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David Kastrup writes:
> Heiko Oberdiek <[log in to unmask]> writes:
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> > On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 12:28:44AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
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> > > Do you know of a single document that would fail if e-TeX was used?
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> > Yes, documents with french.sty will break.
> > If I remember correctly, the reason is a name clash with \beginL.
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> Let's warn them in 2003 and give them one year of time to get to
> grips.
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> If they don't, a compatibility file which does
> \let\beginL\undefined
> \let\beginR\undefined
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> should not be too hard to do. But it would preclude (like now)
> documents using french.sty to have a chance to typeset RL texts in a
> standard manner.
No pb at all for French. I confirm
i have no report bug, as of today, where french.sty fails with eTeX.
--bg
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