On 2003-01-06 18:46:52 +0100, Frank Mittelbach wrote: > nobody hinders you to do that right now: you could in a package > check if eTeX is there and if not print out a rude message and exit. that is > what Martin called "etex aware" i guess. but it is slighly different from No. :-) The trace package is eTeX aware: It offers additional functionality when used with eTeX. People need a reason to switch to eTeX but (and probably much more important) their old documents must still compile. > reservations for the reasons outlined above. but then encouraging people to > provide packages that use eTeX features might be a first step in this > direction. Yes. Best regards Martin -- http://www.tm.oneiros.de/calendar/2003/