[fptex] new binaries

Fabrice Popineau Fabrice.Popineau@supelec.fr
Thu, 28 Feb 2002 14:04:49 +0100


* Bernd Raichle <raichle@Informatik.Uni-Stuttgart.DE> writes:

> Thus it is better to use ``balbla/filename'' in your TeX document as
> usually and integrate a more or less intelligent logic in kpathsea
> which uses an existing ZIP file with the name of a directory part if
> there is no such directory.  A given filename ``a/b/c/d/e'' will
> then result in searches for file `e' in `a/b/c/d.zip', for file
> `d/e' in `a/b/c.zip', for file `c/d/e' in `a/b.zip', or file
> `b/c/d/e' in `a.zip', if there is no such directory but a zip
> archive ...

I like the idea, especially when you think about diskspace problems
for the texlive ;-) And it is really simple to implement ! There might
be few things to pay attention to like the new mktexlsr ;-)

Fabrice