[tex-live] Antomega format and directory structure again...

Thomas Esser te at dbs.uni-hannover.de
Tue Sep 20 20:52:55 CEST 2005


> greatly simplify package installation for average users (because only
> `generic' languages.dat can be edited using most configuration tools,
> like texconfig.

Neither the name languages.dat nor the location "generic" nor the search
path is hard-coded into texconfig&friends.

Example:

  $ fmtutil --showhyphen lamed
  .../texmf-dist/tex/lambda/config/language.dat

  $ fmtutil --showhyphen latex
  .../texmf-dist/tex/generic/config/language.dat

  $ fmtutil --showhyphen cont-en
  .../texmf-dist/tex/context/config/cont-usr.tex

The names language.dat, cont-usr.tex, language.def etc. are defined
in fmtutil.cnf. These files are searched along the search path for
the given format. That's why the result for lamed is different from the
result of latex.

Thomas



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