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178 TUGboat, Volume 30 (2009), No. 2 # web visitors can’t see outside web tree Order Deny, Allow Deny from all # web visitors can see the web tree Order Allow, Deny Allow from all Options +FollowSymLinks # soft link to CTAN tree Order Allow, Deny Allow from all Options -ExecCGI, +FollowSymLinks, -Includes, -IncludesNOEXEC, +Indexes DirectoryIndex # no value, so ‘index.html’ is not used 2.3 Become official When you have the files, and the cron job, and you are offering public access, visit http://www.ctan. org/mirror_signup to sign up to become an official mirror. After a day or two, you will be added to a mailing list that is very low volume, perhaps a half dozen messagesayear. And,youwillbeputintothe CTAN system, so that you will start seeing traffic. Jim Hefferon Figure 1: Part of your web configuration file 3 Thanks If you can run a mirror, then we at CTAN would appreciateit. Itisamuchneededservice—wecould not continue without our mirrors. ⋄ Jim Hefferon Saint Michael’s College Colchester, Vermont USA ftpmaint (at) tug dot ctan dot org
TUGboat, Volume 30 (2009), No. 2 179 TEX Live 2009 news Karl Berry Abstract Notable changes in the TEX Live 2009 release. Introduction TEX Live is a cross-platform TEX distribution supported by the TEX user groups worldwide. Our native distribution provides its own installer and management tools; it also serves as the basis for the TEX packages in most GNU/Linux, BSD-related, and other system distributions. It was first released in 1996 by Sebastian Rahtz, based on Thomas Esser’s teTEX. By the time this note reaches print, we hope the 2009 release will be in final production. News for 2009 In TEX Live 2009, the most visible change is that pdf(L A)TEX now automatically converts a requested Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) file to PDF, via the epstopdf package, when and if the L ATEX configuration file graphics.cfg is loaded, and PDF is being output. The default options are intended to eliminate any chance of hand-created PDF files being overwritten, but you can also prevent epstopdf from being loaded at all by putting \newcommand {\DoNotLoadEpstopdf}{} (or \def...) before the \documentclass declaration. For details, see the package documentation for epstopdf (http://ctan. org/pkg/epstopdf-pkg). A related important change is that execution of a few external commands, via the \write18 feature, is now enabled by default—for example, epstopdf, makeindex, andbibtex. The exact list of commands is defined in the texmf.cnf file. Installations which must disallow all such external commands can deselect this option in the TEX Live installer, or override the value in texmf.cnf after installation. The default output format for Lua(L A)TEX is now PDF, to take advantage of LuaTEX’s OpenType support, et al. New executables named dviluatex anddvilualatexrunLuaTEXwith DVIoutput. The LuaTEX home page is http://luatex.org. The original Omega engine and Lambda format have been excised, after discussions with the Omega authors. The updated Aleph and Lamed remain, as do the Omega utilities. A new release of the amsfonts package is included, including updates to the Computer Modern fonts in Type 1: a few shape changes made over the years by Knuth in the Metafont sources have been integrated, and the hinting has been updated. The Euler math fonts have been thoroughly reshaped by Hermann Zapf (see http://tug.org/TUGboat/ Articles/tb29-2/tb92hagen-euler.pdf). In all cases, the metrics are unchanged. The AMS fonts home page: http://ams.org/tex/amsfonts.html. The new GUI front end TEXworks is included for Windows, and is also in MacTEX. For other platforms, and more information, see its home page, http://tug.org/texworks. TEXworks is a crossplatform front end aiming at initial ease-of-use, inspired by the TeXShop editor for MacOSX. The graphics program Asymptote is included for most platforms. This implements a text-based graphics description language somewhat akin to MetaPost, but with advanced 3D support and other features. The Asymptote home page, with documentation and more, is http://asymptote.sourceforge.net. The separate dvipdfm program (no longer maintained) has been replaced by dvipdfmx, which operates in a special compatibility mode under that name. dvipdfmx includes CJK support and has accumulated many other fixes over the years since the last dvipdfm release. The DVIPDFMx home page is http://project.ktug.or.kr/dvipdfmx. Executables for the cygwin and i386-netbsd platforms are now included, while the other BSD distributions have been dropped; we were advised that OpenBSD and FreeBSD users get TEX through their package systems, plus there were difficulties in making binaries that had a chance of working on more than one version. Lastly, a miscellany of smaller changes: we now use xz compression, the stable replacement for lzma format (http://tukaani.org/xz/); a literal $ is allowed in filenames (when it does not introduce a known variable name); the Kpathsea library is now multi-threaded (made use of in MetaPost); the entire TEX Live build is now based on Automake. In summary Thanks to all the many people involved in this and past releases. See the documentation for acknowledgements, as well as installation and usage information—http://tug.org/texlive/doc.html. All releases of TEX Live, along with ancillary material such as CD labels, are available at ftp: //tug.org/historic/systems/texlive. TEX Live and MiKTEX account for a substantial portion of the total traffic to CTAN. So more mirrors are always welcome; if you can help, please see http: //ctan.org/mirroring.html, and thanks. ⋄ Karl Berry http://tug.org/texlive/
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