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Re: Use etex instead of tex?



Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> schrieb:

> /usr/bin/latex will point to etex instead of tex. As I have doubts
> that teTeX 3.0 will enter sarge and I'm afraid the next Debian
> realease after sarge will not come out before 2006: Would it be a
> good idea to implement that in 2.0.2 we'll ship soon? 

A very good idea.

> Unfortunately
> just redirecting the soft link /usr/bin/latex isn't sufficient.
> Before I further discuss about technical details: what do you think
> about that idea?

If you feel this is something you would have fun concentrating on, go
ahead. I'd rather release tetex with 10 more normal bugs and have it use
(pdf)etex. Maybe you can backport the changes from tetex-beta.



Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie



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