[tldoc] tl24 one more time

Karl Berry karl at freefriends.org
Fri Mar 1 16:59:32 CET 2024


Unfortunately the LuaTeX updates ended up being different than expected,
so one more tweak. I also added a couple sentences about non-ASCII
characters in the installation path being a problem on Windows.
This time it's really really final? Maybe :)? Diff below. -k


--- texlive-en.tex	(revision 70287)
+++ texlive-en.tex	(working copy)
@@ -587,12 +587,17 @@
 > \Ucom{install-tl-windows -help}
 \end{alltt}
 
-\overfullrule=4pt
 Add a \texttt{.bat} extension to the invocations if the same directory
 also contains \texttt{install-tl-windows.exe}. This will not
 normally be the case, unless you've mirrored the \dirname{tlnet} directory
 locally.
 
+Non-ASCII characters in the path for the \TL\ installation must be
+avoided.  This may be a problem particularly under Windows 11, where
+users are forced to use a Microsoft network account.  See
+\url{https://tug.org/texlive/windows.html\#nonascii} for some
+workarounds.
+
 \begin{figure}[tb]
 \begin{boxedverbatim}
 Installing TeX Live 2024 from: ...
@@ -4293,7 +4298,7 @@
 \subsection{Present: 2024}
 \label{sec:tlcurrent}
 
-Cross-engine changes (except in original \TeX{} and e-\TeX{}):
+Cross-engine changes (except in original \TeX{}, e-\TeX{}, and Lua\TeX):
 \begin{itemize*}
 \item Avoid crashes on devious use of \cs{output} and \cs{write} braces.
 \item Tiny inner-loop optimization. (Both these changes are due to
@@ -4303,10 +4308,10 @@
 \noindent Lua\TeX: \begin{itemize*}
 \item Lua-level checks for writing to files now similar to the
 \TeX-level checks.
-\item If \cs{tracingmacros} is 256 or more, blank lines are output in
-the log between macro parameters. In 2020--2023, this was the case by
-default; before that, such blank lines were never output, which is the
-behavior of the other engines.
+\item If the Lua value \code{texconfig.trace\_extra\_newline} is set,
+blank lines are output in the log between macro parameters. In
+2020--2023, this was the case by default; before that, such blank lines
+were never output, which is the behavior of the other engines.
 \end{itemize*}
 
 \noindent MetaPost: \begin{itemize*}\raggedright




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