Wed, 23 Jun 2010, Don Simons wrote:
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:46:45 -0700
(cut)
Right now I'm leaning strongly toward making the new PMX
produce only "new" files, ones that require the new
musixtex.tex and eTeX, and I intend to follow that course
unless I hear any convincing arguments why I should spend the
extra effort to try to make the new PMX capable of producing
"old" MusiXTeX files as an option. In any event the current
version of PMX will remain available as long as there is a
host for the software part of WIMA.
--Don Simons
4 comments:
(1) the way the TeX development is going, eTeX is just about
to become the standard (default) any day now. Since, to
my knowledge, there is NOTHING that will run with old
(i.e. restricted) TeX, but not with eTeX, there is no
longer any sensible reason to prefer "old" TeX to eTeX,
(2) the argument regarding MusixTeX is slightly less
convincing, because installing the new MusixTeX, if you
have the "old" MusixTeX up and running, involves some work
(minor IMHO, considering the advantages).
(3) So my vote is clearly: Don, go ahead with letting PMX
use the new MusixeX only! I don't see a reason to add an
option to use the "old" MusixTeX, as long as one keeps
the "old" PMX in one's archive (which is prudent
procedure anyway).
(4) (side remark): MikTeX users will want to make sure that
the current distribution(s), 2.8 (2.7), run eTeX by
default. It seems to me that is indeed the case; but the
log file(s) do not say so explicitly. Some months ago, I
sent an email to the mikTeX users' list asking for
confirmation, but never received an answer. Does anybody
here know this more precisely?
ccn.
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