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Date:         Wed, 3 Nov 93 12:35:15 GMT
From: Simon Kershaw <Simon.Kershaw@SMALLWORLD.CO.UK>
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Subject:      Re: I do not like 'nf' in style names
Status: R


Werenfried Spit
> On Wed, 3 Nov 93 12:02:11 LCL Mike Piff said:
> >
> >%>multiple authors on different locations. Very often in such cases the
> >%>details of the TeX installation differ on the various sites. I hate
> >%>to have to change eg. 'times' to 'nftimes' in the \documentstyle command
> >%>before I can process the latest version my coauthor sent me, and have
> >%>
> >
> >Am I missing something? (Well, probably because I did miss the announcement
> >of NFSS2.)
> >
> Yes, you do: if you have the quoted times.sty (which just inputs nftimes)
> you cannot use an old format on the same site. On our VAX eg I do have
> NFSS2 formats around, but I frequently resort to old formats when I submit
> something; most other users haven't even switched to the new formats.
> Therefore times.sty is just the old fashioned one and when I use NFSS2
> I do have to use nftimes.sty explicitly. As Frank Poppe mentioned, this
> kind of situation is not uncommon.

It's not very sophisticated but my times.sty loks like this:

% interlude to times.sty
% depending on whether you are using the new or old LaTeX
%
\@ifundefined{selectfont}{\input otimes.sty}{\input ntimes.sty}

(where otimes.sty & ntimes.sty are whatever you choose)
Can this sort of thing be used with NFSS2 as well?

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