Re: Debian Bug#338046: whizzytex: einitex unavailable from tetex and no longer functions.
From: Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>
Subject: Debian Bug#338046: whizzytex: einitex unavailable from tetex and no longer functions.
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 07:00:26 +0900
> According to the maintainers, this is an upstream change,
> and other distributions will possibly follow.
>
> The changelog/news files don't mention this change, and
> manpages still mention 'initex' etc., so this sounds like
> a premature change to make.
In changelog.gz of tetex-bin one can find;
Sun May 9 21:33:12 CEST 2004
* A huge change, to bring the teTeX source in sync with Olaf's
working sources for web2c. These changes implement:
- ini* and vir* links are no longer created
Sun Mar 28 13:14:45 CEST 2004
* add manpage for kpsewhere (thanks, Frank!)
* clean up texk/tetex/Makefile for manpage symlinks (initex,
virtex etc. are no longer installed, so we don't need manpages
for this).
About manual, initex feature is there forever so manual doesn't
stop to mention initex feature. So this doesn't mean removal
of initex is premature. (even right now, if you call tex with
the name initex, it behaves as such.)
Historically, in old, old days (TeX2.99 or so), there were real
binaries; tex, initex, virtex (one needed to call initex to
dump fmt files) and then, perhaps at sometime of TeX3.1x,
"tex -ini" was introduced but, for backward compatibility, a symbolic
link for initex (to tex) was kept for a (enough long) while.
Now it isn't surprise that major TeX distributions think it is time
to drop a obsolete symbolic link for initex.
> Ermm.. something is confused, I suppose.
Anyway, a setting like; INITEX="pdfetex -ini" in whizzytexrc
seems to work. Is it not enough for whizzytex?
Regards, 2005-11-11(Fri)
--
Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima
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