[tex-live] source changes

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Mon, 3 Jun 2002 00:26:09 +0100


On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 10:29:24PM +0200, Olaf Weber wrote:
> 
> How did it go again: "This program is almost, but not quite,
> completely unlike TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.7)"?
 
"This program is like, TeX, man, it's cool dont worry about it"

> Other options: wTeX (the w from Web2C, of course).
Christian Schenk needs the same fix for MikTeX, though

> Or more Knuthian
> FTeX, where the F is not an "ef", but our representation of the old
> greek 'digamma' or "wau" (so again 'w').  Of course you get ungainly
> constructs like pdfwTeX or pdfFTeX in that case, but that quickly
> becomes unavoidable.

that just *so* obscure... 

> > the English footballers were bad, werent they.
> 
> I didn't bother to watch. :-)

the good news is that if we re-release TeX Live tomorrow it will
be the Jubilee Edition, to celebrate 50 years of Queen Elizabeth!

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