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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-etex.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-etex.html index cc73f99bb87..67f5fd63713 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-etex.html +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-etex.html @@ -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 -“New Typesetting System” would share Knuth’s aims, but would +“New Typesetting System” would share Knuth’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wasn’t practically useful, and the project seems no longer +appear, it wasn’t practically useful, and the project seems no longer active.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 (“true”) TeX system. +a set of extensions that can be used with a (“true”) 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’t want them, e-TeX’s extensions can be disabled, leaving +those who don’t want them, e-TeX’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> </body> |