[tex-live] source changes

Olaf Weber olaf@infovore.xs4all.nl
03 Jun 2002 19:08:44 +0200


Sebastian Rahtz writes:
> On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 10:29:24PM +0200, Olaf Weber wrote:

>> Other options: wTeX (the w from Web2C, of course).

> Christian Schenk needs the same fix for MikTeX, though

The same fix, yes, but he may choose a non-identical one anyway?
Has he had any comments on this mess?

>> 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...

That's why I like it.  You can combine it with explaining that we're
working with tau-epsilon-chi.

-- 
Olaf Weber

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