[tex-live] script for LuaTeX font database updating

[Khaled Hosny]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:44:52PM +0000, T T wrote:
> On 25 February 2010 23:10, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:03:01AM +0100, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> >> On 26 February 2010 Khaled Hosny wrote:
> >>
> >>  > >  > I'd say we shouldn't keep repeating the mistakes of the past just
> >>  > >  > because we can't (or unwilling) to fix the old ones.
> >>  > >
> >>  > > I don't think it's a mistake.  It was a design decision and the way it
> >>  > > was done is reasonable:
> >>  >
> >>  > I consider a "different behaviour based on executable name" a wrong
> >>  > design decision and hence, IMHO, a mistake.
> >>
> >> Then good luck with something like
> >>
> >>   dos2unix --unix2dos
> >
> > $ iconv -f "windows-1256" -t "utf-8"
> >
> > (Just an example of how executable name "hack" is very limited compared
> > to standard practices).
> 
> Following this reasoning further we should use:
> 
>   pdftex -fmt=latex ...

Yes, I do actually propose that (and ConTeXt has been doing this for
ages), I for example strongly disliked the idea of having separate
luatex/lualatex binaries just to change the output format, to me this is
plain stupidity, but whom I to complain, younger than TeX being I.

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer