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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-backgrnd.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-backgrnd.tex index 3612c0209ed..b1ba743417a 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-backgrnd.tex +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-backgrnd.tex @@ -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 |