[tex-live] TEXINPUTS problem
Thomas Esser
te at dbs.uni-hannover.de
Mon Oct 18 08:12:57 CEST 2004
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 10:18:30AM +0900, Akira Kakuto wrote:
> I think there are users who need both
> $TEXMF/web2c/aleph/cont-en.fmt and
> $TEXMF/web2c/pdfetex/cont-en.fmt,
context users don't use
pdfetex \&cont-en
aleph \&cont-en
directly.
They use texexec with options, so texexec could make the base format names
unique. As long as this does not happen, teTeX/context users cannot use
both engines at the same time. teTeX uses fmtutil for format generation
and fmtutil has this restriction about unique format names since ever.
> mainly for that purpose $engine had been introduced.
Oh, I thought that it was introduces as an additional cause for trouble.
Thomas
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