Jonathan D Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JDP> Don't ask me why 'cus I don't know, but my fearless leader has decided JDP> he needs an ancient version of LaTex on his spiffy new Debian laptop. JDP> JDP> Since this is from Dec 1989, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess I JDP> can't get a .deb for it :)
(This kind of predating that whole Linux thing, yeah. :-) JDP> Anyone have a clue where I could find source, and what issues I might JDP> run into. Right Answer: LaTeX2e is intended to be a mostly-compatible successor to LaTeX 2.09. LaTeX is one of those bits of software that's actually held up to a promise of version compatibility; provided you don't do anything too arcane, you can try just running your normal latex over the input file. It'll spew warnings about "compatibility mode", but that's what you expect. (I know that LaTeX2e isn't 100% compatible with LaTeX 2.09, but I don't entirely know what the differences are. LaTeX2e added some commands not present in 2.09, so there's a possibility of a namespace conflict. I think the other issues can only come up if the author of the document was a 4th-level TeXpert or higher.) MIT Answer: Up until a couple of years ago, Athena's default latex installation was based on LaTeX 2.09. So if you can find a Linux box around with the SIPB installation of Red Hat 4.2/Athena 8.0 on it, it should have a "normal" LaTeX 2.09. (Then upgrade it to something more modern!) -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
