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@@ -8,17 +8,17 @@ things that one might wish had been done differently, or indeed
implemented at all.
<p/>The NTS project set out to produce an advanced replacement for
TeX, to provide a basis for developing such modifications: this
-&ldquo;New Typesetting System&rdquo; would share Knuth&rsquo;s aims, but would
+&#8220;New Typesetting System&#8221; would share Knuth&#8217;s aims, but would
implement the work in a modern way taking account of the lessons
learned with TeX. While a first demonstrator NTS did
-appear, it wasn&rsquo;t practically useful, and the project seems no longer
+appear, it wasn&#8217;t practically useful, and the project seems no longer
active.
<p/>In parallel with its work on NTS itself, the project developed
-a set of extensions that can be used with a (&ldquo;true&rdquo;) TeX system.
+a set of extensions that can be used with a (&#8220;true&#8221;) TeX system.
Such a modified system is known as an e-TeX system, and the concept
has proved widely successful. Indeed, current TeX distributions
are delivered with most formats built with an e-TeX-based system (for
-those who don&rsquo;t want them, e-TeX&rsquo;s extensions can be disabled, leaving
+those who don&#8217;t want them, e-TeX&#8217;s extensions can be disabled, leaving
a functionally standard TeX system).
<p/>The extensions range from the seemingly simple (increasing the number
of available registers from 256 to 32768) through to extremely subtle
@@ -31,5 +31,8 @@ work, but not as well as on an e-TeX system. The
<a href="FAQ-LaTeX3.html">LaTeX team</a> has announced that future LaTeX
packages (specifically those from the team, as opposed to those
individually contributed) may require e-TeX for optimum performance.
+<dl>
+<dt><tt><i>e-TeX</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/e-tex.zip">systems/e-tex</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/e-tex/">browse the directory</a>)
+</dl>
<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=etex">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=etex</a>
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