Bug#193399: ITP: latex209 -- macro files of LaTeX 2.09 25-mar-1992 version

[TSUCHIYA Masatoshi <tsuchiya@namazu.org>]

>> On Fri, 16 May 2003 12:55:54 +0200
>> agmartin@aq.upm.es (Agustin Martin Domingo) said as follows:

>If your documents starts with a '\documentstyle{your_style}' call
>instead of a '\documentclass' one the 209 compatibility mode should
>automatically be activated. What kind of problems are you
>experiencing?

It is true that the 2.09 compatibility mode works finely in almost
cases.  However, LaTeX-2.09 itself still be needed for style files
that use internal macros of LaTeX-2.09.  The style file of my
bachelor's thesis is an example of such style files, and there are a
fair number of sources that use it.  When one of them is processed in
the 2.09 compatibility mode, the following message is printed.

    ! Undefined control sequence.

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TSUCHIYA Masatoshi