Sorry to interrupt the language discussion, but the code for
`patch level 1' of the 1996/12/01 release has just been placed on
ctan.

If you have the December release then you just need obtain the
following files.


macros/latex/packages/graphics/graphics.ins
macros/latex/packages/tools/tabularx.dtx
macros/latex/base/doc.dtx
macros/latex/base/patches.txt
macros/latex/base/ltpatch.ltx
macros/latex/unpacked/doc.sty

The relevant details from patches.txt are contained below.

David



Changes to the kernel in LaTeX2e <1996/06/01> patch level 1
-----------------------------------------------------------
(1997/02/21)

%%% internal/2402
%%% Missing % in \g@addto@macro

%%% latex/2404
%%% Reset space factor codes in the output routine.
%%% The default settings are based on the values set at \begin{document}
%%% unless they are set by defining \normalsfcodes in a class file
%%% or package.
%%% This bug was inherited from LaTeX2.09 (in fact from plain TeX).

%%% latex/2414
%%% Prior to the 1996/12/01 release a \noindent immediately after an
%%% \item would `remove' a horizontal space of length \parindent.
%%% This could have surprising effects in cases where \itemindent
%%% was not equal to \parindent.
%%%
%%% In the December release this code was rationalised to use
%%% the `\lastbox' mechanism as used after section headings.
%%% A result of this was that \noindent had no effect at all
%%% after \item.
%%%
%%% This was probably reasonable in explicit lists but it also
%%% meant \noindent had no effect in contexts such as
%%% \begin{abstract}\noindent...
%%% in the standard classes that use the list environment `internally'.
%%%
%%% This patch restores the behaviour of \noindent in abstract, and
%%% more generally always removes the \itemindent spacing from the
%%% current item if used after \item, thus it should work as expected
%%% even if \parindent and \itemindent are not equal.
%%%
%%% This area is still under investigation, and this may not be the
%%% `final' version that will be incorporated in the next full release.



Changes to non-kernel files in LaTeX <1996/06/01>
--------------------------------------------------

This section details files that have changed in the
`base', `tools', `graphics' and `mfnfss' distributions.
Updates to the `babel' `psnfss' and `amslatex'
distributions will be announced separately, if necessary.

To activate the non-kernel updates you have to retrieve the
.dtx files and unpack them with their corresponding .ins files
or alternatively (for the files in `base') you may obtain the unpacked
files from ctan archives.


base/doc.dtx          Missing % in \GetFileInfo (latex 2404)
tools/tabularx.dtx    Improved documentation and message in case table
                      is too large to fit to the requested width.
graphics/graphics.ins Add generation of dvipdf.def file. graphics/240