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Questions tagged [e-tex]

{e-tex} is an extended version of TeX, from the NTS project.

An extended version of TeX, which is capable of running as if it were TeX unmodified. ε-TeX has been specified by the LaTeX team as the engine for the development of LaTeX, in the immediate future; as a result, LaTeX programmers may (in all current TeX distributions) assume ε-TeX functionality. More information is available in the ε-TeX manual (texdoc etex).

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Can someone explain what is the 'extended mode'?

During latex compilation with pdflatex+shellescape, the compiler enters: This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012) entering extended mode And stays there for a while, before starting building the pdf output. What is it running…
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Can the extended register pool be used for \newinsert?

After reading egreg's answer to No room for a new \dimen I got this question: The etex package switches to the extended register pool, when the normal one for a register type is exhausted. For a \newinsert one \count, \dimen, \skip, and \box each…
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Package etex Warning : Extended allocation already in use

When I try to compile my document, I get the following warning and errors. Here is the start of my…
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