[tex-live] Having a .fmt for different engines
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Fri Jan 5 02:20:26 CET 2007
>>>>> "Philip" == Philip & Le Khanh <Philip-and-LeKhanh at Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org> writes:
> Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
>>>>>>> "Norbert" == Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> writes:
>>
>>
>> > It would be great to get fmtutil to this point where something
>> > like this is possible, considering that context canbe run with
>> > engines like xetex, aleph, pdftex, whatever, and all under the
>> > name cont-{en,fr,...}
>>
>> Hmm, I don't know whether subdirectories in web2c are a good
>> solution. Having different files with the same name on a system
>> can be confusing too. A few years ago this had been deprecated.
>> Did public opinion change?
> Isn't this why environment variables exist ? I seem to recall
> that when we debated e-TeX methodology, I argued strongly for
> eTeX_Inputs, eTeX_formats and so on, just so that one /could/ have
> duplicate filenames within a single system without there being a
> risk of conflict. Provided that each executable has a matching
> set of logical names / environment variables, one can have as many
> files of the same name as one has executables, with each
> executable "knowing" where to look for its matching files ...
I don't claim that it can't be done be done this way. But I doubt that
it's reasonable. I don't think that it makes sense to change things
in gwTeX only. And as far as TeXLive is concerned I think that it's
quite inappropriate to ask for new features *now*.
But I also do not want that TeX distributions diverge.
I also do not see a great benefit. It will be obsolete in two years
anyway.
Well, if there would be volunteers....
Regards,
Reinhard
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