[tex-live] script for LuaTeX font database updating

[Khaled Hosny]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:37:22AM +0100, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> On 26 February 2010 Khaled Hosny wrote:
> 
>  > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:03:01AM +0100, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
>  > > On 26 February 2010 Khaled Hosny wrote:
>  > > 
>  > >  > >  > I'd say we shouldn't keep repeating the mistakes of the past just
>  > >  > >  > because we can't (or unwilling) to fix the old ones.
>  > >  > > 
>  > >  > > I don't think it's a mistake.  It was a design decision and the way it
>  > >  > > was done is reasonable:
>  > >  > 
>  > >  > I consider a "different behaviour based on executable name" a wrong
>  > >  > design decision and hence, IMHO, a mistake.
>  > > 
>  > > Then good luck with something like 
>  > > 
>  > >   dos2unix --unix2dos
>  > 
>  > $ iconv -f "windows-1256" -t "utf-8"
>  > 
>  > (Just an example of how executable name "hack" is very limited compared
>  > to standard practices).
> 
> Sure.  I assume that you propose:
> 
>   pdftex --progname=etex
>   pdftex --progname=latex
>   pdftex --progname=pdflatex
>   pdftex --progname=amstex
>   ...
> 
> instead of
> 
>   etex
>   latex
>   pdflatex
>   amstex
>   ...
> 
> Right?

We already have --fmt specifically for this (and --output-format in
pdftex/luatex to switch between pdf/dvi).

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer