[tex-live] tl doc formats

David Kastrup dak at gnu.org
Sat Sep 9 16:31:40 CEST 2006


"John R. Culleton" <john at wexfordpress.com> writes:

> Getting back to the question of speed, perhaps pdftex without etex
> should still be maintained, Right now pdftex is just a synonym for
> pdfetex, which is not needed by most users. Without the etex added
> pdftex would be smaller and presumably faster.

The size and speed differences should be negligible.  It is PDFTeX
that causes the speed bump, not eTeX.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum


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