Re: flavours of LaTeX
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 12:44:02 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> 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
LaTeX and friends have now all been incorporated into pdfetex; only bare
TeX is still a separate executable:
$ ls -l `which {,la,ams,e,jade,pdf{,e,la,jade}}tex`
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2006-10-20 10:13 /usr/bin/amstex -> pdfetex
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2006-10-20 10:13 /usr/bin/etex -> pdfetex
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2006-10-18 10:05 /usr/bin/jadetex -> etex
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2006-10-20 10:13 /usr/bin/latex -> pdfetex
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 475824 2006-10-19 15:42 /usr/bin/pdfetex
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2006-10-18 10:05 /usr/bin/pdfjadetex -> pdfetex
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2006-10-20 10:13 /usr/bin/pdflatex -> pdfetex
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2006-10-20 10:13 /usr/bin/pdftex -> pdfetex
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 245308 2006-10-19 15:42 /usr/bin/tex
pdfetex, however, behaves differently depending on which name was used
to invoke it, e.g. it produces a dvi if you call latex, a pdf if you
call pdflatex, etc.
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Regards,
Florian
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