README file in the Python distribution.
The simplest way to get the rest of the tools in the configuration we
-used is to install the teTeX TeX distribution, version 0.4 or 0.9. More
-information is available on teTeX at <http://www.tug.org/tetex/>.
-This is a Unix-only TeX distribution at this time. Note that the 0.9
-release is still in testing; this documentation release was tested
-with the 9 Feb 1999 release. We'll be upgrading to the final version
-when it becomes available. Except for the PDF generation, there are
-no known problems with using the ("stable") teTeX 0.4 release.
+used is to install the teTeX TeX distribution, versions 0.9 or newer.
+More information is available on teTeX at <http://www.tug.org/tetex/>.
+This is a Unix-only TeX distribution at this time. This documentation
+release was tested with the 1.0.7 release, but there have been no
+substantial changes since late in the 0.9 series, which we used
+extensively for previous versions without any difficulty.
If you don't want to get teTeX, here is what you'll need:
To create PDF files:
- - pdflatex. We used the one in the teTeX 0.9 distribution
- (pdfTeX version 3.14159-13b (Web2C 7.3beta4) at the time of
- this writing). Versions even a couple of patchlevels
- earlier are highly likely to fail due to syntax changes for
- some of the pdftex primitives.
+ - pdflatex. We used the one in the teTeX distribution (pdfTeX
+ version 3.14159-13d (Web2C 7.3.1) at the time of this
+ writing). Versions even a couple of patchlevels earlier are
+ highly likely to fail due to syntax changes for some of the
+ pdftex primitives.
To create PostScript files: