Re: flavours of LaTeX
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 12:44 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
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> On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 05:15:48PM +0000, michael wrote:
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> > All useful info but my main Q was how come one installation uses etex
> > and the other pdftex. And how best to 'standardize'? There may have been
> > a question during installation about pdflatex but I'm not sure if I
> > remember correctly. If so I guess I can remove --purge and re-install
> > but I was presuming there was another/better way?
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> > Thanks, M
> Hi M,
> I have been not really following the total discussion, but I have an
> observation: sometimes there are programs that can be called more than
> one way and that the way they are called affect how they works.
> E.g. grep is a program and egrep is a shell script that calls grep with
> specific options.
>
> Maybe $TEX_PROGRAM_1 and $TEX_PROGRAM_2 are just calling
> $ACTUAL_TEX_PROGRAM with different options?
>
> as for reconfiguring a package:
> dpkg-reconfigure -plow $PKGNAME
> will reconfigure a package with the most questions asked
> dpkg-reconfigure -phigh $PKGNAME
> will reconfigure a package with the least questions asked
>
ah, that's useful! care to remind me how to determine which package
something came in? eg for the command 'latex'? or is it not that
simple? ;)
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