Talks from 2012 TUG conference (March 19, 2013)
Frank's paper on "E-TeX: Guidelines for Future TeX Extensions --- revisited" from the 2012 TUG in Boston is going to be published in the next TUGboat. The pdf version of the paper has been now added to the site.
Talks from 2012 TUG conference (August 16, 2012)
We added some material from the 2012 TUG in Boston to the site. So far it is a recording of the talk given by Frank and the slides from the presentation by Will and Frank on LaTeX3. We are still working on the papers for Tugboat; they will be added later.
Babel actively maintained again (August 05, 2012)
Babel gets back on track and it is again actively maintained (principal maintainer Javier Bezos). The goals are mainly to fix bugs, to make it compatible with XeTeX and LuaTeX (as far as possible), and perhaps to add some minor new features (provided they are backward compatible). Information on current activities can be found at: Babel news
Eighth issue of LaTeX3 news released (July 29, 2012)
Issue number eight of the LaTeX3 news brings advanced floating point improvements, regular expression support, and a new mechanism to designate internal code functions.
Seventh issue of LaTeX3 news released (February 26, 2012)
We have reached issue number seven in LaTeX3 news. The coverage of the LaTeX3 code is becoming more comprehensive, and its high-level concepts are slowly maturing.
TUGboat paper on LPPL history (October 14, 2011)
This paper reflects on the history and development of the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL) from its first introduction in the late 90's to its OSI certification in 2010. The paper was first published in the aniversary TUGboat issue No.100 and is now also available from this web site.
Sixth issue of LaTeX3 news released (August 09, 2011)
Catch the latest issue on the LaTeX3 news page in which we introduce a new team member, a re-organisation of the LaTeX3 code, and a few other things.
Fifth issue of LaTeX3 news released (January 28, 2011)
Catch the latest issue on the LaTeX3 news page where we recap notable TeX happenings last year and discuss our current and future plans for LaTeX3.
Fourth issue of LaTeX3 news released (August 25, 2010)
In late June, the TUG 2010 conference was held in San Francisco to great success. Most of the LaTeX3 project team were able to attend, and for Will it was the first time to meet members of the TeX community face-to-face.
Extra travel plans after the conference meant this news issue has been slightly delayed, but it's now here. For full details on our progress this year see the LaTeX3 news page.
Third issue of LaTeX3 news released (January 10, 2010)
We have been working on two of the xpackages: xparse has been re-written and extended, and xtemplate is a new package with a new interface based on the older template package. For full details and plans for the next six months, see the LaTeX3 news page.
New LaTeX released in September 2009 (October 15, 2009)
A new version of LaTeX was placed on CTAN a fortnight ago; it will be included in the upcoming TeX Live 2009. This version of LaTeX is a maintenance release only, but marks the first new version since the publication of The LaTeX Companion, 2nd Ed. In case you missed it earlier, the LaTeX source files are now publicly available and this is also the first release from this new location. More information can be found in LaTeX News issue 19.TUG 2009 presentations and a TUGboat publication (August 10, 2009)
The TUG 2009 conference has recently concluded and the presentations have been graciously published online at River Valley TV. Links to talks given by LaTeX project members Chris Rowley and Morten Høgholm are listed on the LaTeX3 ‘ongoing work’ page.
In related news, Joseph Wright's paper ‘LaTeX3 programming: External perspectives’ has just been published in TUGboat. It is also listed on the linked page above.
Second issue of LaTeX3 news released (June 10, 2009)
The last six months have seen some significant developments on the expl3 codebase, and the test suite completed. For full details and plans for the next six months, see the LaTeX3 news page.
First issue of LaTeX3 news released (February 10, 2009)
As work progresses on the LaTeX3 codebase, we plan on making twice-yearly status updates covering the work we've done and the work we're doing. Catch the first issue on the LaTeX3 news page.
LaTeX2e Public Source Repository announced (January 25, 2009)
The LaTeX3 Project Team is pleased to announce the availability of the complete Standard LaTeX sources in a 'version control repository' similar to the one we have ourselves been using for some time. Until now, Standard LaTeX (previously known as LaTeX2e) has been released as period snapshots. This has had the effect of delaying the roll-out of small bug fixes.
No changes are being made to the way the LaTeX is distributed, so it will still reach the vast majority of users in exactly the same way they have been receiving it for years, e.g., via TeXLive or MiKTeX.
The addition of this public repository will allow users to track progress of the LaTeX codebase, and install fixes to critical files without waiting for the next major release of the software.
The Subversion repository is located here: http://www.latex-project.org/svnroot/latex2e-public/.
You may check out a working copy of the code with the Subversion front-end of your choice or the command line statements:
mkdir latex2e-svn svn co http://www.latex-project.org/svnroot/latex2e-public/ latex2e-svn
The repository also contains the extensive test suite used to check
changes to the codebase for regressions to known behaviour. The test
suite was first introduced in TUGboat 18(4), 1997:
http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb18-4/tb57mitt.pdf
This is the first time it has been publicly available; some work still
needs to be done to organise it into a public build script.
While we have your attention, don't forget to take a look at the
experimental code that we've been building as part of the LaTeX3
project:
http://www.latex-project.org/svnroot/experimental/
The expl3 macro programming suite has reached a state ready for public
use and has now been included in TeX Live 2008. LaTeX2e package writers
are highly encouraged to investigate the new syntax and the broad
functionality that this bundle provides.
«The LaTeX graphics companion, 2nd edition» announced (July 14, 2007)
The second edition of «The LaTeX graphics companion» is ready for print. It has been announced by Addison-Wesley to be published on July 27. Excerpts from the book as well as errata with information on the bug contest are available from this site.
New versions of LaTeX2e and the LPPL (May 22, 2006)
The December 2005 release of LaTeX2e has been out for a while now. You can get current LaTeX from CTAN, as usual. Changes from the previous version include updates of required packages, starting the use of eTeX extensions, and the addition of a font encoding guide. See issue 17 of the LaTeX news for details.
Also, some changes have been to the LaTeX project public license. The license is now at version 1.3c.
New LaTeX release (April 27, 2006)
Keeping to our normal non-hasty schedules, the production release for 2005/12/01 is now available on CTAN (after it got somewhat stale during lengthy beta testing).
As usual, information regarding release details can be found in ltnews17 and the file changes.txt (containing some technical change info in reverse chronological order).
Current LPPL available in LaTeX mark-up (January 13, 2006)
The LaTeX project public license, version 1.3b, has been released. It clarifies the issue of derived works intended as a replacement of the original. There's a LaTeX marked-up version available, which authors of LPPL software are encouraged to include in their manuals. A PDF file of the license is also provided.
Translations of «The LaTeX companion» released (November 19, 2005)
The LaTeX companion has recently been translated into French and German. The books page has been updated to list these books, provide sample chapters and errata and announce a bug contest for the German translation.
LaTeX3 development code available through the web (February 22, 2005)
A page dedicated to the development code of LaTeX3 has been added. It has pointers to the web interface to the SVN repository and the packages of the experimental LaTeX3 code.
Section on documentation reorganized (October 20, 2004)
The site's section on LaTeX documentation has been reorganized somewhat: the list of books has been moved to its own page, and the documentation stuff that used to be on the introduction page has been moved to where it belongs. Moreover, a new (French) book has been listed: Fontes et codages by Yannis Haralambous.
Minor changes to LPPL (October 11, 2004)
The LaTeX project public license, version 1.3a, has been released. It includes a correction in the warranty section (the phrase «unless required by applicable law» got lost at some point) and clarification on the difference between «maintained» and «author-maintained».
Contributed documentation (October 08, 2004)
A section on contributed documentation has been started in the documentation area. The first pointer it contains is to Andrew Roberts' collection of LaTeX tutorials.
Historic LaTeX (June 15, 2004)
A link to historic LaTeX versions collected by Ulrik Vieth has been added.
To err is human – TLC2 bug contest (May 14, 2004)
Addison-Wesley and the authors of TLC2 provide a number of prizes for people finding errors in the book. For details see the errata file.
TLC2 appeared, more extracts available (May 05, 2004)
Now that The LaTeX Companion, 2nd edition, has appeared, new extracts from the book are available from this site. In addition to a new version of the PDF file containing the toc, the tables of figures and tables as well as the book's preface, there is now chapter 3 and the bibliography and index available.
TLC2 table of contents available (March 22, 2004)
The table of contents of The LaTeX Companion, 2nd edition, is now available from this site. There is a PDF file containing the toc, the tables of figures and tables as well as the book's preface.
New LaTeX release (March 13, 2004)
Who remembers December 23, 1993, when the first public release of LaTeX2e appeared?
The LaTeX3 Project Team wishes to announce the LaTeX 10th Anniversary Release, officially dated December 2003.
It contains numerous changes, additions and improvements – see the news sheets ltnews15 and ltnews16.
As usual, the files can be downloaded from a CTAN mirror near you. This site has an explanation on how to get LaTeX.
LPPL now DFSG free (March 08, 2004)
Version 1.3 of the LaTeX project public license has been released. It is now considered a Free Software license by the terms of the Debian Free Software guidelines.
Web site revised (March 08, 2004)
The LaTeX project's web site has undergone a face lift. Beside the new look, the directory structure has changed somewhat and a search facility has been added. More changes are in the works. Please send feedback on the web site to the web site team.