mrdongdonglin / platex

pLaTeX2e and miscellaneous macros for pTeX

platex

The bundle provides pLaTeX2e and miscellaneous macros for pTeX and e-pTeX.

The bundle is a community edition forked from the original ASCII edition (ptex-texmf-2.5). The GitHub repository

• https://github.com/texjporg/platex

is now maintained by Japanese TeX Development Community.

The original ASCII edition can be obtained from:

• https://ctan.org/pkg/ptex-texmf

Changes from the original ASCII edition

See the documents (platex.pdf, pldoc.pdf, platexrelease.pdf) for more information.

• Fix macros which are inconsistent with the latest e-pTeX (e.g. \footnote, tabular, \parbox, \underline).
• Fix several bugs in pLaTeX2e format and packages.
• Add platexrelease.sty. As with the latexrelease package, this package enables us to use the old versions of pLaTeX2e (from 2006/11/10 the ASCII edition).

Documentation

A brief exposition of pLaTeX2e is provided in platex.pdf. The document can be obtained by executing the following commands:

platex platex.dtx
dvipdfmx platex.dvi

The comprehensive explanation of pLaTeX2e source is included in pldoc.pdf. If you are interested in typesetting pldoc.tex yourself, the following commands will be helpful:

platex pldocs.ins
platex Xins.ins
sh mkpldoc.sh
dvipdfmx pldoc.dvi

Character encoding

All the text files containing Japanese characters in this repository are encoded in ISO-2022-JP. This is because ISO-2022-JP encoded texts are most suitable for the traditional pTeX engine.

Repository

The bundle is maintained on GitHub: https://github.com/texjporg/platex

If you have issues, please let us know from the above page.

License

The bundle may be distributed and/or modified under the terms of the 3-clause BSD license (see LICENSE).

Release Date

$RELEASEDATE

Japanese TeX Development Community