Bug#413449: tex-common: minor issues in section 2.1 of TeX-on-Debian.pdf

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> wrote:

> The latter means something like:
>
> s@(^|[[:space:]])TeX([[:space:]]|$)@\1\\TeX{}\2@g
> s@(^|[[:space:]])LaTeX([[:space:]]|$)@\1\\LaTeX{}\2@g
> s@(^|[[:space:]])pdfTeX([[:space:]]|$)@\1pdf\\TeX{}\2@g
> s@(^|[[:space:]])TeX-related([[:space:]]|$)@\1\\TeX-related\2@g
> etc.
>
> where we list all cases needing a special formatting. This looks a bit
> more reliable to me. I don't think there are so many cases to list, and
> this is easier to adapt if e.g. pdfTeX has his own \pdfTeX command that
> does a better formatting than pdf\TeX.

I agree.  Except that I think that we can assume that a "TeXstring" with
a hyphen after it can also be replaced always:

(^|[[:space:]])TeX(-|[[:space:]]|$)

at least until we find that it causes an error (a hyphen in front *and*
after TeX gives a false positive, the filename Debian-TeX-Policy).

Regards, Frank

-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)