Bug#338608: Documenting change to tetex 3.0; deprecating initex and virtex.

2005-11-16 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, To be more precise, removeal of initex could be a news but its background, i.e. initex is replaced with tex -ini is not a news. Anyway I'd like to know what statement in NEWS.Debian do you think is appropriate? I object to that assertion; it wasn't really announced anywhere. I

Bug#338608: Documenting change to tetex 3.0; deprecating initex and virtex.

2005-11-16 Thread Frank Küster
Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I have a better understanding on this problem at hand: Debian tetex packages now use pdfetex. 'initex' interface does not s/Debian tetex packages/teTeX/; I wouldn't understand what 'initex' interface means if I hadn't followed the discussion.

Bug#338608: Documenting change to tetex 3.0; deprecating initex and virtex.

2005-11-14 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 04:07:48PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: all. In sarge, virtex was effectively a synonym for plain TeX. Is this because fmt file for plain TeX is now called as tex.fmt (but not plain.fmt which was common in old days), and virtex is a symbolic link to tex, and a

Bug#338608: Documenting change to tetex 3.0; deprecating initex and virtex.

2005-11-13 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, Well, it was a news, which could have been included in 3.0-2 NEWS.Debian. To be more precise, removeal of initex could be a news but its background, i.e. initex is replaced with tex -ini is not a news. Anyway I'd like to know what statement in NEWS.Debian do you think is

Bug#338608: Documenting change to tetex 3.0; deprecating initex and virtex.

2005-11-13 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 11:05:41PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Two questions remain: 1. Is there a documentation stating the differences of the tetex implementation from the TeX as documented in TeXBook ? That could be useful Plain TeX (as executed by the command tex) on a default setup

Bug#338608: Documenting change to tetex 3.0; deprecating initex and virtex.

2005-11-13 Thread Frank Küster
Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Well, it was a news, which could have been included in 3.0-2 NEWS.Debian. To be more precise, removeal of initex could be a news but its background, i.e. initex is replaced with tex -ini is not a news. Anyway I'd like to know what statement

Bug#338608: Documenting change to tetex 3.0; deprecating initex and virtex.

2005-11-13 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 04:54:30PM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote: Wrong - the Debian package doesn't deprecate anything, and not even teTeX does. Ten months too late, Debian has a package for teTeX 3.0 which drops a symlink and thus support for a prognam name which has been deprecated for years.

Bug#338608: Documenting change to tetex 3.0; deprecating initex and virtex.

2005-11-13 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
From: Julian Gilbey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bug#338608: Documenting change to tetex 3.0; deprecating initex and virtex. Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:45:41 + On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 04:54:30PM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote: Wrong - the Debian package doesn't deprecate anything, and not even

Bug#338608: Documenting change to tetex 3.0; deprecating initex and virtex.

2005-11-13 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
From: Julian Gilbey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#338608: Documenting change to tetex 3.0; deprecating initex and virtex. Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 15:24:40 + all. In sarge, virtex was effectively a synonym for plain TeX. Is this because fmt file for plain TeX is now called as tex.fmt

Bug#338608: Documenting change to tetex 3.0; deprecating initex and virtex.

2005-11-13 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
From: Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Documenting change to tetex 3.0; deprecating initex and virtex. Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 23:05:41 +0900 Debian tetex package deprecates initex and virtex commands since version 3.0. initex has been superceded by -ini option of tex command; invoke