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CV Radhakrishnan
cvr at river-valley.org
Fri Jul 30 14:03:19 CEST 2004
>>>>> "David" == David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org> writes:
[...]
CVR> Move the resulting latex.fmt to the location where TeX looks
CVR> for formats, usually it is $TEXMF/web2c. Update your TeX's
CVR> file data base.
David> Actually, you should not do that. Read the licence. It is
David> a bad idea if your version of LaTeX behaves incompatible
David> with everybody else's. If you want to work with preloaded
David> material, you can use the mylatex.ltx file from David
David> Carlisle (instructions are in the file itself).
You're absolutely right, David. However, people do it often,
especially in text processing houses, where they need LaTeX with a
special format for a repetitive job (like academic journals). They
are hardly bothered about other factors.
Best
--
Radhakrishnan
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