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Re: flavours of LaTeX



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On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 05:15:48PM +0000, michael wrote:
> 
> All useful info but my main Q was how come one installation uses etex
> and the other pdftex. And how best to 'standardize'? There may have been
> a question during installation about pdflatex but I'm not sure if I
> remember correctly. If so I guess I can remove --purge and re-install
> but I was presuming there was another/better way?
> 
> Thanks, M
Hi M, 
I have been not really following the total discussion, but I have an
observation: sometimes there are programs that can be called more than
one way and that the way they are called affect how they works.
E.g. grep is a program and egrep is a shell script that calls grep with
specific options.

Maybe $TEX_PROGRAM_1 and $TEX_PROGRAM_2 are just calling
$ACTUAL_TEX_PROGRAM with different options?

as for reconfiguring a package:
dpkg-reconfigure -plow $PKGNAME
will reconfigure a package with the most questions asked
dpkg-reconfigure -phigh $PKGNAME
will reconfigure a package with the least questions asked

cheers,
Kev
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