[tex-live] How to do the following?

[David Kastrup]

Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk> writes:

> OK, I'll test, but your scenario reads oddly to me :
> why would you use the verb "LaTeX", which explicitly
> loads the LaTeX format, when you want to load another
> format ?

Because I want to use something like "mylatex.ltx" in order to shorten
the load time, while still getting the search paths and, necessarily,
executable used by LaTeX itself.

> Would it not be more sensible to invoke it
> as "TeX" which (provided that the implementation hasn't
> meddled) will invoke Virtex by default, and Initex if
> a suitable switch (e.g., "/I", "-ini", etc) is provided ...

This gives a different search path and a different executable than the
"latex" command.  Useless.

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