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Date:         Fri, 14 Jan 1994 20:13:17 GMT
From: David Carlisle <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk>
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Subject:      Bugs in latex2e
Status: R

This list (and the latex-bugs mailbox) are getting several reports of
the same bugs in the current release of LaTeX2e.

While this is not such a bad thing (it is better a bug be reported
lots of times rather than not at all) we are currently trying to put
together a second  release that fixes many of these bugs. This release
will be available real soon (I would say next week, but I would not be
so bold as to make predictions on release dates:-)

The following is a list of some of the things fixed. It is not a full
list, and doesnt include various optimisations and improvements we
have made internally. However if one of these bugs bites you, you dont
need to let us know. Some of the items I have included a fix, This is
for your information, I am not suggesting that you should `patch' the
current release.


Thanks for your help in testing this (and sorry about the bugs:-)

David


Bugs that will be fixed `in the next release'
=============================================

1)
The installation guide install.l2e file has been rewritten. Amongst
other things we have indicated how to run both LaTeX209 and LaTeX2e on
the same machine. And documented that the .def files should be moved,
as well as the .sty and .cls files to a directory on the input path,

2)
In fontdef.dtx the old files nft1.def and nfot1.def are input instead
of t1.def and ot1.def.

3)
In docclass.dtx a typo will mean that the new command \@ifpackageloaded
will not work. Undefined command \@pkgetension should be \@pkgextension

4)
In Compatibility mode (ie documents starting with \documentstyle)
The option list is not correctly handled by certain non-standard
options. (it does work OK with article report etc)
\@obsoletefile in latex209.cmp should look like
\def\@obsoletefile#1#2{%
   \expandafter\let\csname opt@#1\expandafter\endcsname
      \csname opt@\@currname.\@currext\endcsname
   \wlog{Compatibility mode: inputting `#1'
      instead of obsolete `#2'.}%
}


5)
pandora.sty doesnt work as \NeedsTeXFormat has been mis-spelt as
\NeedsFormat

6)
some missing font definition (fd) files will be added.

7)
\label now works in \eqnarray

8)
\pounds is fixed

9)
float-in-list fixed
Brief description of bug:
LaTeX2e will not split a list environment around a figure which appears
before the list even though there is some room to do so (see demo file).
The old version of LaTeX splits the list.

10)
The new command \enlargethispage works. The bug is that the commands
\@gbsphack and \@gesphack (which are not defined) should be replaced by
\@bsphack and \@esphack