[tex-live] tu-clash

[Bob Tennent]

 >|It's hard to believe that you need a 2.09 format to be honest.
 >|It would be simpler just to add any macros that need adding to a
 >|`latex209.cfg`
 >|and use latex as normal. If the file really needed a 1980's tex
 >|distribution
 >|then you'd need to pull out an archived tex tree from that date, but if
 >|it runs
 >|with a current texlive but just using a 2.09 format it's almost certainly
 >|easier
 >|to use standard latex and if there are any macros where the 2.09
 >|emulation isn't good
 >|enough, to over-ride them in latex209.cfg.

It's a 650-page book with rather complex use of fonts. It's
far easier to use latex209 than to try to do all that.