[tex-live] tpm files, function="buildFormat"

Norbert Preining preining at logic.at
Thu Jul 21 02:53:59 CEST 2005


On Mit, 20 Jul 2005, Karl Berry wrote:
>     Hmm, I want to have a separate directory as for the languages. 
> 
> Well, texmf/tex/generic/config contains a few files (pdftex-dvi.tex,
> pdftexconfig.tex, and preload.cfg) besides language.*.dat files.
> 
> I guess the format.*.dat files aren't read by TeX, so that directory
> doesn't make sense.  Indeed, there is no directory that makes sense.
> Making a new top-level dir does not appeal.  How about a subdir of
> web2c, say web2c/fmtconfig?  They aren't really related to web2c either,
> but ...

I leave it now at texmf/formats. If you/Sebastian/whoever decides to
move the files, you are welcome, just tell me. I just wanted to get
everything into the depot.

Best wishes

Norbert

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