> * Robin Fairbairns on Tue, Dec 14, 2004: > >> most of them looks ok, but latex is linked to pdfetex. Is this really > >> correct? > > > > indeed, as advertised. the latex project suggested doing away with > > "tex", making everything e-tex based, and the texlive people realised > > we can do with nothing but pdfetex. > > Hmm, for me the only drawback is that I haven't got it to work > with LilyPond (music notation); or, to be more precise, I got > LilyPond to work by linking latex to tex in texmf.cnf (otherwise > I just use pdflatex) but not the so called lilypond-book > interface that integrates notation into LaTeX-documents.
lilypond probably uses a broken test for the presence of pdftex. the *only* satisfactory test is that in ifpdf.sty (or one of its derivatives). see http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=ifpdf
