# platex The bundle provides pLaTeX2e and miscellaneous macros for pTeX and e-pTeX. The bundle is a community edition forked from the original ASCII edition (ptex-texmf-2.5). The GitHub repository - https://github.com/texjporg/platex is now maintained by [Japanese TeX Development Community](http://texjp.org). The original ASCII edition can be obtained from: - https://ctan.org/pkg/ptex-texmf ## Changes from the original ASCII edition See the documents (platex.pdf, pldoc.pdf, platexrelease.pdf) for more information. - Fix macros which are inconsistent with the latest e-pTeX (e.g. \footnote, tabular, \parbox, \underline). - Fix several bugs in pLaTeX2e format and packages. - Add platexrelease.sty. As with the latexrelease package, this package enables us to use the old versions of pLaTeX2e (from 2006/11/10 the ASCII edition). ## Documentation A brief exposition of pLaTeX2e is provided in platex.pdf. The document can be obtained by executing the following commands: platex platex.dtx dvipdfmx platex.dvi The comprehensive explanation of pLaTeX2e source is included in pldoc.pdf. If you are interested in typesetting pldoc.tex yourself, the following commands will be helpful: platex pldocs.ins platex Xins.ins sh mkpldoc.sh dvipdfmx pldoc.dvi ## Character encoding All the text files containing Japanese characters in this repository are encoded in ISO-2022-JP. This is because ISO-2022-JP encoded texts are most suitable for the traditional pTeX engine. ## Repository The bundle is maintained on GitHub: https://github.com/texjporg/platex If you have issues, please let us know from the above page. ## License The bundle may be distributed and/or modified under the terms of the 3-clause BSD license (see [LICENSE](./LICENSE)). ## Release Date 2019-10-01 Japanese TeX Development Community