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Re: Bug#253098: fix to jadetex based on tetex changes



Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> writes:

> Well, I've seen already LaTeX code in the net, which runs through
> etex, but not Knuth tex.

I don't think that's relevant for me.  All jadetex is produced by
OpenJade or Jade.

> The next TeX Live and the next teTeX will not have the Knuth
> compiler at all.

Well, rather than calling it 'etex', at that point, it would just be
the 'tex' command, right?

I don't know that I wanna switch everything to use etex/pdfetex now
and then have to switch back later.

> Sorry for that! We didn't notice, that jadetex explicitly checks for
> the existence of special formats in post* ....

Special formats?  I simply check that the memory dumps are generated,
and that memory dumps for any required packages are present.
In a nutshell:

  kpsewhich latex.fmt
  kpsewhich pdftex.fmt
  kpsewhich pdflatex.fmt

Is there anything wrong or buggy in doing this?

Unless the tetex maintainers tell me I really ought to change from tex
to etex at this point in the freeze, I'd rather leave it as it is.

-- 
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@debian.org.....<URL:http://www.debian.org/>



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