[tex-live] [Fwd: Re: TeXLive Perl + latexmk (windows)]

Lars Madsen daleif at imf.au.dk
Wed Apr 14 16:59:57 CEST 2010


T T wrote:
> On 14 April 2010 02:53, Diederick C. Niehorster <dcnieho at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Having switched from MixTeX to TeX Live very recently, I found TeX
>> Live very easy to use (as is MikTeX for that matter) and I was
>> especially happy with the included perl distributions that made a
>> whole bunch of scripts simply executable
> 
> As a side note, we recently enabled our script wrapping machinery also
> for end user added scripts (either your own or coming from manually
> added packages). Interested folks can get instructions from:
> 
>   runscript --help
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tomek


very interesting

BTW: how come it does not look in the current dir?

to test a script I had to add it to texmf-dist/scripts and update the 
database. Might be useful for users if they could write their own scripts.


-- 

/daleif


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