Re: new beta: 2.96.2

Thomas Esser <[email protected]> writes:

> Well, some time has passed since the last beta and lots of things have
> changed again. The highlights:
>   - updated prerelease of web2c-7.5.3
>   - stable pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20b-2.1
>   - stable xdvik-22.82
>   - dvipng added (has required to add gd library as well)
>   - texinfo 4.7
>   - new newhelpindex.html by Joao Palhoto Matos
> 
> I'd be happy to get any feedback (not only about problems/bugs),
> especially since lots of web2c internaly have changed (e.g. regarding 8bit
> clean \write)

Time for praying.  Is there a a summary available?  Web2C's tendency
to transliterate 8bit characters in error messages is one leading
cause of installation/usage problems for preview-latex
<URL:http://preview-latex.sourceforge.net>, and it also likely
complicates character-grained error location indentification for other
TeX shells.

It would be nice to know what to expect.

> and a lot of new code was added (gd library and dvipng).

Good choice.

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