[tldoc] no more \write18

Staszek Wawrykiewicz staw at gust.org.pl
Tue Oct 20 04:13:04 CEST 2009


On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Karl Berry wrote:

> I have updated all the documentation except Chinese (writing separately
> to those folks) to remove the mentions of the \write18 option in the
> installer [now removed] and the two paragraphs about \write18 in the
> "Present" [now disabled] section.  I added
> \begin{comment}...\end{comment} in the latter case.
> 
> Hopefully my editing and/or recompiling did not corrupt every
> 8-or-more-bit character in the tex and/or pdf and/or html.  Please check
> if you have a chance.
> 
> http://tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Master/texmf/doc/texlive/
> (may not be there for an hour or so, as I write this, I just did the
> commit.)

Please include in your translations also the following changes
(diff -u against rev. 15840 found on svn, as Karl wrote above).
Also install-lnx-main.png should be changed, but I do not know
who made that ("Allow execution of restricted list...." to remove).

--- texlive-en.tex.old	Tue Oct 20 00:56:22 2009
+++ texlive-en.tex	Tue Oct 20 03:56:53 2009
@@ -781,7 +781,7 @@
 \begin{boxedverbatim}
  <P> use letter size instead of A4 by default: [ ]
  <F> create format files:                      [X]
- <E> execution of restricted list of programs: [X]
+% <E> execution of restricted list of programs: [X]
  <D> install font/macro doc tree:              [X]
  <S> install font/macro source tree:           [X]
  <L> create symlinks in standard directories:  [ ]
@@ -808,11 +808,13 @@
   (say) binaries or hyphenation patterns are updated in the
   installation, and thus could end up with incompatible format files.
 
+\begin{comment}
 \item[execution of restricted list of programs:] As of \TL\ 2009,
   execution of a few external programs is allowed by default.  The list
   of allowed programs is given in the \filename{texmf.cnf}; it is very
   small, but still very useful.  See the 2009 news
   (section~\ref{sec:2009news}) for more details.
+\end{comment}
 
 \item[install font/macro \ldots\ tree:] These options allow you to omit
   downloading/installing the documentation and source files present in

--------
Sorry, it is somehow late for me to commit and regenerate other
files on svn.

All the best,

-- 
Staszek Wawrykiewicz
StaW at gust.org.pl




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