David Kastrup writes: > Heiko Oberdiek <[log in to unmask]> writes: > > > On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 12:28:44AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > > > > > Do you know of a single document that would fail if e-TeX was used? > > > > Yes, documents with french.sty will break. > > If I remember correctly, the reason is a name clash with \beginL. > > Let's warn them in 2003 and give them one year of time to get to > grips. > > If they don't, a compatibility file which does > \let\beginL\undefined > \let\beginR\undefined > > 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