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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:55:44 +0100
To: "Frank Mittelbach" <frank.mittelbach@latex-project.org>
Subject: Re: Base interpreter
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On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:32:51 +0100, Frank Mittelbach wrote:

Hi Frank,

>  > > probably, but then eTeX is the base interpreter for LaTeX these  
> days so
>  > > there is not need to go that far back
>  >
>  > Do we have that stated somewhere except for the comment in ltnews16?
>
> do we have other means? ltnews 17 and 18 also refer to this, but you are  
> right
> i don't think there has been an official announcement (other than via  
> ltx-l perhaps?)

And the official announcement was what I meant. So far we've said we  
encourage people to use at least eTeX but even recently there was a thread  
on ctt where DA said

<quote>
It is good not to require e-TeX (as long as LaTeX does not).  However,
you could start in an e-tex arena and later make compatability layers
for some parts.
</quote>


> but i wouldn't have any problem with simply stating this as being true  
> (from
> now on at least). full stop (should get the latex release out though ...  
> :-( )

Okay and okay (yes we should).

> still waiting for the baby it seems?

Yup, still waiting... Zhenya is at burst level 5 and still growing...


-- 
Morten
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