[tex-k] Re: format files

Reinhard Kotucha reinhard@kammer.uni-hannover.de
Fri, 25 Oct 2002 01:38:23 +0200


>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Esser <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de> writes:

    >> Another problem is that "tex \&latex myfile" doesn't work
    >> properly.

    > What exactly is the problem? I just have successfully tried $
    > tex \&latex small2e This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.9)
    > (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/small2e.tex LaTeX2e
    > <2001/06/01> ...  Transcript written on small2e.log

The problem is that the plain TeX search path is used rather the LaTeX
one.  No problem with small2e, but generally you must say
--progname=latex to get the desired result.  And I think that this is
tex-k specific.

Reinhard

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