New on CTAN: latex-base-dev + latex-doc-dev + latex-graphics-dev

The LaTeX Team submitted the latex-base-dev and latex-doc-dev and latex-graphics-dev bundles. Version: 2019-10-01 pre-release 2 License: lppl1.3c Summary description: Development pre-release of the LaTeX kernel Announcement text:

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LaTeX kernel 2019-10-01 prerelease 2; changes compared to release standard LaTeX: 2019-07-11 Frank Mittelbach <Frank.Mittelbach at latex-project.org> * utf8ienc.dtx (subsection{The mapping table}): Accept typical f-ligatures and st in utf8 encoding (github/154) 2019-07-09 Frank Mittelbach <Frank.Mittelbach at latex-project.org> * utf8ienc.dtx (subsection{Housekeeping}): Temp rollback fix for e-pTeX as that engines doesn't yet know \ifincsname (so now features are unavailable there) * ltfssbas.dtx (subsection{Macros for loading fonts}): Don't set any \f at ... macros in \DeclareErrorFont as this side effect is wrong! (pr/4399) * ltfssini.dtx (subsection{Miscellaneous}): Explicitly set some defaults for NFSS (because of change to \DeclareErrorFont) * slifonts.fdd: Explicitly set some defaults for NFSS (because of change to \DeclareErrorFont) 2019-07-01 Frank Mittelbach <Frank.Mittelbach at latex-project.org> * ltfiles.dtx (section{File Handling}): Support UTF-8 in \includeonly (subsection{Safe Input Macros}): Support UTF-8 and spaces in \IfFileExists and \InputIfFileExists * ltclass.dtx (subsection{Providing shipment}): Support UTF-8 and spaces in filecontents environment file name. 2019-04-09 Frank Mittelbach <Frank.Mittelbach at latex-project.org> * utf8ienc.dtx: adjustment for extended UTF-8 support in pdftex, supporting UTF-8 in labels and refs and in filenames and typeouts. * ltfinal.dtx: adjustment for extened UTF-8 support in pdftex 2019-03-06 Frank Mittelbach <Frank.Mittelbach at latex-project.org> * nfssfont.dtx (section{The code}): Added a default action "\table\bye" which is the most common case, so one can now simply hit enter and doesn't need to type something in. 2019-02-07 Frank Mittelbach <Frank.Mittelbach at latex-project.org> * utf8ienc.dtx (subsection{The mapping table}): Added 27E8 and 27E9 (github/110) 2019-02-07 Frank Mittelbach <Frank.Mittelbach at latex-project.org> * ltfssbas.dtx (subsection{Macros for loading fonts}): Changed wording of warning (github/107) 2019-02-07 Frank Mittelbach <Frank.Mittelbach at latex-project.org> * ltfiles.dtx (subsection{Safe Input Macros}): Expand \@filef at und before executing second argument (github/109) 2019-02-06 Frank Mittelbach <Frank.Mittelbach at latex-project.org> * utf8ienc.dtx (subsection{The mapping table}): Fixed U+012F which should have an i not a dotless i (github/122) 2018-12-30 Frank Mittelbach <Frank.Mittelbach at latex-project.org> * lttab.dtx (subsection{array and tabular environments}): Add extra \hskip1sp to guard against an \unskip at the start of a c-column cell (gh/102)

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The packages’ Catalogue entries can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/latex-base-dev https://ctan.org/pkg/latex-doc-dev https://ctan.org/pkg/latex-graphics-dev The packages’ files themselves can be inspected at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex-dev/base/ http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex-dev/doc/ http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex-dev/required/graphics/

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Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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