[tex-live] explicit calls to fmtutil
Vladimir Volovich
vvv at vsu.ru
Thu Feb 6 20:06:43 CET 2003
Hi,
it's a good news that now mostly all 2-line scripts whihc call
(pdfe)tex with different formats were replaced with symlinks.
still, 4 such scripts remain: cslatex, csplain, pdfcslatex,
pdfcsplain.
i have two proposals:
1) remove unneeded explicit calls to fmtutil, i.e. these lines:
cslatex:test -f "`kpsewhich cslatex.fmt`" || fmtutil --byfmt cslatex
csplain:test -f "`kpsewhich csplain.fmt`" || fmtutil --byfmt csplain
pdfcslatex:test -f "`kpsewhich pdfcslatex.fmt`" || fmtutil --byfmt pdfcslatex
pdfcsplain:test -f "`kpsewhich pdfcsplain.fmt`" || fmtutil --byfmt pdfcsplain
since format will be generated on the fly anyway - tex will call
mktexfmt is the fmt is not found.
this can be done immediately, and everything will work fine.
2) provide a possibility to pass command-line parameters to
tex&friends by default (via texmf.cnf or fmtutil.cnf), so that e.g.
-default-translate-file=il2-cs could be passed to tex of the
progname is cslatex.
then, the remaining 4 scripts could be replaced with symlinks too.
Best,
v.
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