#41980: pTeX: request to integrate patches into texlive and retire the teTeX-based distribution ---------------------------+------------------------ Reporter: mojca@… | Owner: takanori@… Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: Port: pTeX texlive | ---------------------------+------------------------ Comment (by mojca@…): This is what Norbert replied:
Short answer from Joshua Tree
since at least 2012 if not late 2011:
Last time when I asked (July 2011), Takanori-san mentioned the following drawbacks of TeX Live for Japanese users: * updmap(-sys) in TeXLive doesn't support KanjiMap extensions.
it does
* xdvi in TeXLive doesn't support (=cannot preview) Japanese DVI which is produced by ptex.
the pxdvi patches are not applicable anymore due to upstream switch to freetype. so still valid. but from what I hear this is not serious
* Due to its license issues, TeXLive doesn't contain pLaTeX 2.09 macros.
??? not sure
* It doesn't contain otf.sty (yet).
it does, since long, and much more.
The current TeX Live is by far sufficient for practically all purposes as far as I know, and the binaries/source fixes loads of old bugs.
http://tutimura.ath.cx/ptexlive/?tlptexlive%A5%EA%A5%DD%A5%B8%A5%C8%A5%EA
for example.
maintained by me, and contains nothing but hiraprop package and binary fixes
Norbert (please forward my email to the tickets, I'm not allowed to post there)
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