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Article #5990Re: What is the difference between CTeX and CommonTeX?
From: grunwald
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1989 05:54
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1989 05:54
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In article <307@laas.laas.fr> ralph@laas.laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) writes: The subject says it all? There is CTeX which comes with the Unix(tm)-based distribution of TeX. And there is CommonTeX by Pat Mondaros. Both are in C. Both seem to be at version 2.9. Can some say what the differences are? CommonTeX is a hand-translated version of TeX. CTeX is automatically derived from the Web sources (first, from web -> pascal -> C). Ergo, with CTeX, you can apply fixes, etc, easier. It's a bit more standard, and the same Web2C software can be used to generate Metafont & several other tools. I used to use CommonTeX, but switched; CTeX is a little smaller & faster, and it's at 2.93 right now. But CommonTeX is good too. -- Dirk Grunwald Univ. of Illinois grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu
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