[tex-live] texmf/fmtutil

Akira Kakuto kakuto at fsci.fuk.kindai.ac.jp
Mon Jan 15 01:39:13 CET 2007


Hi Karl,

>     TEXFORMATS = .;$TEXMF/web2c{/$engine,}
> 
> Jonathan and I already made a similar change (for bases and mems too):
>   .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$engine,}
> 
> I guess your version avoids the recursive search, searching only the
> engine dir and the top-level dir.  Hmm.  That does seem better.
> I'll make that change unless some reason not to bubbles up ...

Both are the same (not using // ).
web2c{/$engine,} seems a bit beautiful when expanded:

web2c/{$engine,} ---> web2c/tex, web2c/
web2c{/$engine,} ---> web2c/tex, web2c

Thanks,
Akira


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