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
is now maintained by Japanese TeX Development Community.
The original ASCII edition can be obtained from:
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 and ascmac.sty.
- 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).
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
All the text files containing Japanese characters in ptex-texmf are encoded in ISO-2022-JP. This is because ISO-2022-JP encoded texts are most suitable for the traditional pTeX engine.
The bundle is maintained on GitHub: https://github.com/texjporg/platex
If you have issues, please let us know from the above page.
The bundle may be distributed and/or modified under the terms of the 3-clause BSD license (see LICENSE).
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