why is e.g. web2c in the texmf tree?

Werner Lemberg twg-tds@tug.cs.umb.edu
Thu, 14 Nov 1996 07:26:51 +0100 (MET)



On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

>  > 
>  > I want this the problem be solved in a more general way. I only want to
>  > insure that longtable.sty will not became longta~e.a0r, as you mentioned,
>  > but will be shortened in a predictable way. It may be that even OT1cmr.fd
> i have been moaning about those uppercase .fd files for ages :-}
> 
> to make you happy, what i need is a changed mkisofs program which 
> does the ISO-ization optimized for TeX. i am not capable of doing this
> hacking, i am afraid, but if anyone cares to take it on, I for one
> will use it

This is good news! I assume that the maintainer of mkisofs can help...


    Werner