Re: latex linked to pdfetex ?

> * Robin Fairbairns on Tue, Dec 14, 2004:
> >> most of them looks ok, but latex is linked to pdfetex. Is this really
> >> correct?
> >
> > indeed, as advertised.  the latex project suggested doing away with
> > "tex", making everything e-tex based, and the texlive people realised
> > we can do with nothing but pdfetex.
> 
> Hmm, for me the only drawback is that I haven't got it to work
> with LilyPond (music notation); or, to be more precise, I got
> LilyPond to work by linking latex to tex in texmf.cnf (otherwise
> I just use pdflatex) but not the so called lilypond-book
> interface that integrates notation into LaTeX-documents.

lilypond probably uses a broken test for the presence of pdftex.

the *only* satisfactory test is that in ifpdf.sty (or one of its
derivatives).  see

http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=ifpdf