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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-triptrap.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-triptrap.html index b08faeb6596..c57bf09c5cc 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-triptrap.html +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-triptrap.html @@ -1,19 +1,19 @@ <head> <title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label triptrap</title> </head><body> -<h3>How can I be sure it’s really TeX?</h3> +<h3>How can I be sure it’s really TeX?</h3> <p/>TeX (and Metafont and MetaPost) are written in a - <a href="FAQ-lit.html">‘literate’ programming</a> language called Web + <a href="FAQ-lit.html">‘literate’ programming</a> language called Web which is designed to be portable across a wide range of computer systems. How, then, is a new version of TeX checked? <p/>Of course, any sensible software implementor will have his own suite of tests to check that his software runs: those who port TeX and its friends to other platforms do indeed perform such tests. -<p/>Knuth, however, provides a ‘conformance test’ for both TeX +<p/>Knuth, however, provides a ‘conformance test’ for both TeX (<code>trip</code>) and Metafont (<code>trap</code>). -He characterises these as ‘torture tests’: they are designed not to +He characterises these as ‘torture tests’: they are designed not to check the obvious things that ordinary typeset documents, or font designs, will exercise, but rather to explore small alleyways off the main path through the code of TeX. They are, to the casual reader, @@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ pretty incomprehensible! <p/>Once an implementation of TeX has passed its <code>trip</code> test, or an implementation of Metafont has passed its <code>trap</code> 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; <code>trip</code> and <code>trap</code> don’t actually test any +distributor would test new versions against “real” documents or +fonts, too; <code>trip</code> and <code>trap</code> don’t actually test any for real world problems. <p/><p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=triptrap">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=triptrap</a> </body> |