Bug#94845: ITP: ptex-buildsupport -- Support files for building ASCII pTeX
Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2001-04-22
Severity: wishlist
o What's this?
ASCII p(La)TeX is a Japanese-localized TeX. It can handle 2-byte Japanese
Kanji characters(supported encoding is EUC-JP) properly and also supports
traditional Tate-gaki(vertical writing) style.
The first ASCII pTeX(then called ASCII jTeX) was developed in ca. 1984. It
means, it was much before the appearance of Babel or Omega. ASCII Corp., the
developer of pTeX, has been improving pTeX with zeal and pTeX still has
considerable share in Japanese academic society. For example, over 30% of
scientific papers at my university are written with pTeX. A bunch of books
about usage of pTeX are published every year.
pTeX has nothing to do with Polish TeX. People at ASCII said "p" means
"publishing"...oh well, you can say Japanese are insular. I tried pretty
hard not to bother Polish TeX in teTeX.deb packages, anyway.
o License
This package was debianized by Masayuki Hatta <mhatta@debian.org> on
Tue, 3 Apr 2001 22:03:33 +0900.
It was downloaded from ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/systems/unix/teTeX-beta
Upstream Author(s): Thomas Esser <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de> et al.
Copyright:
The teTeX distribution is free software; you can redistribute it
and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.
On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public
License may be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL
The individual parts of this distribution often have their own
copyright. Please look into the respective files for their copyright.
(See below, "ptex-buildsupport")
o NTT jTeX(jtex packages in Debian)
NTT jTeX is another Japanized TeX and its syntax is not compatible with pTeX.
It has no support for Tete-gaki. For some reason, it's not as much popular as
ASCII pTeX. But the good thing is, jTeX is released under a license compliant
with DFSG.
o ptex-buildsupport
Since ASCII pTeX is provided as a set of additional source files to teTeX
source tree, you need teTeX source tarball when you build ptex packages.
teTeX is damn big one, so I decided to strip it down to the bare minimum for
building pTeX and provide as a separate package. In this way, I don't have to
increase the version number of the source packages of ptex-* when new teTeX
beta is available.
These package have been maintained by a member of Debian JP Project, and
recently I took over the maintainership.
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux paraiso 2.4.3 #1 2001ǯ 4·î 18Æü ¿åÍËÆü 00:05:07 JST i586
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