[tex-live] Having a .fmt for different engines
Hans Hagen
pragma at wxs.nl
Fri Jan 5 17:40:08 CET 2007
Gerben Wierda wrote:
> On Jan 5, 2007, at 15:13, Peter M�nster wrote:
>
>
>> On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Norbert Preining wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> However, the question that remains is whether this is a change that
>>>> we want to make at this time.
>>>>
>>>> Personally, I'd say yes (once people have tested it!); I think it's
>>>> harmless to "normal" users, while allowing more advanced/complex
>>>>
>>> Add me to the Yes side.
>>>
>> Me too!
>>
>> At the same time, one could drop all references to pdfetex (symlink in
>> bin-dir, pool-files and engine-subdir), or are these still needed?
>>
>
> It is friendly to keep the symlink around for external user stuff like
> scripts and makefile's and such. Not a big deal for experts, but there
> are quite a bit of users out there who just use something they do not
> understand and who will be unable to fix if it goes wrong.
>
i'm not sure how well that works with pool files (i remember problems)
Hans
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