Re: Use etex instead of tex?
On 13.07.04 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
Hi,
> > 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?
>
> If you provide a patch, I will integrate it.
>
Once again. The patch for Readme.Debian. Didn't write a changelog
entry yet.
H.
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--- README.Debian.orig Tue Jul 13 00:00:00 2004
+++ README.Debian Tue Jul 13 15:15:18 2004
@@ -121,6 +121,15 @@
- Note, basically, we Debian tetex maintainers do not add extra components
which are not included in the upstream teTeX.
+e-TeX versus traditional Knuth TeX:
+===================================
+Since beginning of 2003 people are encouraged to use e-TeX instead of the
+traditional Knuth compiler. As of tetex-bin 2.0.2-xx /usr/bin/latex doesn't
+point to /usr/bin/tex but rather to /usr/bin/etex (and /usr/bin/pdflatex to
+/usr/bin/pdfetex). Further adaptions were made in fmtutil.cnf (or say better
+/etc/texmf/fmt.d/00tetex.cnf). If you want to use the Knuth compiler revert
+the changes there and modify the soft links in /usr/bin.
+
NOTE for Maintainers (around 20021025 version)
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