Re: Quick question regarding -src-specials

2002-12-01 Thread Thomas Esser
 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.

I think that teTeX-beta never had this bug. It was introduced by a last
minute web2c-fix, shortly before TeX Live 7 was released.  I was unsure
about that fix and had not aapplied it to teTeX-beta.

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

I think that only the first versions of TeX Live 7 are affected. The
programs identify themself with a web2c-version that ends up with x,
7.3.7x I think.

Thomas



Re: Quick question regarding -src-specials

2002-12-01 Thread Staszek Wawrykiewicz
David Kastrup wrote:
 Are there any specific releases of teTeX-beta and/or TeXlive that one
 could recommend as not being afflicted in that particular manner?

Thomas Esser replied:
 I think that only the first versions of TeX Live 7 are affected. The
 programs identify themself with a web2c-version that ends up with x,
 7.3.7x I think.

As concerned TL7, it is still:
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.7x)

I think it is intentionally, so we have the same binaries for all (GUST,
TUG, DANTE, TUG2002, CSTUG CD TeX Live 7 releases).

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Staszek Wawrykiewicz
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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