On 16/02/2021 5:10 pm, Murat Yildizoglu wrote:
Le 16 févr. 2021 à 11:07, Richard Kimberly Heck <rikih...@lyx.org
<mailto:rikih...@lyx.org>> a écrit :
On 2/15/21 10:55 PM, Murat Yildizoglu wrote:
Dear Lyxers,
I have recently observed that I see the message
(L3-Programming-Layer) followed by a date (2021-02-06) in the status
bar when I compile a document.
Do you have any idea about its meaning and origin?
That is the LaTeX version you have telling you that it is the latest and
greatest.
Riki
Ah, Thank you Richard!
I have recently updated to MacTex 2020 and this change came with it
probably.
Happy to use the greatest version! :-)
—
Prof. Murat Yildizoglu
More specifically: L3 (usually lowercase l3) refers to the LaTeX3
project which has created a suite of macros organized into a programming
language expl3 that is systematic in a way that TeX and LaTeX2e are not
(although in the end the functions/statements in expl3 resolve
themselves into TeX commands). See the documentation in the l3kernel
package, particularly interface3.pdf. Increasing numbers of packages are
being created using expl3. I've managed to write a couple, one
stretching to many thousands of lines of code, whereas I struggle to
cobble 5 lines of (La)TeX together. I presume the message in LyX means
it is using expl3.
Andrew
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