Re: MetaPost date

2002-11-30 Thread Olaf Weber 
Hartmut Henkel writes:

 MetaPost output doesn't show here (teTeX-20021116, debian-woody PC) the
 current date/time, but the date/time of teTeX build. Also not in the
 %CreationDate comment, Is this ok? An example:

 beginfig(1)
 label(decimal(day)  decimal(month)  decimal(year), (100mm,150mm));
 endfig; end

 This gives still 16112002 here.

It looks like this bug was introduced in 1999 and went unnoticed for
quite some time.  Happily the fix is easy and will be in the upcoming
web2c 7.3.12, and from there go into teTeX and TeXlive.

 Greetings Hartmut

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Olaf Weber

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Quick question regarding -src-specials

2002-11-30 Thread David Kastrup 

It is a well-known problem that there are quite a few TeX versions
are around where -src-specials will cause the equivalent of
\usepackage{indentfirst}, namely causing chapter beginnings and the
like under LaTeX to be indented.

Does anybody have the scoop about what to tell the people still being
surprised?  IIRC, this was supposed to be fixed (as in: the number
of cases where the specials wreaked appallingly visible havoc be
reduced) in some web2c version.

Are there any specific releases of teTeX-beta and/or TeXlive that one
could recommend as not being afflicted in that particular manner?

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum