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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2009-03-22 18:49:54 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2009-03-22 18:49:54 +0000
commitff4acfe1a54038e4ca4f9216d0098b03a46b6cdf (patch)
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parent6b2f87f893aebb79ff1223fd7133255a4fe05884 (diff)
missed WB macro definition, no elatex these days, modify attribution per Phil Taylor
git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@12486 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH ETEX 1 "7 January 2007" "pdftex 1.40" "Web2C @VERSION@"
+.TH ETEX 1 "22 March 2009" "pdftex 1.40" "Web2C @VERSION@"
.\"=====================================================================
.if n .ds MF Metafont
.if t .ds MF M\s-2ETAFONT\s0
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@
.if n .ds AX AmSTeX
.if t .ds AY \fRA\\h'-0.1667m'\\v'0.20v'M\\v'-0.20v'\\h'-0.125m'S\fP\*(LX
.if n .ds AY AmSLaTeX
+.if n .ds WB Web
+.if t .ds WB W\s-2EB\s0
.\"=====================================================================
.SH NAME
etex, einitex, evirtex \- extended TeX
@@ -31,7 +33,7 @@ etex, einitex, evirtex \- extended TeX
.SH DESCRIPTION
Run the e-\*(TX typesetter on
.IR file ,
-usually creating
+by default creating
.IR file.dvi .
If the file argument has no extension, ".tex" will be appended to it.
Instead of a filename, a set of e-\*(TX commands can be given, the first
@@ -61,30 +63,7 @@ several new primitives are added that facilitate (among other things)
bidirectional typesetting.
.PP
An extended mode format is generated by prefixing the name of the
-source file for the format with an asterisk (*). Such formats are
-often prefixed with an `e', hence
-.B etex
-as the extended version of
-.B tex
-and
-.B elatex
-as the extended version of
-.BR latex .
-However,
-.B eplain
-is an exception to this rule.
-.PP
-The
-.B einitex
-and
-.B evirtex
-commands are e-\*(TX's analogues to the
-.B initex
-and
-.B virtex
-commands. In this installation, they are symbolic links to the
-.B etex
-executable. These symbolic links may not exist at all.
+source file for the format with an asterisk (*).
.PP
e-\*(TX's handling of its command-line arguments is similar to that of
the other \*(TX programs in the
@@ -420,7 +399,8 @@ file will be invalid.
.BR mf (1).
.\"=====================================================================
.SH AUTHORS
-e-\*(TX was developed by Peter Breitenlohner (and the NTS team).
+e-\*(TX was developed by Peter Breitenlohner and the NTS team; Peter
+later continued its development outside of the team.
.PP
\*(TX was designed by Donald E. Knuth,
who implemented it using his \*(WB system for Pascal programs.