Re: flavours of LaTeX

On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 12:44:02 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 05:15:48PM +0000, michael wrote:

All useful info but my main Q was how come one installation uses etex
and the other pdftex. And how best to 'standardize'? There may have been
a question during installation about pdflatex but I'm not sure if I
remember correctly. If so I guess I can remove --purge and re-install
but I was presuming there was another/better way?

Thanks, M
Hi M,
I have been not really following the total discussion, but I have an
observation: sometimes there are programs that can be called more than
one way and that the way they are called affect how they works.
E.g. grep is a program and egrep is a shell script that calls grep with
specific options.

Maybe $TEX_PROGRAM_1 and $TEX_PROGRAM_2 are just calling
$ACTUAL_TEX_PROGRAM with different options?

as for reconfiguring a package:
dpkg-reconfigure -plow $PKGNAME
will reconfigure a package with the most questions asked
dpkg-reconfigure -phigh $PKGNAME
will reconfigure a package with the least questions asked

LaTeX and friends have now all been incorporated into pdfetex; only bare
TeX is still a separate executable:

$ ls -l `which {,la,ams,e,jade,pdf{,e,la,jade}}tex`
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2006-10-20 10:13 /usr/bin/amstex -> pdfetex
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2006-10-20 10:13 /usr/bin/etex -> pdfetex
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2006-10-18 10:05 /usr/bin/jadetex -> etex
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2006-10-20 10:13 /usr/bin/latex -> pdfetex
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 475824 2006-10-19 15:42 /usr/bin/pdfetex
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2006-10-18 10:05 /usr/bin/pdfjadetex -> pdfetex
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2006-10-20 10:13 /usr/bin/pdflatex -> pdfetex
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2006-10-20 10:13 /usr/bin/pdftex -> pdfetex
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 245308 2006-10-19 15:42 /usr/bin/tex

pdfetex, however, behaves differently depending on which name was used
to invoke it, e.g. it produces a dvi if you call latex, a pdf if you
call pdflatex, etc.

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Regards,
Florian


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