[tex-live] script for LuaTeX font database updating

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 26 February 2010 Khaled Hosny wrote:

 > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:03:01AM +0100, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
 > > On 26 February 2010 Khaled Hosny wrote:
 > > 
 > >  > >  > I'd say we shouldn't keep repeating the mistakes of the past just
 > >  > >  > because we can't (or unwilling) to fix the old ones.
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > I don't think it's a mistake.  It was a design decision and the way it
 > >  > > was done is reasonable:
 > >  > 
 > >  > I consider a "different behaviour based on executable name" a wrong
 > >  > design decision and hence, IMHO, a mistake.
 > > 
 > > Then good luck with something like 
 > > 
 > >   dos2unix --unix2dos
 > 
 > $ iconv -f "windows-1256" -t "utf-8"
 > 
 > (Just an example of how executable name "hack" is very limited compared
 > to standard practices).

Sure.  I assume that you propose:

  pdftex --progname=etex
  pdftex --progname=latex
  pdftex --progname=pdflatex
  pdftex --progname=amstex
  ...

instead of

  etex
  latex
  pdflatex
  amstex
  ...

Right?

Regards,
  Reinhard

-- 
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Reinhard Kotucha			              Phone: +49-511-3373112
Marschnerstr. 25
D-30167 Hannover	                      mailto:reinhard.kotucha at web.de
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------