Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
What is the difference between platex and latex?
platex is a latex binary that can handle Japanese characters (in EUC,
JIS or SJIS) which is derived from the original latex. The platex system
comes with latex binary as well, but the search path for platex set in
web2c/texmf.cnf of the platex distribution is independent from the one
for latex:
> TEXINPUTS.latex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{latex,generic,}//
> TEXINPUTS.platex = .;$TEXMF/{ptex/{platex,generic,}, \
tex/{latex,generic,}}//
Therefore, latex fails to find out the default directory of Japanese
standard classes. platex must be used instead.
Koji
