UNRELEASED

fix accent table mixup @Samuel-Martineau
improve wording regarding latex symbols and where to look them up since we removed the integrated list of symbols. @oetiker
replace sec:this with my-marker in the crosref section @oetiker
renamed chapter 1 and 2 / tobi
add full text of license for easier distribution / marcin-serwin
switch to biblatex for bibliography generation / marcin-serwin
replace bunch of links with citations / marcin-serwin
use booktabs for table typesetting / marcin-serwin
replace most of direct text formatting with logical markup in math chapter / marcin-serwin
add biblatex tutorial / marcin-serwin
use the new syntax for defining commands and environments in customizig LaTeX chapter / marcin-serwin
add siunitx tutorial / marcin-serwin
change document font back to Latin Modern / marcin-serwin
update polyglossia tutorial / marcin-serwin
rewrite tables intro / marcin-serwin
rewrite fancyhdr intro / marcin-serwin
lint files using chktex and latexindent / marcin-serwin
add listings and minted tutorial / marcin-serwin
add logical markup introduction / marcin-serwin
update TeX and LaTeX history / marcin-serwin
restructure the first two chapters / marcin-serwin
switch to LuaLaTeX / marcin-serwin
use minted throughout the booklet / marcin-serwin
add 'deprecated' appendix / marcin-serwin
standardized font size and textwidth in all three versions of the booklet / marcin-serwin
removed outdent and adjusted examples / marcin-serwin
switch to autoref from hyperref / marcin-serwin
use microtype / marcin-serwin
update license / marcin-serwin
drop the 2e from the title / marcin-serwin
redesign the title page with illustration / marcin-serwin
restructure the repo / marcin-serwin
update readme / marcin-serwin
drop the lssymb appendix / marcin-serwin
rewrite the math appendix to focus on unicode-math / marcin-serwin
add sections about changing math fonts / marcin-serwin
rewrite the beamer section / marcin-serwin
rewrite the graphics chapter to focus on TikZ / marcin-serwin
reviewed graphics chapter @rmrstar
formatting multi equationns systems with phantoms / chrisoph hamburger

6.4 2021.03.09

a bunch of spelling issues fixed

6.2 2018.02.28

drop the babel apppendix
switch to using polyglossia for lshort itself
rearranged the multilanguage section again

6.1 2018.02.27

rearranged the multilanguage section
moved the graphicx section into the 2nd chapter

6.0 2018.02.26

removed most mentions of dvi
moved bable into the appendix and point people to polyglossia
have people use xelatex
assume pdf everywhere ...
update inputenc fontenc info
dropped portugese section since it does not contain any special information apart from the things already mentioned in international language support

5.0.6 2015.06.13

fix super vs subscript in math chapter
added note on github
improvement to the align text

5.0.5 2015.07.18

new text for korean support
better spaceing trick for multiline equations

5.0.4 2014.10.29

a ton of language fixes by Martin Jenkins
add reference to structure section when introducing 'usepackage'

5.03 2014.4.25

fixed fixes in appendix

5.02 2014.4.21

better example for spaceing
fix spelling of Photoshop and AUCTeX
correctly spell greek technology
fix CTAN links
mention booktabs package
minor typos
improved logic in appendix on installation

5.01 2011.4.6

many minor wording fixes by Robert Funnell
massive language surgery on the math and pdf sections by Robert Funnell
simplified pdf font section
use {\greektext teknolog'ia}
better explain the empty parameter for stopping space gobbling
Added missing source files
added section on / - Nikos Pothitos

5.00 2010.12.14

-a XeLaTeX documentation added by Axel Kielhorn

misc language fixes suggested by Robert Funnell
misc language fixes suggested by Jordi Serra i Solanich

4.31 2010.06.24

fixes for new pgf examples
add note on sumatra pdf

4.30 2010.06.18

Updated installation appendig. Remove Texmate since it is not OSS software and add Texshop and Texmaker instead.
use microtype for optimized character positioning
updated graphics chapter with more emphasis on PGF/TikZ integrated several examples by Andras Salamon
add note about the layouts package to the layout page
spaceing after e.g. fixed as suggested by Mike Lee
it is --update-fndb not -update-fndb (Rockrush Engch)
integrated suggestions from the Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard and Samuel Colin
- make CTAN links more uniform throughout the document
- do not type ASCII in tt
- be less opinionated on [ vs equation
- add note on how to deal with accented characters and makeindex sorting limitations.
- update notes on how todo documents that work in both latex and pdflatex
- replace acrobat reader by pdf reader and acrobat distiller by pdf convertor
- use francais instead of frenchb and mention numprint.
- note about linux distros splitting tex distors up into many packages
- do not mention java in math-graphics
- eqref does work with tag
- equation is from latex, equation- is from amslatex ... (footnote fix)
- textcolor works fine with hyperref by now

4.27 2009.11.16

add a second argument to the example of the new command
better explanation of the textcomp degree symbol commands
Now that barack is in office we do not need all these 'you can's in the text anymore removed about 1k of them.
fix documentation on hyperref default settings by Gust Eilinger
better english for the apppendix by Tobias Vidarssønn Langhoff.
use \textbackslash instead of $\backslash$.
added notes on mongolian support by Dorjgotov Batumongke
added big update to math from stefan m. moser
added letter size to the build system

4.26 2008.09.25

fix some spellig in the PGF section

4.25 2008.09.25

added a section in TikZ&PGF graphics
remove xy pics instead
added an appendix on installing latex
Added arraystretch and colsep to table section
Removed references to Corel Draw
Don't talk about 'macro package' when introducing latex no one knows what this is anyway.
Fix for sample correlation formula on page 74 by Josue Guzman

4.24 2008.02.08

A ton of fixes for the updated math chapter by Barbara Beeton herself.

4.23

Math Chapter reworked by Lan Thuy Pham:

The amsmath package is now introduced in the beginning of the chapter, and it is assumed that the reader has loaded the package.
Wrote a short intro to AMS-LaTeX.
Added a bit about: partial, (wide)hat, bar, pieceswise functions, and from amsmath: dfrac, tfrac, tag, different matrix environments.
Modified examples: equation, equation-, \text, Greek letters, exponents ans subscripts, (c/l)dot(s), under/overline, under/overbrace, \vec, \frac, \binom, stackrel, delimiters, align/eqnarray, long equations, array, matrix, spacing, phantoms, (bold) math fonts, \displaystyle...
Removed: ( ) and the "math" environment, displaymath, subarray, eqnarray, some of the array and phantom examples, textrm.
Added Note about upper case Greek letters.
Added a new table: Arrows as Accents.
Rearranged the "Delimiters"-table a bit.
Added \clearpage after the non-amsmath stuff (to stop LaTeX from complaining).
Added a couple of labels.
Added a reference to Math Fonts (\ref{mathfonts}) at Math Alphabets.
Rearranged some of the ams-tables to optimise the space.

4.22 2007.06.30

fixed my email address

4.21 2007.06.26

removed eurofont from the archive since the license does not allow us to redistribut them ...
added \mathring to list of math accents
make a note that label must come after the caption.
changed wording in the descriprion of the stretch command by tobi
replace metafont and metapost with their logos by tobi
improved wording for pagebreak, linebreak commands by Robin Fairbairns
fix the last page counter by Morten Høgholm

4.20 2006.05.31

fixed spurious noindent on page iv

4.19 2006.05.30

added missing files to source archive

4.18 2006.05.30

section headings should be leftaligned
added notes on amsthm suggested by Daniel Flipo
improved explanation ifpdf package
use \textasciigrave for ` and \textquotesingle for ' by Tahir Hassan tah16@leicester.ac.uk
Reworde the mentioning of the preamble where I introduce the comment command.
updated eurofonts again based on Daniel Flipo's work for the french lshort
we should use utf8x for inputenc
mention unicode option for hyperref
mention active language after calling usepackage bable with multiple languages.
Added section on writing greek text by Nikolaos Pothitos n.pothitos@di.uoa.gr

4.17 2005.09.27

removed eurosans package I did never get it to actually display a symbol with all the other euro packages loaded at the same time.
made mentions of Latin and Cyrillic consistently capitalized
added note on Latin modern outline fonts to replace EC in pdfs
added proc and minimal class
mention companion 2nd edition
update for ifpdf section from Morten Høgholm
print from 4.1 to chapter 5 for pure latex graphics

4.16 2005.05.08

include properly rendered PDF version with the distribution

4.15 2005.05.08

replaced pdfscreen with beamer for presentations. Used text from the french lshort by Daniel Flipo as a basis for this.
eqref requires amslatex
use \centering to put figure into the center as begin/end{center} adds extra vertical space as suggested in http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/l2tabu/english/l2tabuen.pdf
fixed missing , after pdfauthor on page 77
added note on texdoc
renames longtabular to longtable
added notes on greek TeX -- Dimitrios 'sehh' Michelinakis dimitrios@michelinakis.gr
added notes about pronunciation of ch in ach

4.14 2004.04.04

improved explanation of raisebox parameters
added pagelayout parameters to index
added caption to includegraphics example
better examples for math fonts -- Vadym Lepetyuk lepetyuk@econ.umn.edu
note in pdf fonts section that fonts may work just fine in a modern tex installation
have label inside caption
rephrase the back-tick grave stuff
it's textcomp and not texcomp

4.13

added comment on bad rendering of example in Quotes section
added section on abstract
added note on textcelsius and texdegree in texcomp
added section on ignorespaces and ignorespacesafterend

4.12

fixed order of hebrwe letters to be 'alphabetic'
fixed colons in table 3.7 (Rightarrow was captured by marovsym)
added cyrguide bibliogrphay entry back in ...
table head in eurotable translated to english
remove kees.fig from Makefile
some wording fixes to the cirillic section.
added pdfstringdefDisableCommands to the preamble to fix some broken bookmarks -- Maksym Polyakov
reworded the paragraph on the position argument of the newsavebox command.

4.11

added graphic.tex file to source distro

4.10

Integrated EuroSymbol table from the french translation by Daniel Flipo
Created new chapter: graphics with description on the picture environment by Urs Oswald.
Moved Xy pics to the graphics chapter
compile with cm-super fonts for now
updates to the hyperref syntax table -- Maksym Polyakov
rewritten sectons on fontencoding, inputencoding -- Maksym Polyakov
section on cyrillic support -- Maksym Polyakov
turned CTAN references into URLs as suggested by Maksym Polyakov
minor updates to pdfscreen section as suggested by Maksym Polyakov
other little spellers
get rid of color in ps output ... we do not need it ... tobi
added note on p{} to tabular section
minor fixes to pdf section --- Matthias Dreier
added note on changeing baselineskip instead of using linespread.
added example for using the index command.

4.0

many minor fixes and edits in pagebreaks
added note on cm-super
punctuation, wording, big patch from Baron Schwartz
Translated and integreated the pdfTeX description from the franch version of lshort.
Added descrion of the .fd files
\part is available in article too
small backports from the french translation
drop atop and choose. Replace by binom
put notes on Float Placing Permissions where they belong
added eqref
mention landscape option of default document classes
mathcal update
changed section headings in first sample
drop latex structure figure from the intro as it is way to complex for a beginner to understand.
drop LaTeX2e story ... who care these days
added note on swiss use of >>guillemets<<
added note on eurosymb
added note on dvipdf
added article on Korean Support
added Xy Pic intro
more symbols aded -- alex mai

3.21

From Tobi

Added some notes on problems when running latex to section 1.5
added oddsidemargin to layout graphics
added note on the AE package
added extension and font indexes
mention optional label in bibitem
rephrase hyphenation explanation
added \aa to index
rearranged PageLayout section From Alexander Mai mai@migdal.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de
mini rewrites for math explanations
improved makefile
improved table environment spec

From Daniel Flipo daniel.flipo@univ-lille1.fr

section on french language support

From Maksym Polyakov polyama@myrealbox.com

parbox is not an evironment
line 248 rephrasing

3.20

From Alexander Mai st002279@hrzpub.tu-darmstadt.de

tabular presentation of input encodings
description of a typical commandline latex session
\X{\lvert}&\X{\rvert}&\X{\lVert}&\X{\rVert}
bigskip smallskip description
new ctan reference
cdot for the math section

From Tobi

added lshort.ist to insert letters between index sections
added comment on plus and minus in setlength
degree symbol
moved fragile commands section to chapter 2
no more bad boxes ... neither over nor underfull
no more oscilating text

From Many

spelling fixes

3.19

changed wording on \apendix \frontmatter \backmatter ... fixed pagebreaks in math chapter

3.18

compile fixed for environments where TEXINPUTS is set replace the environemnt command with lscommand it seems command is too common .. (Alex Mai)

3.17

Added more info on the inputenc package. Added Section on German Language support. Sections for other languages are welcome. Better explanation of the \section[xxx]{yyy} syntax Changed wording for Cross Ref Changed wording on Quotation Marks added note on fbox. added \underline command \cleardoublepage goes to a righthand page added \cline added section on package installation contributed by Joseph Hilferty

3.16

Fixed upload procedure Some spelling fixes Updated old URLs

3.15

Integrated a number of spelling and logic fixes by Björn Hvittfeldt

3.14

Even better Makefile Update TODO

3.13

Better Makefile Added description of Today, TeX, LaTeX, LaTeXe Added description of file extensions you will find when working with latex Some CTAN references fixed Better explanation for hyphenation command Added paragraph on typesetting tildes ... Added example with multicol and borders (|c|) Added Hamster disadvantage ... How todo a tilde

3.12

Replaced first section (TeX) as suggested by Michael John Downes in order to be more in sync with the real events ...

3.11

better explanation for sloppy/fussy \sin and frinds in index pointer to whitespace after non argument commands information in custom.tex

3.10

removed some exess files from tar files

3.9

included a number of minor fixes from Alexander Mai ...

3.8

Added sections on \phantom and \protect commands, based on a contribution from Alexander Mai
Added section on lines in array environments ... thanks Alex
rephrased newcommand section ... again thnaks to Alex

3.7

re-release to for some even spelling :-)

3.6

released on CTAN ...

3.5

even smaller factual errors corrected ...

3.4

minor spelling fixes

3.3

lots of small patches from Prof Ripley ...
fixed compile problem on first run ...
properly packaged the whole thing ....

3.2

added better explanation of the difference between newline and linebreak
added about 1000 spell and detail fixed contributed by Hanspeter Schmid
added new section: The Structure of Text and Language contributed by Hanspeter Schmid
added more verbose explanation about babel and hyphenation

3.1

Var spell and other fixes. Especially the ftp.shsu.edu reference has been fixed.

3.0

Restructuring of the Chapter 4 for didactical reasons ...
moved some bits to the new Chapter 5.
added 15 pages of new material ...

2.3

it's slides and not slide ... p8
pointer to foiltex added ... p8

2.2 non beta 13/10/97

made the thing compile with pdftex and hyperref

David Frey:

Sensible copyright notice
some mathematical error in math mode
correct Murphy ...

Cyril Goutte:

typos

Martin Maechler:

an Inch is exactly 25.4 mm!

2.2 7/11/95

Christian Kern:

Spelling, and some suggestions for new stuff to inlcude

Young U. Ryu:

Spelling and some errors in latex

Cyril Goutte:

Some additions for math

Brian Ripley:

Spelling, LateX 95/12/1 compatibility
Some more real english .... :-)
AMS-LaTeX now prefers eucal to euscript, so he has altered both lssym.tex and lshort2e.sty.
He has corrected some examples in chapter 3 which would be regarded as bad practice in mathematical typesetting.
He has added a section on bold symbols, and conditionals for amsbsy.

2.1 17/6/1995

Rasmus Borup Hansen:

tonns of spelling mistakes and some suggestions for more logic ...

Josef Tkadlec:

some spellings
all new hopefully even more usefull maths tables ...

2.0 5/6/1995

Mike Ressler:

Fixed Loads of spelling Mistakes.

1.9.9: 16/5/95

Tobi:

General Makeover
Added Preface.
Added example to math.tex
Introduced intro environment. I am going to add a short describtion about what the user can expect, to each chapter.
Page Layout. spec.tex now contains a copy of the Geometry page layout parameters page. Provided by the layout package from the tools bundle.
newcommand, newenvironament and newtheorem are described.
new dynamic document title
using fancy headings for header.

1.2: 8/2/95

Tobi: Revoved all | | in an attempt to make the document latex2html compatible ... failed :-(

Elliot:

Odd spelling mistakes

David Jones:

"Whitespace Description" ...

Byron:

Many Spelling fixes Some requests for examples

Partl:

Fixed Irene Hyna addr

Martien:

"Character" spelling

Claus:

ref to indexing without backslash ...

1.1: 17/11/94

Eric:

Spelling.
Removed numerical from section 1.3.3 (suggesting \3 as a valid command)
\quad as MATH spacing
No Pagenumber on first Page

Mike:

Fixed @{} Discussion (thanks)

David:

Letter case in \hyphenation ignored
`|-|.''
shelf\mbox{}ful because TeX can `forget' {} after hyphenation attempt
pointer to dcolumn package
standard calsses assume [tbp] !
Pointer to amstex and exscale package added to \big description
Thanks for symbols.tex
|-| and | | as forbidden delimiters with verb
refrence to amsfonts removed
LaTeX \vspace works within a paragraph ... (-> normally)
Pointer to graphguide.tex