Re: more on margin kerning

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Ulrich Dirr wrote:

> very much about miktex myself. I was forced to switch because fptex isn't
> developed any further by Fabrice. I'd preferred fptex because it was more
 > tetex like than miktex. Unfortunately I'm not a programmer and don't know
 > how to compile successfully pdftex on a windows system. But maybe you can
 > try to run a standalone version of pdftex on
 > http://pdftex.sarovar.org/djgpp/ (the latest sources of pdfTeX can be found
 > at http://pdftex.sarovar.org/src). I've attached a how-to by Thanh. When
 > you run this version it shows you a version number which should not confuse
 > you -- it's the same as 1.21a actually.

originally tex live was built out of tetex, fptex and gwtex

currently we see these three distribitions go their own way; gwtex is much more 
that tetex, i.e. it ships with more tex goodies and gerbens installer provides 
more tools as well asn an update path; fptex has become xemtex and is now an 
integrated environment;

the gwtex binaries are mostly similar to the ones in tetex and can be used with 
any web2c tree, and the same is true for the binaries that ship with xemtex; 
there will be places to download the win binaries soon; miktex is a option for 
windows users as well (unless you want to share trees etc on multiple platforms)

the djgpp version works ok too but is slower

btw, fabrice's (fptex) tex binaries are optimized for running mp from within tex 
  and provide a few goodies not found in other web2c variants

(the new versions of texexec & texutil will no longer depend on ini files and 
such and will hopefully run smoothly with miktex as well as web2c variants)

Hans

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