[tex-live] Undocumented change in fmtutil --enablefmt/--disablefmt

[Ken Brown]

Hi Norbert,

On 6/16/2015 9:19 AM, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi Ken,
>
> On Tue, 16 Jun 2015, Ken Brown wrote:
>> In TL2014, the commands 'fmtutil-sys --enablefmt cont-en' and
>> 'fmtutil-sys --disablefmt cont-en' would enable/disable both cont-en
>> formats (one with engine pdftex, the other with engine xetex).
>
> Which is not really intuitive ...

I agree.

>> fmtutil [WARNING]: More engines given for format cont-en.
>> fmtutil [WARNING]: Please specify one of the engines: xetex pdftex
>> fmtutil [WARNING]: No changes done.
>>
>> Neither the error message nor the fmtutil help text explains *how*
>> to specify the engine (by using the syntax "format/engine").  I
>
> Is the following output better:
> 	fmtutil [WARNING]: More engines given for format cont-en.
> 	fmtutil [WARNING]: Possible engines: xetex pdftex
> 	fmtutil [WARNING]: Please select one by passing in cont-en/ENGINE
> 	fmtutil [WARNING]: No changes done.

Perfect.

>>    --enablefmt FORMATNAME/ENGINENAME
>>
>> and say that the second form is mandatory if FORMATNAME occurs in
>> fmtutil.cnf with more than one engine.
>
> This part of the help text:
>    --enablefmt FORMATNAME[/ENGINE] enable formatname in config file
>    --disablefmt FORMATNAME[/ENGINE] disable formatname in config file
>                               If more formats share the same name but have
>                               different engines, the ENGINE parameter is
>                               obligatory.
>
>
> Does this satsify your needs?

Perfect again.

Thanks.

Ken