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From: piet@ruuinf (Piet van Oostrum)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: What is the difference between CTeX and CommonTeX?
Keywords: CTeX, CommonTeX
Message-ID: <1203@ruuinf.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 89 08:38:11 GMT
References: <307@laas.laas.fr>
Sender: piet@ruuinf.UUCP
Reply-To: piet@ruuinf (Piet van Oostrum)
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, University of Utrecht, Holland
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In-reply-to: ralph@laas.laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek)

In article <307@laas.laas.fr>, ralph@laas (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.
 `
Common Tex was written manually (I assume) by Pat Monardo. From what I
have seen, he faithfully transcribed the web code to C.

Ctex is generated from the pascal code produced by tangle using a program
web2c, also on the Unix TeX tape. So this should always be up to date.
-- 
Piet van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, University of Utrecht
Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands
Telephone: +31-30-531806. piet@cs.ruu.nl (mcvax!hp4nl!ruuinf!piet)