Bug#122357: tetex-extra: `tex -ini -fmt=platex -progname=platex platex.ini' failed
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 10:07:02PM +0100, Artur R. Czechowski wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 01:22:32PM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > Incidentally, why do we have/need a separate version of LaTeX for
> > typesetting in Polish? Is Babel inadequate?
> Good question.
> I'm using babel and it is sufficient for me. Sometimes I received
> files which required platex, that's why I also have it.
> I'm not a TeXpert so I've asked people from GUST (Polish Tex Users Group)
> about platex and I received information that platex by default gave a results
> typografically conforming to polish standards (paragraph indenting, dots betwen
> number and title in \*section{}, etc...)
>
> I send a Cc: of this letter to the GUST mailing list. Maybe any more
> experienced member would provide more detailed information.
It would probably be better for everyone if the PLaTeX changes were to
be incorporated into a package, so that one could run LaTeX on the
following document and get the same result as one would from PLaTeX:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{polish}
...
or perhaps
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{platex}
...
In that way, we could do away with the complexities of having Yet
Another Slightly Different Format.
Julian
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