[biblio] TeX conflict between bibtex.web and webmac.tex

Andreas Scherer andreas_tex at freenet.de
Fri May 15 11:33:14 CEST 2020


Hi,

In its current form, BibTeX's source code can not be woven stand-alone
with current WEB and TeX'ed, because of "active character 'E'" (line 75)
and the collision with macros '\E', '\ET', and '\ETs' in 'webmac.tex.

I am aware that TeX implementers worked around this bug in 'bibtex.ch'
for at least 15 years, but I want to ask for lines 70--77 of
'bibtex.web' be removed for good.

TIA,
Andreas


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