MiKTeX News File

Revision 1.20a

April 1999

Christian Schenk <cschenk@snafu.de>


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Copyright (C) 1998--1999 Christian Schenk

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MiKTeX 1.20a (April 1999)

The source archives (source*.zip) were removed from the normal distribution. They are now in the CTAN directory systems/win32/miktex/source.

Updated Apps

New Apps

Resolved Problems

MiKTeX 1.20 (April 1999)

New Installation Method

MiKTeX is now (again) distributed as set of Zip files. The new Setup Wizard replaces the InstallSHIELD(R) setup program.

Updated Apps

New Apps

New Features

MiKTeX 1.11 (August 1998, February 1999)

Highlights

Distributions

MiKTeX is now distributed in the form of four independent self-extracting setup utilities:

`bare.exe'
The bare distribution includes executables only. It is suited for sites that already have a comprehensive TEXMF tree (e.g. a TeXLive3 CDROM).
`basic.exe'
The basic distribution includes fundamental applications and macro packages.
`advanced.exe'
The advanced distribution includes the basic distribution plus the following components:
`complete.exe'
The complete distribution includes the advanced distribution plus the following components:

Resolved Problems

YAP 0.94v

Hyphenation Patterns

Plain TeX only loads the the standard hyphenation patterns (hyphen.tex), i.e. it does not consult language.dat.

initexmf (fka configure)

makepk (aka MakeTeXPK)

TeX (and also pdfTeX)

Dvips

New Applications

Updated

MiKTeX 1.10b (March 1998)

Resolved Problems

MiKTeX 1.10a (February 1998)

Resolved Problems

MiKTeX 1.10 (February 1998)

Hightlights

Resolved Problems

New Applications

YAP

dvips

configure

INITEX, INIPDFTEX ...

TeX, pdfTeX, Omega

Makeinfo

makepk (a.k.a. MakTeXPK)

MiKTeX 1.09 (October 1997)

Resolved Problems

New Applications

MiKTeX 1.08 (August 1997)

New Features

New Applications

Upated

Resolved Problems

MiKTeX 1.07 (February 1997)

Resolved Problems

Anti-Features

MiKTeX 1.06 (January 1997)

New Features

Anti-Features

Improvements

Updated

Resolved Problems

MiKTeX 1.05 (May 1996)

New Features

Updated

Resolved Problems


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