Well, 6 weeks since the last beta does not mean that things are stable / finnished already... But, knowing that I won't have much time during the next two weeks, I thought that I'd better prepare a new beta now. Progress has been made in several areas. One significant change is that the printability of characters no longer depends on the locale settings. Files (to appear soon): ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/tetex-src-beta-2.96.4.20040627.tar.gz ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/tetex-texmf-beta-2.96.4.20040627.tar.gz ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/tetex-texmfsrc-beta-2.96.4.20040627.tar.gz or ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/tetex-src-beta-2.96.4.20040627.tar.gz ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/tetex-texmf-beta-2.96.4.20040627.tar.gz ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/tetex-texmfsrc-beta-2.96.4.20040627.tar.gz Changes in the src area: * xdvik 22.84.1 * kpathsea/c-memstr.h: portability fixes (strings.h, index(), rindex()) * Aleph RC3 * more web2c fixes to support spaces in filenames * fix to texinfo from karl (fix potential core dumps in info/session.c) * update texinfo.tex * improve temp file handling in allcm * pdftex 1.20a-rc4 * update to libxpdf-3.0 * thumbpdf is now a link to texexec as well; thumbpdf.pl exists now in the texmf tree * upgrade dvipng to version 1.1 * update zlib to version 1.2.1 * fix from Olaf about undump of mpost / mf * upgrade to texi2html-1.70 * added a2ping (GPL, from CTAN:graphics/a2ping) * epstopdf is GPL; add notice about it to the script * web2c changes by Olaf: - makempx now parses %& in temp. tex file - pdf*tex help strings - remove the locale-dependent code - add 'ctie' by Julian Gilbey - rename readlink to kpsereadlink * update dvips.1 / dvips.texi * add uninstall target to dialog * texdoctk-052 * dvips fixes by rokicki: Updated the man page and texinfo file for -x and -y options; removed the 500 rounding factor from the magnification override calculation (-y); someone changed ints to floats without taking this into account. * apply fix by Olaf Weber for segfault in mpost * remove fontimport / fontexport (until someone complains) * add incompatibility with (unpatched) flex-2.5.31 to PROBLEMS file and mention the existing fix * fixes in t1lib.ac for --with-system-t1lib * dvipdft rewritten, dvipdft.1 and ebb.1 added * updmap now searches each map file twice: old and new path; user gets a message if something is not as it should be -- manpage needs updating * add work-around for compile-problems on Irix 6.5.22m to PROBLEMS file * fix typo in install-etex-programs rule (actually, does not change anything, since we don't build etex by default; we use pdfetex instaed) * work-around missing symlinks: ofm2opl opl2ofm ovf2ovp ovp2ovf * increase max_names / max_refs in weave.ch * update config.guess config.sub from http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config Changes in the texmf area: * update pict2e, fontname, texinfo.tex, pstricks, babel, multirow, tocloft * add package appendix * update tds.dvi (version 1.1) * fontname update: variant.map (updated), qx.enc (added) * added memoir * update koma-script * update lettrine * update acronym, ntgclass * update pstricks, ukrhyph * add abstract * update uni2greek.otp (from TL), fancybox, geometry, showlabels * update germbib, oberdiek * added accents.sty, checkend.sty and dotlessi.sty (all lppl) from CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/bezos * update acronym package * add package xcolor * update lh fonts (to version 3.4i) * update t-amsl.tex, t-nath.tex * remove obsolete files: a4dutch.sty avantgar.sty doublespace.sty helvetic.sty isolatin1.sty landscape.sty ncntrsbk.sty sz.sty zapfchan.sty * consistently use tex/// and doc///; no longer use "misc" and "styles" * add a few files to the documentation of subfig / subfigure * rm doc/latex/styles/a4.dvi doc/latex/styles/slashbox.tex * update caption * added bibunits, multibib * update eplain to version 2.8.2 * update multirow.sty * updated newhelpindex.html (a few changes) Happy testing + have fun! Thomas