Bug#338608: Documenting change to tetex 3.0; deprecating initex and virtex.

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

Hi,

> > Well, it was a news, which could have been included in 
> > 3.0-2 NEWS.Debian.
> 
> To be more precise, removeal of initex could be a news but
> its background, i.e. initex is replaced with "tex -ini"
> is not a news.  Anyway I'd like to know what statement
> in NEWS.Debian do you think is appropriate?

I object to that assertion; it wasn't really announced anywhere.

I would consider a statement like the following in 
NEWS.Debian/README.Debian appropriate:

Debian tetex package deprecates initex and virtex commands since
version 3.0.  initex has been superceded by -ini option of tex
command; invoke 'tex -ini ' instead.  For virtex, there is no
replacement, since Debian tetex maintainers know of no users of the
command.  The references you find in tex books and documentation
published in the past century are wrong; please do live in the 21st
century.




Two questions remain:

1. Is there a documentation stating the differences of the tetex 
implementation from the TeX as documented in TeXBook ?
That could be useful

2. Is 'virtex' equal to 'tex &plain ' ?


regards,
	junichi
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