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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-% $Id: faq-backgrnd.tex,v 1.5 2010/02/08 22:24:15 rf10 Exp $
+% $Id: faq-backgrnd.tex,v 1.10 2011/02/14 20:53:28 rf10 Exp $
\section{The Background}
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ that you are likely to encounter:
long-since-obsolete (since 1994) version (cf.~%
\Qref[question]{What is \LaTeXe{}?}{Q-latex2e} for more information).
- \item[\CONTeXT{} (executable: \ProgName{texexec})]
+ \item[\CONTeXT{} (executable: \ProgName{texmfstart})]
See
\Qref[question]{What is \CONTeXT{}?}{Q-context}.
@@ -321,8 +321,10 @@ executable---probably \ProgName{latex} or \ProgName{pdflatex}---to
produce an output file. The executable came bundled as part of a
\TeX{} distribution such as \miktex{}, which includes various other
\TeX{}-related components.
-\LastEdit{2009-06-11}
+This question is also covered in a page on the \acro{TUG} site,
+``\href{http://tug.org/levels.html}{the Levels of \tex{}}''.
+\LastEdit{2010-12-08}
\Question[Q-triptrap]{How can I be sure it's really \TeX{}?}
@@ -341,7 +343,7 @@ of tests to check that his software runs: those who port \TeX{} and
its friends to other platforms do indeed perform such tests.
Knuth, however, provides a `conformance test' for both \TeX{}
-(\texttt{trip}) and \MF{} (\texttt{trap}).
+(\Package{trip}) and \MF{} (\Package{trap}).
%%% Is there a similar one for \MP{}?
He characterises these as `torture tests': they are designed not to
check the obvious things that ordinary typeset documents, or font
@@ -349,12 +351,13 @@ designs, will exercise, but rather to explore small alleyways off the
main path through the code of \TeX{}. They are, to the casual reader,
pretty incomprehensible!
-Once an implementation of \TeX{} has passed its \texttt{trip} test, or an
-implementation of \MF{} has passed its \texttt{trap} test, then it may
-in principle be distributed as a working version. (In practice, any
-distributor would test new versions against ``real'' documents or
-fonts, too; \texttt{trip} and \texttt{trap} don't actually test any
-for real world problems.
+Once an implementation of \TeX{} has passed its \Package{trip} test, or
+an implementation of \MF{} has passed its \Package{trap} test, then it
+may in principle be distributed as a working version. (In practice,
+any distributor would test new versions against ``real'' documents or
+fonts, too; while \Package{trip} and \Package{trap} test bits of
+pathways within the program, they don't actually test for any real
+world problem.)
\Question[Q-y2k]{Are \TeX{} and friends Y2K compliant?}
@@ -473,7 +476,7 @@ detail (for example, its support for % ! line break
but its greatest impact to date has been in the area of
\acro{PDF} output.
-\PDFTeX{} started as a topic for H\`an \The{} Th\`anh's Master's~thesis,
+\PDFTeX{} started as a topic for H\`an \The {} Th\`anh's Master's~thesis,
and seems first to have been published in \TUGboat{} 18(4), in 1997
(though it was certainly discussed at the \acro{TUG}'96 conference in
Russia).
@@ -620,6 +623,7 @@ Dutch, German, French, or Italian, and to use different typesetting
engines (\PDFTeX{}, Xe\TeX{}, Aleph and \LuaTeX{}) without
changing the user interface. \CONTeXT{} is developed rapidly, often in
response to requests from the user community.
+\LastEdit{2010-12-08}
%%% RF's original version
%% developed by Hans Hagen, originally to
@@ -723,40 +727,6 @@ also a mailing list~--- sign up, or browse the list archives, via
\item[\nothtml{\rmfamily}\Eplain{} distribution]\CTANref{eplain}
\end{ctanrefs}
-\Question[Q-lollipop]{What is Lollipop?}
-
-Lollipop is a macro package written by Victor Eijkhout; it was used in
-the production of his book ``\emph{\TeX{} by Topic}'' (see
-\Qref[question]{\AllTeX{} Tutorials}{Q-ol-books}). The manual says of
-it:
-\begin{quote}
- Lollipop is `\TeX{} made easy'. Lollipop is a macro package that
- functions as a toolbox for writing \TeX{} macros. It was my
- intention to make macro writing so easy that implementing a fully
- new layout in \TeX{} would become a matter of less than an hour for
- an average document, and that it would be a task that could be
- accomplished by someone with only a very basic training in \TeX{}
- programming.
-
- Lollipop is an attempt to make structured text formatting available
- for environments where previously only \WYSIWYG{} packages could be
- used because adapting the layout is so much more easy with them than
- with traditional \TeX{} macro packages.
-\end{quote}
-
-The manual goes on to talk of ambitions to ``capture some of the
-\LaTeX{} market share''; it's a very witty package, but little sign of
-\htmlignore
-it taking over from \LaTeX{} is detectable\dots{}\@
-\endhtmlignore
-\begin{htmlversion}
-it taking over from \LaTeX{} is detectable\dots{}
-\end{htmlversion}
-An article about Lollipop appeared in \TUGboat{} 13(3).
-\begin{ctanrefs}
-\item[\nothtml{\rmfamily}Lollipop distribution]\CTANref{lollipop}
-\end{ctanrefs}
-
\Question[Q-texinfo]{What is Texinfo?}
Texinfo is a documentation system that uses one source file to produce