> From ctan-ann-bounces at dante.de  Thu Jul  7 08:33:22 2005
> To: ctan-ann at dante.de
> ...
> Subject: UK TeX FAQ, version 3.14
> ...
>
> I have just installed at Cambridge this version of the UK FAQ; I have
> update both the web entry (http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq) and the CTAN
> directory help/uk-tex-faq.
>
> This is mostly a consolidation release, but see CHANGES-3.14, below.
>
> Note, I do not intend that the next release should be 3.141; I
> entertain some hopes that the next release will incorporate a new
> Web-access mechanism that I have in sketch form ... in which case the
> release will be called 4.0.
>
> Robin Fairbairns
>
> UK TeX FAQ maintainer, for the CTAN team
>
> CHANGES-3.14
>
> Changes in version 3.14
>
> New answers:
>   Label breaklinks: why hyperlinks don't break under dvips
>   Label cmdstar: defining a LaTeX command with an optional *
>   Label errmissitem: what to do about "perhaps a missing item"
>   Label minxampl: how to write a minimal example of a problem
>   Label plninltx: pros and cons about using non-LaTeX commands in LaTeX
>   Label wrongpn: the unreliability of \thepage
>
> Revised answers:
>   Label archives: edited out things we no longer do, removed fine detail
>                   of archive locations (has been wrong for some time)...
>   Label bibtranscinit: another trick from Philip Ratcliffe
>   Label codelist: while recommending listings, explain alternatives
>   Label conditional: changes to cope with new release of extract package
>   Label commercial: mention the self-help group for users of Y&Y TeX
>   Label drawing: describe pgf
>   Label dtx: describe makedtx
>   Label findfiles: rewritten, striving for clarity
>   Label ftncapt: rewritten in an attempt at greater clarity
>   Label RCS: extend to cover subversion (packages svn and svninfo)
>   Label spell: slightly restructured for CTAN changes
>   Label tabcellalign: ghastly error corrected
>
> New or revised packages (or just ones never before mentioned):
>   breakurl (mentioned in label breaklinks)
>   c2latex (mentioned in label codelist)
>   checkend (mentioned in label endingroup)
>   makedtx (mentioned in label dtx)
>   pgf (mentioned in label drawing)
>   pseudocode (mentioned in label algorithms)
>   splitbib (mentioned in label multbib)
>   suffix (mentioned in label cmdstar)
>   svn (mentioned in label RCS)
>   svninfo (mentioned in label RCS)
>   tgrind (mentioned in label codelist)
>
> Presentation:
>   The subsection "LaTeX macros" has been split into two: "LaTeX macro
>   tools" (generally stuff for programmers) and "LaTeX macro
>   techniques" (generally stuff for users who just want a simple job
>   done).
>
>   "zip" and "tar.gz" retrieval have been switched in HTML generation;
>   since many directories have pre-created zip archives, this reduces
>   the danger of hitting the "retrieving unknown file" effect in some
>   browsers.
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