plain TeX: undefined control sequence \protected

[David Carlisle]

On Thu, 1 Dec 2022 at 15:32, Norbert Preining <norbert at preining.info> wrote:

> > $ tex test
>
> You need to run
>         etex test
> since tex is DEK original TeX, without a lot of extensions that are
> nowadays required by most packages. The "etex" binary contains the
> etex extensions.
>
> Norbert
>

This is true, but perhaps not the best design that miniltx, since the last
release, uses \protected exactly once, just before color.tex carefully
tests if it is defined or not...

David



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