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authorNorbert Preining <norbert@preining.info>2021-02-16 03:01:00 +0000
committerNorbert Preining <norbert@preining.info>2021-02-16 03:01:00 +0000
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2015-09-30: Update to macOS 10.11 broke GPC and therefore TeX-GPC
as well. Helpless, sad, hoping for a revival of GPC.
-2019-02-22: Emergency edition of TeX-FPC. Date fixed at 1776-07-14.
+2019-02-22: 1st edition of TeX-FPC. Date fixed at 1776-07-14.
-2019-03-04: same as above, fixing three bugs, all reported by Joachim.
+2019-03-04: fixing three bugs of 1st. edition, all reported by Joachim.
The shell script tgl tried to launch good old GPC. An
extra space in tex.ch corrupted the change file. In
- tex.ch a '\marke G' still waits to be replaced by '\marke X'.
+ tex.ch a '\marke G' waited to be replaced by '\marke X'.
-now: 2nd. edition. All features recreated! Finally arrived the state
+2020-11-25: 2nd edition. All features recreated! Finally arrived the state
of 2008-09-07. Exhausted but happy!
Igor Liferenko reported another bug in TeX: An extra space
@@ -81,13 +81,13 @@ now: 2nd. edition. All features recreated! Finally arrived the state
Realizing that TeX-FPC is the only pure Pascal distribution,
I decided that my personal preferences are not worthwhile
to clutter up TeX-FPC, since I can reinstall them
- whenever I want them. My wishes are: Don't ignore tailing
+ whenever I want them. My wishes are: Don't ignore trailing
spaces of input lines, don't ignore leading spaces of
the first input line. Don't print extra empty lines on
the terminal, when entering a file interactively. These
regressions leads us back to IBM's fixed length records
and punching cards, when the user could not control the
- length of a line or a punching card.
+ length of a line.
future: Bugs that remain to be fixed:
This one-liner loops:
@@ -96,4 +96,10 @@ future: Bugs that remain to be fixed:
Whatever you enter during error recovery, you cannot convince
TeX to forgive your faux pas and continue processing the rest
of the file.
+2021-02: 3rd edition. Will Senn and Dave Jarvis pointed out some ambiguities
+ in the README file. I'll took their comments and questions to
+ improve the wordings in the README file and some of TeX's error
+ messages.
+ The minimal installation does not care for the .pk fonts. They will
+ be created on demand by the dvi drivers. (dvips and xdvi)