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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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