[texhax] MikTeX and web2c

Ulrike Fischer news3 at nililand.de
Wed Apr 1 09:27:34 CEST 2009


Am Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:02:02 +0200 schrieb Reinhard Kotucha:
 
>  > Miktex provides an application _called_ kpsewhich, but it is an
>  > alias of findtexmf:
>  > 
>  > I:>kpsewhich -version
>  > MiKTeX Finder 2.7.2824 (MiKTeX 2.7)
>  > 
>  > I:>findtexmf -version
>  > MiKTeX Finder 2.7.2824 (MiKTeX 2.7)
> 
> Hi Ulrike,
> many thanks.  I assume that if it can be invoked as "kpsewhich", it's
> actually the same thing.  

No it is not. E.g. it doesn't use ls-R files and texmf.cnf. The
kpsewich is really only there so that people that read somewhere
about it get some similar results in miktex.

> Another question:  Does MikTeX's updmap
> supports the --enable option now? 

No. Maps have to be added manually to updmap.cfg (which you get by
initemxf --edit-config-file updmap). 


-- 
Ulrike Fischer 



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