Re: Use etex instead of tex?
On 12.07.04 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> schrieb:
Hi all,
> > 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.
>
As you've read in dctt it's rather easy to do. The configure-script
of tetex-bin knows an option --with-etex=tex. In this case the
traditional Knuth TeX is not built at all and even /usr/bin/tex
points to etex. I don't know if this is a good idea. I thinks thats
to radical. I'd rather change only the two links /usr/bin/pdflatex
and /usr/bin/latex (and adapt fmtutil.cnf) and leave the rest
untouched.
Suggestions, hints?
H.
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