[tex-live] Having a .fmt for different engines

Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl
Fri Jan 5 10:19:08 CET 2007


Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Fre, 05 Jan 2007, Norbert Preining wrote:
>   
>> - put ALL formats in the engine subdirs
>>     
>
> Ok, this is not sooooo good, as mf does not search for web2c/mf/
> unfortunately. Same with mpost. So those have to go either directly into
> web2c or some magic texmf.cnf var must be changed.
>   
this depends on the settings in texmf.cnf:

TEXFORMATS    = .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$engine,}
MFBASES       = .;$TEXFORMATS
MPMEMS        = .;$TEXFORMATS
TEXPOOL       = .;$TEXFORMATS
MFPOOL        = .;$TEXFORMATS
MPPOOL        = .;$TEXFORMATS

should do the trick unless mf and mp don't set $engine

Hans

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