Re: Use etex instead of tex?
On 28.07.04 Richard Lewis (debian@rtf.org.uk) wrote:
> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> writes:
Hi *,
> > +e-TeX versus traditional Knuth TeX:
> > +===================================
> > +Since beginning of 2003 people are encouraged to use e-TeX instead of the
>
You are the official proofreader of debian-tetex-maint, aren't you?
:-)
> and say *why* they are telling us to use e-TeX)
>
I've put the link I've posted originally into README.Debian. If
anybody wants to read a little about the background he should go
there.
New version attached.
H.
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e-TeX versus traditional Knuth TeX:
===================================
Since beginning of 2003 the LaTeX3 team encourages[1] TeX users to use
e-TeX[2] instead of Knuth's traditional TeX compiler. As of tetex-bin
2.0.2-17 /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, more precisely,
/etc/texmf/fmt.d/00tetex.cnf).
If you want to use the original TeX compiler by Knuth, revert the
changes in 00tetex.cnf and modify the soft links in /usr/bin. Normally
that should be not necessary, as e-TeX is fully compatible to Knuth's
TeX.
[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.latex.latex3/330
[2] /usr/share/doc/texmf/etex/base/etex-man.pdf.gz
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