[tex-live] changes to various .ini files (cslatex, xelatex, mllatex)

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Wed Jun 24 19:25:08 CEST 2009


2009/6/24 Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at>:
> Dear all,
>
> I am writing to you because I need to fix problems with the .ini files
> of your packages. The problem is that when building a format that loads
> latex.ltx and latex.ltx is older then 5 years latex.ltx will issue an
> \errormessage.
>
> We have changed fmtutil such that these errors are considered as
> warnings.
>
> The problem is that some .ini files do NOT set
>        \scrollmode
> and thus the format generation stops because tex is waiting for input.
>
I agree with adding \scrollmode to cslatex. I remember it was there
many years ago when I used it with emTeX on OS/2.

> latex.ini itself does
>        \scrollmode
>        \input latex.ltx
> which works out fine.
>
> The problematic .ini files are
>        cslatex.ini
>        mllatex.ini
>        xelatex.ini
> I have changed them to include \scrollmode:
> Index: tex/cslatex/base/cslatex.ini
> ===================================================================
> --- tex/cslatex/base/cslatex.ini        (revision 13940)
> +++ tex/cslatex/base/cslatex.ini        (working copy)
> @@ -48,6 +48,6 @@
>    \catcode`\{=12
>  \fi
>
> -
> +\scrollmode
>  \input latex.ltx
>
> Index: tex/latex/latexconfig/mllatex.ini
> ===================================================================
> --- tex/latex/latexconfig/mllatex.ini   (revision 13940)
> +++ tex/latex/latexconfig/mllatex.ini   (working copy)
> @@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
>  % Thomas Esser, 1998. public domain.
> +\scrollmode
>  \input latex.ltx
> Index: tex/latex/latexconfig/xelatex.ini
> ===================================================================
> --- tex/latex/latexconfig/xelatex.ini   (revision 13940)
> +++ tex/latex/latexconfig/xelatex.ini   (working copy)
> @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
>  % disable the \dump in latex.ltx
>  \expandafter\let\csname saved-dump-cs\endcsname\dump
>  \let\dump=\relax
> +\scrollmode
>  \input latex.ltx
>  %
>  % Allocator for \XeTeXintercharclass values, from Enrico Gregorio
>
>
> Do you agree with these changes and if yes can you please include them
> in your distribution?
>
> After your agreement I will do the changes in the TeX Live repository.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Norbert
>
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> Dr. Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at>        Vienna University of Technology
> Debian Developer <preining at debian.org>                         Debian TeX Group
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