[OS X TeX] TL2004: LaTeX has become pdfLaTeX

Gerben Wierda Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl
Sat Oct 16 22:23:56 CEST 2004


This is one of the fundamental changes in TL2004. Almost all prgrams 
use the same binary but are then told what kind of emulation they have 
to do (e.g. E-TeX, PDF or DVI)

G

On Oct 16, 2004, at 17:53, christopher ciotti wrote:

> On Oct 15, 2004, at 10:38 PM, Alexandru Scorpan wrote:
>
>> I just typeset a file with latex (in a terminal window) and noticed 
>> that the output had margin kerning.  Then I noticed its announcement:
>> 	This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.3)
>> Cool.
>>
>>
>
> It appears simlinked:
>
> [cciotti] ~ $ ls -l `which latex`
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin  7 13 Oct 16:06 
> /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/latex@ -> pdfetex
>
> Very cool . . .
>
> -- 
> chris ciotti <chris_ciotti at yahoo.com>
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