# platex The bundle provides pLaTeX2e format and miscellaneous macros for pTeX and e-pTeX. This is a community edition maintained by [Japanese TeX Development Community](http://texjp.org), which forked from the original ASCII edition (ptex-texmf-2.5). ## Repository The bundle is maintained on GitHub: https://github.com/texjporg/platex If you have issues, please let us know from the above page. The original ASCII edition can be obtained from: - https://asciidwango.github.io/ptex/base/sources.html#platex ## Changes from the original ASCII edition The original ASCII edition (pLaTeX2e 2006/11/10) was based on pTeX-3.1.10 and LaTeX2e 2005/12/01. The community edition (this package) has the following advantages: - Fix several bugs in pLaTeX2e format and packages. - Fix macros which are inconsistent with the latest pTeX (e.g. \footnote, tabular, \parbox, \underline). - Support LaTeX2e 2015/01/01 and later versions. - Add platexrelease.sty. As with the latexrelease package, this package enables us to use the old versions of pLaTeX2e (from 2006/11/10 the ASCII edition). See the documents (platex.pdf, pldoc.pdf, platexrelease.pdf) for more information. ## Documentation A brief exposition of pLaTeX2e is provided in platex.pdf. The document can be obtained by executing the following commands: platex platex.dtx dvipdfmx platex.dvi The comprehensive explanation of pLaTeX2e source is included in pldoc.pdf. If you are interested in typesetting pldoc.tex yourself, the following commands will be helpful: platex pldocs.ins platex Xins.ins sh mkpldoc.sh dvipdfmx pldoc.dvi ## Character encoding All the text files containing Japanese characters in this repository are encoded in ISO-2022-JP. This is because ISO-2022-JP encoded texts are most suitable for the traditional pTeX engine. ## License The bundle may be distributed and/or modified under the terms of the 3-clause BSD license (see [LICENSE](./LICENSE)). ## Release Date 2021-06-27 Japanese TeX Development Community