[tex-live] Re: antomega [was: Multilingual LaTeX: Greek, English, and UTF-8]

Vladimir Volovich vvv at vsu.ru
Mon Sep 19 11:00:56 CEST 2005


"AK" == Alexej Kryukov writes:

> > These filed are compiler-specific. Don't prohibit access to
> > this directory to other omega and aleph-based formats.
>
> You seem to draw a wrong conclusion. tex// is *always* searched.

 AK> ????
 AK> Let's have a look how search paths for 16-bit formats are 
 AK> currently defined:
 AK> TEXINPUTS.lamed = .;$TEXMF/tex/{lamed,lambda,latex,generic,}//
 AK> TEXINPUTS.lambda = .;$TEXMF/tex/{lambda,latex,generic,}//
 AK> TEXINPUTS.omega = .;$TEXMF/tex/{plain,generic,}//
 AK> TEXINPUTS.aleph = .;$TEXMF/tex/{plain,generic,}//

 AK> As you can see, tex// is *never* searched, and it is correct,
 AK> because otherwise having format-specific directories in tex//
 AK> would have no sense at all.

you are clearly wrong. you did not notice those commas before }
in the TEXINPUTS which cause tex// to be searched.

Best,
v.



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