On 2015-09-07 at 16:50:46 +0100, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: > > I always believed that my diploma thesis got lost, we used > > floppies at that time. But I unexpectedly found my LaTeX files > > recently on a CD. They compiled like a charm after more than a > > quarter century. I was quite surprised that it worked perfectly > > with LaTeX-2e, which even didn't exist at that time. There was > > no need to modify any file. > > Did you have the original output to compare with? Does it match > glyph-by-glyph? I'm always interested in concrete examples of TeX's > stability.
I have a printed copy, so I can compare it with the output of pdflatex. But don't expect too much. Hyphenatation depends on fonts. In my thesis I used Knuth's (7 bit) fonts. Because accented glyphs were composed by the \accent primitive, I had to hyphenate many words manually. The reason is that \accent inserts a word boundary and \lefthyphenmin and \righthypenmin are applied to each part of the word. So it's very unlikely that a word with accented characters is hyphenated automatically. A few years later 8-bit fonts became available with "real" accented glyphs. No need to use \accent anymore. This was a big step forward. I must admit that I don't miss the good old days. > > Mojca, of course it's more work to maintain the old and new > > patterns at the same time. But can't the old patterns be simply > > declared as being frozen forever? > > In effect, they already are. The question is what to do with > them. Please keep them. ;) Regards, Reinhard -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reinhard Kotucha Phone: +49-511-3373112 Marschnerstr. 25 D-30167 Hannover mailto:[email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------
