[OS X TeX] block comment

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 17.11.2005 um 17:51 schrieb George Gratzer:

> So a logical question to raise: if I just want to LaTeX ( I do not 
> want  mptopdf and mfpic, whatever they are), can I set my system not 
> to include supp-mis.tex ?
>

Yes: use latex.

Sorry, I don't know the intrinsics for that, I only remember that when 
I first used CMacTeX's pdftex or pdflatex on Mac OS 9 two ConTeXt files 
always were included for no obvious reason:

	texmf/tex/context/base/supp-pdf.tex
	texmf/tex/context/base/supp-mis.tex

Of course I searched for that and found pdftex.def which includes 
supp-pdf.tex, if it exists on the system. There is some old 
relationship between ConTeXt's Hans Hagen and pdfTeX's Han The Thanh. 
Indeed I started to use pdfTeX when I saw a demo of ConTeXt with 
microtype features and pdfTeX. Maybe the pdfTeX folks just re-use code 
that was developed for ConTeXt, to understand the ConTeXt MAP files? Or 
to provide PDF \specials? TeX isn't my native language ...

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   Pete

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