[tex-eplain] Does xeplain.tex still exist?

Oleg Katsitadze olegkat at gmail.com
Thu Jun 18 06:59:32 CEST 2009


On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 07:53:56AM -0300, Jim Diamond wrote:
> I had already taken a look inside
> eplain-3.2.tar.gz, and there is no xeplain.tex in there either.

It's there, but again inside a zip archive, look in
eplain-3.2/source/eplain.  As I understand, that's the recommended way
to distribute TeX packages.

> I think that in 2009 there is likely more
> (human) time spent maintaining two versions of files then will be lost
> by having TeX occasionally read and discard the comments in a complete
> source file.

As Dan mentioned, eplain.tex is generated automatically, so there's
only one source copy.

Best,
Oleg


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