This is not much of problem but I am curious why I see the following:

When I process some latex source files on a machine which has still
teTeX-1.0.7 installed and another machine with teTe-X-3.0 I see
differences in the output dvi file.  Some of my latex source files
produce exactly the same output dvi file (when run in the same minute,
so that even the time stamp is the same), some files produce different
output dvi files (when viewing with dvitype) but which look the same
in xdvi, and some source files are indeed typeset differently.

When looking at the log file, I see the following changes between
1.0.7 and 3.0:

* pdfeTeX is used instead of TeX
* pdfeTeX from 3.0 is version 3.141592 while TeX from 1.0.7 is version
  3.14159
* newer LaTeX version from 2003-12-01 instead of 1999-12-01.
* newer version of some other macro packages, e.g. inputenc.sty,
  latin1.def, etc.

The CM fonts seem to be the same.  I wonder wether the changes in
output are caused by the different TeX engine or by the new version of
LaTeX macros.


I have always found it a nice feature in TeX to get the same output on
all machines and usually with all versions of TeX, LaTeX, etc.  For
example I have put some effort into the final versions of my thesises
to tweak line and page breaks, to avoid clubs and widows and so on,
and now find that when I reproduce from the sources with newer TeX
installations the output is different.

urs

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