[OS X TeX] initex formats and input search paths
Joachim Kock
kock at math.uqam.ca
Wed Mar 24 19:19:52 CET 2004
Hello TeXsperts,
I recently upgraded to OSX 10.3.2 (from 10.2.3), and installed a new
tetex --- thanks a lot, Gerben for your wonderful work.
I seem to notice a change in the way initex finds input files.
I would like to hear some expert comments and advice.
Previously
etex --ini "&latex" "\input somefile.tex"
would detect the &latex not only as indication of what format to
use, but also as indication of which inputs path to search.
Specifically it would search in all tex/latex trees before
searching in tex/generic. (I.e. it uses the LATEXINPUTS variable.)
In the new installation, the same command searches tex/generic
before tex/latex, i.e. it uses TEXINPUTS for iput file searching
in spite of the &latex argument (and hence in my case found a
standard tetex file in tex/generic that I usually override by my
personal patch residing in tex/latex in my user's tree. I am
aware of the fact that I could just place the file in tex/generic
to make a safer override, but this is not the issue here.).
I figured out that I can achieve the correct behaviour by
etex --ini --efmt latex "&latex" "\input somefile.tex"
so the issue is not an urgency.
But I think the old behaviour was logical and I would like to
ask if the change is a design decision or a bug or what...
Of course it might all be a misinterpretation of my part --- there
might be other changes I had made in my old installation that I am
no longer aware of. Unfortunately my old installation no longer
exists...
Cheers,
Joachim.
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