[tex-live] TeX Live Installer -- pregeneration of formats

[Robin Fairbairns]

Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:

>         \input latex.ltx
>     to [pdf]jadetex.ini.  "&latex" can then be removed from fmtutil.cnf.
> 
> If this simple addition caused trouble, it would be easy enough to only
> do the \input if some LaTeX-specific control sequence (say,
> \NeedsTeXFormat) was not defined.
> 
> Is anyone in the world still actually running/using jadetex?

i got a request (or was it an enquiry) from one of our research groups,
who imagined it would help with some documentation system intended to
take on.  so, somewhere there exists something snaring unwary research
students into its use.

r