[Texmacs-dev] TeX 2002 (Knuth) (fwd)

[Joris van der Hoeven]

Bad news ; I hope that Thomas Esser will keep the old versions...

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Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 19:34:44 +0100
From: Thomas Esser <address@hidden>
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Subject: TeX 2002 (Knuth)

Hi,

Knuth's latest stuff has a very interesting change. If you are interested
in the new material, look at

  http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/tex02-beta.tgz
  http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news03.html

The interesting ChangeLog note is:
     PLAIN.TEX, HYPHEN.TEX, PLAIN.MF
       (only the uncopyright notice has changed)

In fact, the DIFF02 file shows the following changes (the words are
almost what Karl has suggested on the address@hidden list):

*** tex98/dist/lib/hyphen.tex   Thu Jul 12 23:19:33 1984
--- tex02/dist/lib/hyphen.tex   Thu Dec 19 11:49:20 2002
***************
*** 1,4 ****
--- 1,7 ----
  % The Plain TeX hyphenation tables [NOT TO BE CHANGED IN ANY WAY!]
+ % Unlimited copying and redistribution of this file are permitted as long
+ % as this file is not modified. Modifications are permitted, but only if
+ % the resulting file is not named hyphen.tex.
  \patterns{ % just type <return> if you're not using INITEX
  .ach4
  .ad4der


*** tex98/dist/lib/plain.mf     Wed Aug  5 23:06:26 1998
--- tex02/dist/lib/plain.mf     Thu Dec 19 11:50:46 2002
***************
*** 1,6 ****
  % This is the plain METAFONT base that's described in The METAFONTbook.
  % N.B.: Please change "base_version" whenever this file is modified!
! % And don't modify the file under any circumstances.
  string base_name, base_version; base_name="plain"; base_version="2.71";
  
  message "Preloading the plain base, version "&base_version&": preliminaries,";
--- 1,12 ----
  % This is the plain METAFONT base that's described in The METAFONTbook.
  % N.B.: Please change "base_version" whenever this file is modified!
! % And don't modify the file unless you change its name:
! %       Everybody's "plain.mf" file should be the same, worldwide.
! 
! % Unlimited copying and redistribution of this file are permitted as long
! % as this file is not modified. Modifications are permitted, but only if
! % the resulting file is not named plain.mf.
! 
  string base_name, base_version; base_name="plain"; base_version="2.71";
  
  message "Preloading the plain base, version "&base_version&": preliminaries,";

diff -c3 -r tex98/dist/lib/plain.tex tex02/dist/lib/plain.tex
*** tex98/dist/lib/plain.tex    Tue Aug 11 13:31:56 1998
--- tex02/dist/lib/plain.tex    Thu Dec 19 11:49:32 2002
***************
*** 1,7 ****
  % This is the plain TeX format that's described in The TeXbook.
  % N.B.: A version number is defined at the very end of this file;
  %       please change that number whenever the file is modified!
! % And don't modify the file under any circumstances.
  
  \catcode`\{=1 % left brace is begin-group character
  \catcode`\}=2 % right brace is end-group character
--- 1,12 ----
  % This is the plain TeX format that's described in The TeXbook.
  % N.B.: A version number is defined at the very end of this file;
  %       please change that number whenever the file is modified!
! % And don't modify the file unless you change its name:
! %       Everybody's "plain.tex" file should be the same, worldwide.
! 
! % Unlimited copying and redistribution of this file are permitted as long
! % as this file is not modified. Modifications are permitted, but only if
! % the resulting file is not named plain.tex.
  
  \catcode`\{=1 % left brace is begin-group character
  \catcode`\}=2 % right brace is end-group character

Thomas