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This lists changes to the LaTeX2e files in reverse chronological order.

NOTE:  This file is based on the developers' personal change-log files
and is provided for convenience only.  It therefore makes no claims to
completeness or accuracy and it contains some references to files that
are not part of the distribution.

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Fri Dec 6 18:09:11 1996 David Carlisle (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* xspace.dtx: alltt support. tools/2322.

Thu Nov 21 19:38:28 1996 David Carlisle (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* longtable.dtx: new page break control.

Sat Nov 2 14:29:14 1996 David Carlisle (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* readme.txt: Add old docstrip note.

Fri Nov 1 19:19:14 1996 David Carlisle (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* showkeys.dtx: colour option.  tools/2297.

	* tools.ins: new style.

Thu Oct 24 16:46:30 1996 David Carlisle (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* xspace.dtx: Fix guards for driver document. tools/2206

Wed Sep 25 21:49:28 1996 Rainer Schoepf (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* verbatim.dtx (\verbatiminput): Added \@addtofilelist and
 	\ProvidesFile so that the name of the file read in appears in the
 	\listfiles output.

Mon Sep 23 18:05:16 1996 David Carlisle (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

* dcolumn.dtx: Fix case where no decimal point is used
        in the `new' case of a the third argument being n.m.
 
Fri Sep  6 15:24:17 1996  David Carlisle  <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk>
 
        * showkeys.dtx: more changes following from /2252.
 
Fri Aug 30 18:09:48 1996  David Carlisle  <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk>
 
        * showkeys.dtx: more fudges for AMS tools/2252, and extra
        group from Donald A. tools/2147
 
Wed Jul 10 11:15:30 1996  David Carlisle  <carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk>
 
        * showkeys.dtx: Missing percent added for tools/2215

Fri Jun 14 11:55:38 1996 David Carlisle (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* array.dtx: change \kern\z@ to \hskip1sp for latex/2160
	A few long lines wrapped.

Tue Jun 4 14:59:40 1996 Rainer Schoepf (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* verbatim.dtx: \verbatim@noligs@list now processed after
	\dospecials (PR 2138).

Sat May 25 17:39:54 1996 Frank Mittelbach (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* array.dtx (subsection{Support for 
          \texttt{\textbackslash firsthline} and ): 
	  Complete reimplementation after Mark Wooding pointed out that
	  they were everything else than correct --- hope i got it 
	  right this time :-)

Fri May 24 15:01:17 1996 David Carlisle (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* longtable.dtx: Add a warning to re run LaTeX \AtEndDocument if
	any longtable has failed to align on this run.

Fri May 17 16:00:03 1996 David Carlisle (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* xspace.dtx: Add / to list of punctuation characters.

	* showkeys.dtx: use \protected@edef rather than \def
	so that the expansion of any macros is printed. tools/2147

Tue May 7 10:41:36 1996 David Carlisle (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* longtable.dtx: add \hfil to match array package change.

	* array.dtx: add \hfil to \@endpbox for tools/2120 (and to match
	kernel version).

Mon Apr 22 12:32:44 1996 David Carlisle (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* array.dtx: Extra \kern\z@ for empty l colummns. latex/2122

Tue Apr 16 17:35:58 1996 David Carlisle (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* longtable.dtx: Version 4.02 using new algorithm of David Kastrup
	to align tables without \setlongtables command.

Wed Feb 28 17:40:26 1996 David Carlisle (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* dcolumn.dtx: New feature (tools/2093) D{.}{.}{3.2} specifies a
	column of figures that should be centred, assuming 3 places to
	the left of the decimal point and 2 to the right.

Thu Feb 1 16:14:44 1996 David Carlisle (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* longtable.dtx: allow \multicolumn and \hline to work inside
	tabulars inside longtables. tools/2068

Sat Jan 13 13:34:34 1996 Frank Mittelbach (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* multicol.dtx:
	Explain why with \OnlyDescription there will be an unresolved
	reference pr/2047.

Wed Jan 3 14:27:11 1996 David Carlisle (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* longtable.dtx: (Martin Schr"oder) remove ! which causes a
	makeindex error in \changes entry. tools/2035

Mon Jan 1 15:21:19 1996 Frank Mittelbach (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* ftnright.dtx:
	Finally got around to take out ltxdoc and use article for
        documentation. pr/536
	Also cleaned up use of ProvidesPackage.

Thu Dec 28 11:35:13 1995 Frank Mittelbach (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* array.dtx:
	Fixed section headings so that a toc is possible. pr/2033.

	* multicol.dtx:
	Fixed index entries. pr/2036

Tue Dec 12 11:57:47 1995 David Carlisle (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* tools.dst: Add trap for old docstrip.

Thu Nov 23 10:15:46 1995 David Carlisle (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* theorem.dtx: Fix \@newctr usage (Ulrik Vieth)

	* layout.dtx: Documentation fixes (J"org Knappen).

	* indentfirst.dtx: (Ulrik Vieth) Fix \GetFileInfo usage.
          In the documentation.

Wed Nov 22 11:48:14 1995 David Carlisle (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* tools.dst: New style concurrent generation.

	* showkeys.dtx: Fix \harvarditem: add SK code after the implicit
	  \item (as for \cite) not before.

Sun Nov 19 11:55:37 1995 Frank Mittelbach (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* theorem.dtx:
	Ensure that there is an error message if one of the counters
	in newtheorem are undefined pr/1861.

	* array.dtx (subsection{Getting the spacing around rules right}):
	ensure that the space between \hline\hline is visually \doublerulesep
	and does not depend of the rulewidth (as it does with standard latex)
	pr/1945
	Added some documentation about rule handling concepts.

Thu Nov 9 17:00:48 1995 David Carlisle (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* longtable.dtx: (Anil K Goel) Really measure the size of the
	  first row of the table not `assume' the size from the array
	  strut. (Avoids really bad first page break with two headings)

	* showkeys.dtx: Take more care over redefining \protect commands

Thu Nov 2 17:13:40 1995 David Carlisle (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* array.dtx: Minor doc changes, no more ooverfull hboxes...

Mon Oct 30 15:41:58 1995 David Carlisle (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* showkeys.dtx: Fix for tools/1744 (notref/varioref case)
          Add final and draft options
          Fix inner vmode case which could cause extra white space
          to be added.

Mon Oct 30 01:15:44 1995 Johannes Braams (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* layout.dtx : Added command \layout* which recomputes the values
	it needs before making the picture of the layout. (PR 1465)

Sun Oct 29 00:56:25 1995 Johannes Braams (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* layout.dtx (section{The implementation}): Added the options
	spanish, braziolian and portugues, as provided by 
	Ausberto S. Castro V. <ascv@inf.ufrgs.br> (PR 1837)

Fri Oct 27 16:38:00 1995 David Carlisle (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* afterpage.dtx: tools/1579/1880/1884

Thu Oct 19 13:38:29 1995 Frank Mittelbach (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* varioref.dtx:
	Added defaults for Italian pr/1888

	* multicol.dtx:
	Added \@largefloatcheck so that floats being too large
        will produce a warning.  pr/1890

Fri Sep 22 14:01:32 1995 Rainer Schoepf (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* verbatim.dtx: Corrected vertical spacing if verbatim is nested
 	in quote (and other) environment. This error was introduced with
	version v1.3c (1990/02/26). Clarified documentation on how to
	define new verbatim-like environments.

Sun Aug 6 17:17:16 1995 Frank Mittelbach (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* tools.dst: 
	Updated copying conditions so that it is allowed to distribute
	unpacked files together with the sources.

Fri Aug 4 13:29:07 1995 Frank Mittelbach (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* multicol.dtx:
	Changed class used for documentation from 
	article to ltxdoc. pr/1788

Sun Jun 25 22:09:52 1995 Johannes Braams (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* layout.dtx : The june 1995 release of LaTeX no longer needs two
	hash marks when defining a newcommand inside the argument of
	\DeclareOption.

Thu Jun 15 18:04:09 1995 David Carlisle (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* longtable.dtx: replace ## by # in \DeclareOption, latex/1557

Thu May 25 16:08:12 1995 David Carlisle (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* longtable.dtx: Modify Caption handling again.

Tue May 16 19:19:07 1995 Frank Mittelbach (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* varioref.dtx: 
	Updated \DeclareOption declarations to reflect ##1 -> #1 change. pr/1557

Sun May 7 21:31:08 1995 Frank Mittelbach (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* fontsmpl.dtx:
	Removed \pagestyle{empty} so that all pages produced by fontsmpl.tex
	are numbered. pr/1559

Wed May 03 19:58:00 1995 Rainer Schoepf (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* verbatim.dtx: Removed extra backslash in argument to \cs.

Tue May 2 15:34:02 1995 David Carlisle (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* longtable.dtx: Explitly reset page height for tools/1584.
        Modify caption handling.

Wed Apr 26 16:53:56 1995 Rainer Schoepf (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* verbatim.dtx: Removed \fileversion and \filedate.

Tue Apr 25 15:13:26 1995 David Carlisle (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* longtable.dtx: Modify brace hacks cf tools/1571
        Allow 1100 longtables in a single document---A bug reported on a
	`real document' by Mike Van Geest!

	* showkeys.dtx: Fix inner horz mode case.
        Add option handling: notref and notcite to stop the
        redefinitions of those commands.

Sun Apr 23 12:29:29 1995 Frank Mittelbach (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* array.dtx (section{The line separator \\}):
	Fixed a serious bug that was present right from the beginning:
        in some cases the last column of an array line could get an extra
	math ord messing up the spacing. pr/1571.
	(subsection{Bugs and Features}):
	Added comment about the fact that a column (execpt for the first) refers to
	the column specifier plus intercolumn material to the *right*.
	Therefore \multicolumn{2}{|c|} is normally incorrect. pr/1443

Sat Apr 8 00:03:02 1995 Johannes Braams (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* layout.dtx : Added the options 'integers' and 'reals'. The
	default is the option 'integers'; this results in the 'old'
	behaviour, where the values of parameters are presented
	truncated. Using the option 'reals' will switch to presenting the
	real val;ues of the parameters. This also affects the definition
	of \Show and \Type.

Thu Apr 6 21:39:25 1995 Frank Mittelbach (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* varioref.dtx (subsection{Options}):
	Added norsk and nynorsk strings.
	Modified Warning message about undefined Option texts.

Mon Apr 3 00:28:22 1995 Johannes Braams (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* layout.dtx : Simplified the definition of \Show and \Type, the
	effect is that now the complete value is shown (PR #1520)

Mon Mar 20 16:48:02 1995 David Carlisle (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* tabularx.dtx: Allow \tabularx to be used inside
          \newenvironment definitions

Fri Mar 17 17:06:48 1995 David Carlisle (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* showkeys.dtx: Fix for tools/1434  (showkeys affecting footnote
	  placement)

Thu Mar 16 19:12:09 1995 Frank Mittelbach (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* multicol.dtx:
	Fixed colour support (thanks to David)
	Clarified copyright notice.
	Updated driver file.

Thu Mar 16 18:22:17 1995 David Carlisle (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* showkeys.dtx: Fix for tools/1181 (Bad placement in with \item
	  and \bibitem) and tools/1496  (Working with new ams*)

Tue Mar 14 13:34:29 1995 Johannes Braams (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* layout.dtx : Added the options french and francais (thanks to
	Eric Picheral <Eric.Picheral@univ-rennes1.fr> who provided the
	translations); introduced \notshown

Tue Jan 10 20:27:34 1995 Frank Mittelbach (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* varioref.dtx:
	Added swedish strings.

Thu Dec 8 20:23:21 1994 David Carlisle (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* longtable.dtx: Add \tabularnewline.

	* array.dtx: Add \tabularnewline.

Tue Nov 22 18:43:31 1994 David Carlisle (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* tools.dst: Avoid generating error messages on `.tex'.

Tue Nov 15 15:40:41 1994 David Carlisle (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* xspace.dtx: Make robust, add !

Sat Oct 29 22:42:59 1994 Johannes Braams (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* layout.dtx : Some of the dutch words should really be one word
	instead of two (PR #1078)

Tue Oct 25 14:15:18 1994 Rainer Schoepf (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* verbatim.dtx: Changed code for handling verbatim as first thing
	after an \item command. (This change had already been done in the
	LaTeX2e kernel.)

	* verbatim.dtx: Removed extra \typeout lines.

Sat Oct 15 18:00:03 1994 Frank Mittelbach (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* array.dtx (subsection{Support for ...):
	Added \firsthline and \lasthline from Companion. 

Mon Oct 3 10:06:19 1994 Frank Mittelbach (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* multicol.dtx:
	Correct change from 26 of August. Leave old code only add the new
	one.

Tue Sep 27 20:36:13 1994 Frank Mittelbach (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* varioref.dtx:
	Added strings for breton language, this also means adding a new option.

Sun Sep 25 11:10:32 1994 Frank Mittelbach (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* varioref.dtx: 
	Added danish strings.

Fri Sep 23 09:19:37 1994 Frank Mittelbach (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* varioref.dtx (subsection{Options}):
	Added finnish strings.

Fri Sep 9 14:45:32 1994 David Carlisle (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* showkeys.dtx: add \citefullauthor for (forthcoming) natbib.

Thu Sep 8 02:22:12 1994 Johannes Braams (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* layout.dtx: Stored texts in control sequences to allow the use
of other languages. Added the options english (default) and dutch.

	* tools.dst: Added the layout package

Wed Sep 7 11:55:32 1994 David Carlisle (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* showkeys.dtx: Version 3, supports varioref ref styles, and
	  natbib and harvard citation styles.
	  Also modify `internal vertical mode' case, to cope with modified
	  \caption behaviour in the LaTeX2e classes.
	  Modify \GetFileInfo usage, as suggested by Patrick Daly.

Fri Aug 26 17:05:04 1994 Frank Mittelbach (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* multicol.dtx (subsection{The output routines}]):
 	Check explicitly for void boxes before assigning the current column
	   width to their width, because void boxes will not change.
	Extract the kept marks before adding a penalty -10000 to the output box
	  when balancing, otherwise no marks will be found. (This bug was
	  introduced recently.

Mon Aug 8 21:38:19 1994 Frank Mittelbach (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* tools.dst:
	Added a better informational message about the problems
	that can arise when LaTeX tries to generate the file `.tex'

Sun Jul 24 12:45:36 1994 Frank Mittelbach (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* varioref.dtx (subsection{Options}):
	Added dutch defaults as suggested by Frank Poppe.
	Explicitly expand label argument before passing it to \label, so that
	varioref will work with babel.
	Correct misspelling in spanish option.

Thu Jul 14 01:11:28 1994 Johannes Braams (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* layout.dtx: Moved the identification code to the front of the
	file.
	Needed to interchange to calls to \ttfamily and \footnotsize as
	\footnotesize calls \normalfont in compatibility mode.
	Added a check for negative arrowlength to \InsideHArrow

Thu Jun 30 12:47:09 1994 David Carlisle (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* longtable.dtx: Obey a \nofiles declaration. Remove special
	  handling of letter class, not needed for the latex2e version of
	  letter.

	* showkeys.dtx: Correct \ProvidesPackage usage (previously had two
	  \providesPackage commands),

Tue Jun 21 20:45:02 1994 Frank Mittelbach (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* varioref.dtx (subsection{Options}):
	Added french defaults as suggested by Daniel Flippo.

Mon Jun 20 23:24:41 1994 Frank Mittelbach (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* varioref.dtx:
	Correction was buggy, brace placed incorrectly.

Sat Jun 11 16:08:57 1994 Frank Mittelbach (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* varioref.dtx:
	\vpageref[above][one ]{one} didn't work because first
	optional argument wasn't passed (found by Patrick Daly).

Tue Jun 7 19:21:28 1994 Frank Mittelbach (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* multicol.dtx (section{New macros and hacks for version 1.2}]):
	Updated float commands to contain \color@endgroup etc. so
	that they work together with the color.sty package.
	(Found by SPQR)

Wed Jun 1 18:07:46 1994 David Carlisle (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* somedefs.dtx: Use new style error commands.

Wed Jun 1 00:14:02 1994 Frank Mittelbach (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* array.dtx:
	Added  \null to the end of \multicolumn. This fixes
	a bug that was long fixed in the original but never made it
	into array.sty.
	Use PackageError/Warning interface.

Sat May 28 12:25:05 1994 David Carlisle (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* manifest.txt: First draft.

	* readme.txt: First draft.
Sat May 28 11:23:41 1994 Frank Mittelbach (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* multicol.dtx:
	Do not alloc \col@number any longer.
	Use Standard Warning/info messages.

	* fileerr.dtx:
	Added file to the collection.

Fri May 27 22:37:38 1994 Frank Mittelbach (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* varioref.dtx:
	Warning about looping pages displayed in wrong order
	(found by Wolfgang Christen).
	(subsection{Defining the main macros}): 
	Added help message for loop error.
	Use PackageError rather than \errmessage.
	Use DeclareRobustCommand.
	Added \NeedTeXFormat.

Thu May 26 22:20:12 1994 Frank Mittelbach (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* multicol.dtx (subsection{Starting and ): 
	fixed bug with "premulticols" not being a register
	(tried to \the a string in tracing mode)

Wed May 18 21:39:51 1994 Frank Mittelbach (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* varioref.dtx:
	Added defaults for brazil.

Mon May 16 20:54:16 1994 Frank Mittelbach (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* array.dtx (section{The macros \texttt{\protect):
	Use \@finalstrut in \@endpbox

Wed Mar 23 11:15:29 1994 Braams J.L. (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* layout.dtx : repaired bug in twosided mode.

	Changed vertical positioning of the arrows identifying
	\amrginparsep and \marginparwidth

	Repaired bug in the preparation of the table of dimensions.

	Produce two pages in twoside mode

	Removed use of \wlog

Mon Mar 14 22:40:50 1994 Frank Mittelbach (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* array.dtx: 
	Removed identification \typeout's.
	Removed the check for the old version of the \@tfor macro.

Mon Feb 28 10:48:50 1994 Frank Mittelbach (latex-bugs@Uni-Mainz.DE)

	* array.dtx: 
	Moved the driver code in front so that the documentation can be
        processed by simply running the file through LaTeX2e.

	* ftnright.dtx: 
	Moved the driver code in front so that the documentation can be
        processed by simply running the file through LaTeX2e.

	* multicol.dtx: 
	Balance code rewritten; many changes to documentation etc.
	Changed driver code slightly.
	Moved the driver code in front so that the documentation can be
        processed by simply running the file through LaTeX2e.

	* theorem.dtx: 
	Changed driver code slightly.
	Moved the driver code in front so that the documentation can be
        processed by simply running the file through LaTeX2e.


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