Re: Use etex instead of tex?

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> schrieb:


> New version attached.

It's in NEWS.Debian now:

  e-TeX versus traditional Knuth TeX:
  ===================================

    Since the beginning of 2003, the LaTeX3 team encourages[1] to use
    e-TeX[2] instead of the 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
    Knuth's compiler, revert the changes there 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


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