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 discussio

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 any

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 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 initex has been superceded by -ini option of tex 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; inv

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

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 depreca

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 year

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

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 s

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