X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1567" "Fri" "29" "November" "1996" "10:35:14" "GMT" "David Carlisle" "carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk" nil "36" "LaTeX 1996/12/01 release: Important announcement" "^Date:" nil nil "11" nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA11898; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 11:41:58 +0100 (MET) Received: from listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <13.CA30FEB8@listserv.gmd.de>; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 11:41:57 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 285321 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 11:41:42 +0100 Received: from vummath.ma.man.ac.uk (vummath.ma.man.ac.uk [130.88.16.53]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.7.6/8.7.4) with SMTP id LAA05333; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 11:35:46 +0100 (MET) Received: by vummath.ma.man.ac.uk (SMI-8.6/SMI-4.1:AL2) id KAA05595; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 10:35:14 GMT Message-ID: <199611291035.KAA05595@vummath.ma.man.ac.uk> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 10:35:14 GMT From: David Carlisle Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: LaTeX 1996/12/01 release: Important announcement Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1775 LaTeX 1996/12/01 release: Important announcement ================================================ As you may know, a LaTeX release with a nominal date of 1996/12/01 is due for release shortly. This release will now be *delayed* until January 1997, to allow more time for testing the following proposed change. The LaTeX system currently uses some files with `mixed case' names. The `Font Descriptor' files such as T1cmr.fd and the `Output Encoding Definition' files such as T1enc.def These files cause problems on certain common systems. In particular, mixed-case filenames are not allowed in the ISO 9660 CDROM format and do not work correctly if a mono-case file system (such as MSDOS) is mounted onto a case sensitive UNIX file system. This latter example is very common in linux, where the MSDOS and UNIX file systems are often available within the same machine. In the forthcoming release, all these file names will be made lowercase. Thus the two files mentioned above will be named t1cmr.fd and t1enc.def. This change should not affect any LaTeX documents, as they do not refer to these files explicitly; however, it may affect some local configuration files, such as fonttext.cfg, which may be used when making the LaTeX format. Further documentation concerning any required changes will be distributed with the release. The LaTeX system will look for `fd' files first with the new lower case name, and then with the old mixed case name; thus existing collections of fd files should work unchanged with the new system. David Carlisle LaTeX3 project