VTeX/Free -- list of changes ============================ VTeX/Free 8.44.2 as of 2005-02-11 --------------------------------- The incorrect archive file vtex-cbfonts.zip was fixed. The new version is: 8828226 Feb 11 12:08 vtex-cbfonts.zip In case you have already installed VTeX 8.44.2 using the old, incorrect archive file, you will find a number of subdirectories in the VTeX root directory, which should not have been created. To remove this mess and make the CB fonts work as expected, proceed as follows: OS/2: The follwoing directories were wrongly created in the root directory of the volume (drive) where you have installed VTeX: fonts\tfm fonts\type1 vtex\config tex (empty dir.) Please, delete these directories including all of their contents. (Make sure to remove only \vtex\config, rather than all of \vtex!) Download the fixed version of vtex-cbfonts.zip and unpack it in the root directory of the volume (drive) where you have installed VTeX. Linux: The following subdirectories were wrongly created in /usr/local/vtex: fonts/tfm fonts/type1 vtex tex (empty dir.) Please, delete these directories including all of their contents. Download the fixed version of vtex-cbfonts.zip and unpack it in /usr/local/vtex. VTeX/Free 8.44.2 (2005-02-08) ----------------------------- * compiler v8.44a (OS/2) and v8.46a (Linux) * The shell scripts to execute VTeX do no longer force all fonts to be processed through GeX, i.e., the option -ox2p has been changed to -ox2 * UTF-8 input fixed * By default, the macro packages of the AMS-Fonts collection access a number of fonts which do not exist in Type1 format. To circumvent this problem, VTeX/Free until version 8.44 came with patched font definition files, which did not use the missing fonts. For the sake of compatibility with other TeX distributions, these patches have been abandoned with v8.44a. Instead, the missing fonts are faked internally. (This is the same solution as applied, for instance, in the TeXLive system.) As an unfortunate side-effect, however, the packages amsonts, amssymb, eucal and eufrak must be loaded with the option [psamsfonts] now, if you need to make sure that the AMS and Euler fonts can be scaled to arbitrary sizes. * Latest versions of (hopefully) all hyphenation patterns, macro packages and fonts. Notice particularly PSNFSS 9.2 (including Palatino smallcaps and oldstyle figures), Ibycus 4.5, Fourier 1.4 and the 2004 edition of PS-Tricks. * New: Greek CM fonts (aka CB fonts), Ibycus-Babel interface, chess.sty, etex.sty VTeX/Free 8.44/8.46 (2004-07-02) -------------------------------- * improved installation instructions for VTeX/Linux, file readme-linux.eng (thanks to Wolfgang Riedel) VTeX/Free 8.44/8.46 ------------------- * VTeX compiler v 8.44 (OS/2), 8.46 (Linux), providing various bug fixes and basic MM font support * Latest LaTeX2e as of March 2004 * Additional LaTeX packages: KOMA-Script collection; mathdots.sty, upquote.sty, eso-pic.sty, relsize.sty, everysel.sty, everyshi.sty multitoc.sty, ragged2e.sty, pict2e.sty * Additional hyphenation patterns: basque, catalan, hungarian, irish, latin * Additional fonts: Fourier ("Utopia Math"); CJHebrew fonts and package; ES-Int font and package * Additional distribution file vtex-koma-zip; distribution file vtex-texmf.zip has been split into vtex-texmf.zip and vtex.texmf2.zip. * VTeX/Free is distributed immediately from CTAN now. Do NOT attempt to download from ftp.uni-erlagen.de any more! VTeX/free 8.23c --------------- VTeX compiler v8.23c: * eTeX extensions * PDF graphics inclusion * improved handling of EPS graphics, particularly from Win drivers * fixed GeX plugins Solaris port has been given up. LaTeX: * new package manfnt.sty * fixed pstricks.con to avoid clash with fancybox package * Euler-VM 3.0 * hyperref 6.74h * PSNFSS 9.0c * updated seminar.con and prosper.cls to match the /Win distrib * ArabTeX 3.10h Fonts: * improved URW NimbusSans with fixed \ss * fixed bug re. Times Bold Italic font not loading under certain circumstances, because TFM for raw (not reencoded) font was missing. PS-Tricks: * fixed pst-dots.pro to avoid problem with Reader Ibycus4: * bold Greek font added; * improved (experimental) version of the macro packages; Hyphenation patterns: * latest Spanish patterns eshyph.tex 4.0a * support for Catalan removed Documentation: * improved VTeX Manual, which describes also the setup of the VTeX/Free distribution * eTeX manual VTeX/Lnx 8.02, VTeX/2 8.11 as of 2003-03-12 ------------------------------------------- VTeX Compiler version 8.02 for Linux, v8.11 for OS/2: * many bugs and deficiencies fixed * supports the latest hyperref * can read gzip-compressed EPS images * all bitmap image formats are now supported on both platforms * space optimization * precompiled font map files (optional) Solaris port is not yet available. The file system has been rearranged to comply with TDS 1.0: * font mapping files reside in texmf/fonts/map/vtex * encoding vectors reside in texmf/fonts/enc/dvips Documentation: * the setup of the /Free distrib is now described in the VTeX manual texmfdoc/vtex/vtex.pdf; * more ready made docs for AMS-LaTeX, see temf/doc/latex/amscls/ and ../amsmath LaTeX: * latest versions of all packages * new packages: gensymb, mparhack, esvect, dsfont, framed * \aliasfont commands moved from preload.cfg to latex.fid; preload.cfg is no longer required (but still provided as a dummy file) Ibycus4: * some VTeX-specific changes, see the file texmf/doc/generic/ibycus4/README.vtex Hyphenation patterns: * latest Russian patterns as of 2002-02-13 Fonts: * URW base fonts are now shipped with VTeX * new fonts : esvect (for esvect.sty), Doublestroke, Context Navigation Symbols (contnav.tfm), Adobe Chess * TIPA fonts updated to version 1.1 No longer included: * Virtual AE fonts and related macro package: Due to the availability of EC fonts in Type1 format, they are generally considered as obsolete now. * KOMA-script: It seems -- unfortunately -- to have become somewhat unstable. Furthermore, the KOMA collection must not be distributed without the documentation in DVI format. Distributing the KOMA manuals only in PDF format is not allowed. I had a long debate with Markus about this issue, but I could not convince him that DVI makes no sense with VTeX. I'm not willing to give in and distribute more than 3 MB of useless files. * mathcomp.sty: please, use gensymb.sty instead VTeX/Free 7.530 as of 2002-03-25 -------------------------------- Updated archive file common/vtex-fonts2.zip (fixed EC fonts). The version number of the distribution is unchanged. To update the fonts on Linux, unzip the archive in the directory /usr/local/vtex. On OS/2, unzip the archive in the root directory of the drive, where you have installed VTeX/2. VTeX/Free 7.530 (2002-01-27) ---------------------------- VTeX compiler version 7.53: * Fixed problem with PostScript mode (unwanted garbage at end of page); * inclusion of .avi movies in PDF mode is now supported; * improved GeX font handling; * fixed bug with line drawing & rotation; * GeX memory can be customized. New LaTeX packages: * KOMA-script bundle; * Arabtex bundle and related Type 1 fonts for typesetting Arab and Hebrew. Updated macros * soul 2.0 * pdfcrypt 0.6, * hyperref 6.72b New fonts * EC/TC fonts in Type1 format * cmr and cmss TIPA fonts in Type1 format Hyphenation patterns * Updated hyphenation patterns sihyph23 for Slovene; * frhyph version 2.11 (French); * ithyph 4.8d (Italian) * patterns for Ukrainian added. Miscellaneous * LaTeX format file will now check \stockheight and \stockwidth, too, in order to determine media size; this complies with hyperref 6.72b; * fixed font map file misc.ali to make BrushScript font working; * fixed typos in font map file pdfbase.ali; * new version of fxeff plugin, which will (hopefully) no longer cause problems due to potential library mismatch; this affects Linux only. Installation * Improved REXX scripts makevlatex and makeplain, see the comments in the files; this affects OS/2 only; Documentation * More ready-made PSTricks documentation VTeX/Free 7.461 (2001-10-29) ---------------------------- * VTeX compiler version 7.46a; fixed handling of EPS files which make strange assmuptions about the current clippath. * fixed vtexps.pro: \includegraphics clip option would fail in PostScript mide without GeX VTeX/Free 7.460 (2001-10-22) ---------------------------- * VTeX compiler version 7.46. Many fixes, particularly wrt/ handling of PostScript images; increased stack size * Linux: main configuration file resides in the /etc directory now and is named "vtex.ini", as on OS/2. * Linux: No more need to specify the full path, when executing VTeX, Bibtex or Makeindex. * OS/2: VTeX/2 comes with an installation program now. * GeX is now enabled in the shell scripts vlatexp and vplainp (PostScript mode) * fixed vlatexp shell script to set the default BoundingBox to A4 * Additional fonts and related macro packages: Ibycus 4, TIPA, Euler-VM math fonts, St-Mary-Road math symbols, BrushScriptX * Additional LaTeX macro packages: fixmath.sty, upgreek.sty, icomma.sty, ifvtex.sty, ifpdf.sty, pdfcrypt.sty, float.sty * LaTeX (incl. tools, graphics and Cyrillic bundles) as of "June 2001", hyperref 6.71q, minor fixes to Babel * Updated macro packages: url.sty 1.5, draftcopy 2.15, changebar 3.4d, pdfscreen with minor fixes (will no longer mess up the desktop), foilTeX v2.1.3.c (fixed landscape foils in PostScript mode), mflogo 2.0 * PSTricks: latest version as on CTAN; full documentation is now supplied; pst-fill module fixed wrt/ VTeX * Prosper: improved prosper.cls (AVK, 2001-10-15) to fully support VTeX PDF/PS modes * FX Plugin and related macro package for font effects * New Russian hyphenation patterns as of August 7, 2001. We load the Russian-only patterns now, as opposed to the Russian-English ones; this seems to be more appropriate with Babel. Code templates to select the font encoding for Russian (default: T2A) are now part of hyphen.cfg. * patched .fd files for OT2/cmr so as to use the wncyr fonts. Rationale: OT2/cmr fonts are not supplied with VTeX/Free; actually, they do not exist in Type1 format. NB: using wncyr for OT2/cmr was LaTeX's default behavior, before the Cyrillic bundle was introduced. * Many more .enc files; texnansi.enc renamed to ly1.enc. * New shell scripts `makevlatex' and `makevplain' to create the LaTeX and plain formats, using new wrapper files texmf/vtex/config/latex.fid and ./plain.fid. * Changed preload.cfg: We read the default preload.ltx, instead of keeping a copy of its code in our file. Thus, we won't lose any future changes to preload.ltx. * \aliasfont commands for the XYpic fonts were moved from preload.cfg to xypic.sty, so that they are executed on demand only (i.e., they are no longer part of the LaTeX format). NB: \aliasfont's are _not_ required, when XYpic is used with plain TeX. * Bibtex and Makeindex programs renamed (again) to "vbibtex" and "vmakeindex" with both OS/2 and Linux; large-capacity Bibtex (OS/2 only, for the time being) * Font tools: pl2tf, tf2pl, vp2vf, vf2vp. (Note the non-standard names, which will not clash with emTeX or teTeX.) VTeX/Free 7.33 (2001-06-21) --------------------------- * VTeX compiler v7.33d: PDF security options and xpdf source specials are supported now. Some minor bug fixes affect particularly the Linux port. Note that only the binaries archives, i.e. vtexlnx.zip and vtex2.zip have changed! VTeX/Free 7.32 (2001-06-10) --------------------------- * VTeX compiler v7.32: - CFF suppport leads to dramatically smaller PDF output. - Many fixes re. font handling and EPS inclusion. - PDF output will circumvent AR5 bugs. - PNG, PCX and TARGA bitmap formats are supported with OS/2 now. (However, no TIFF yet.) * Bibtex and Makeindex with recursive searching (OS/2 only, for the time being). * LaTeX2e as of June 2000, Babel 3.7, hyperref 6.71e, latest AMS-LaTeX, fancybox 1.3, PSNFSS 8.2 incl. mathpazo.sty (!) * Many interesting LaTeX packages, which were not available for VTeX so far: draftcopy, changebar, pdfscreen, psfig (for legacy documents), axodraw, Prosper. * dinbrief.cls (a goodie for our German customers, since letter.cls is of no practical use for them :-) * Further new LaTeX packages: fancyhdr, supertabular, mathcomp, lastpage, comment, truncate, * Certain files of the pstricks and psfrag bundles, which are required for use with dvips, are included now * Updated hyphenation patterns and improved pattern loading file: - New German patterns Rev.31. - French patterns v2.9. - Dutch patterns replaced by new `1996' version. - Danish, Spanish and Portuguese patterns replaced by the versions, which are `officially' recommended by the particular TeX user groups. * Seminar and Prosper are now distributed as a ZIP file of their own, which is independent from the rest of the distribution. * Rearranged font map files, see also the decription in the file texmf/doc/vtex/font-setup.txt: - euler,ali, hoekwater,ali, eurofont.ali, charter.ali and utopia,ali have been merged into one single file named misc.ali. - ifmath.ali tmmath.ali and hvmath.ali (excl. the records for the Times and Helvetica text fonts!) have been merged into one single file named micropress.ali. - The records for all Times and Helvetica text fonts have been moved into map files of their own. Several variants of these map files are provided, so that one can easily configure, whether these fonts are to be downloaded or not, and which version (URW, Adobe, MicroPress) to chose. * The MarVoSym symbol font and the related macro package marvosym.sty have been added. * Use of the LY1 font encoding is supported. * All of the AMS Cyrillic fonts in Type1 format are provided now. * Fixed Type1 fonts: cmbsy5, cmbsy7, cmmib5, cmmib7. * The Type1 fonts for XYpic have been added. * Metrics and macros for the Concrete fonts have been added. * fancybox.sty moved from the Seminar directory to tex/latex/misc * Improved LaTeX Local Guide * Installation instructions and LaTeX are no longer distributed in German, because maintaining two version requires too much work. (I'm sorry; after all, VTeX comes for free :-) * The on-line documentation for PSTricks and Seminar is no longer included, because it needs too much space and is outdated, anyway. The packages are described in the "LaTeX Graphics Companion", and the obsolete documentation can still be downloaded from CTAN. VTeX/Free v7.10F (2000-08-27) ----------------------------- * VTeX compiler v7.10F with bug fixes and enhanced hypertext facilities * Bibtex and Makeindex are included now * latest AMS-LaTeX (July 2000), hyperref (v6.70p1), geometry (v2.3 with VTeX support) * plain TeX 3.1415926 * color & graphics support (miniltx) for plain TeX * enhanced LaTeX Local Guide VTeX/Free v7.00 (2000-05-12) ---------------------------- * PostScript mode is officially supported now * many bug fixes, particularly wrt/ EPS inclusion, font handling and PostScript mode * inclusion of animated GIF's * memory for hyphenation patterns can grow dynamically now * new font setup, which is easier to configure and enables easy installation of additional fonts. Ghostscript and the related fonts are required now. * Latest LaTeX, Tools, Babel, hyperref etc. * PSNFSS 8.1 final release; all obliqued fonts are supported via \aliasfont now * new packages: FoilTeX 2.1.3b with "landscape" support for VTeX; soul.sty, geometry.sty * "Cyrillic" bundle and Russian hyphenation patterns added (however, no cyrillic fonts yet) * the Charter and Utopia Type1 fonts are included. * added hyphenation patterns for British English * added metrics and style file for the CM-Bright fonts * more LaTeX documentation incl. a preliminary "Local Guide" texmf/doc/vtex/local.eng & local.ger * VTeX documentation (vtex.pdf, gex.pdf, forms.pdf, animgif.pdf) is now installed in texmf/doc/vtex VTeX/Free v6.68 (1999-12-12) ---------------------------- * TeX compiler is much faster now, primarily due to directory caching. * GeX will support additional PS Level II features, e.g. LZW compression. * Support for PDF Page Labels has been added. * Long file name support (-8 option) is now the default behaviour with the OS/2 version. * The VTeX/Free system is now prepared for easy installation of various additional PostScript fonts. * Use of the XYpic package with VTeX/Free is now fully supported. * Use of the amsfonts and amssyb packages is now fully supported; missing AMS fonts are internally emulated; no more need to load the AMS styles with the [psamsfonts] option. * Bug fixes, affecting the VTeX program as well as the use of various packages with VTeX (seminar, XYpic, PSTricks) * Hyperref v6.67g * PSNFSS 8.1(b2) with minor fixes. -- finis