[tex-live] PTeX engine
Peter Dyballa
Peter_Dyballa at freenet.de
Sun Jun 27 10:01:25 CEST 2010
Am 27.06.2010 um 05:15 schrieb Norbert Preining:
> On Sa, 26 Jun 2010, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>> I removed the pTeX based formats from the configuration file (since I
>
> Which configuration file?
pete 432 /\ cat /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/web2c/fmtutil-local.cnf
cont-de pdftex cont-usr.tex -8bit *cont-de.ini
cont-de xetex cont-usr.tex -8bit *cont-en.ini
#!cslatex
#!pdfcslatex
#!csplain
#!pdfcsplain
#!mex
#!pdfmex
#!utf8mex
#!mltex
#!mllatex
#!physe
#!phyzzx
#!texsis
#!platex
#!ptex
>
>> don't know exactly what pTeX is meant for I assume it's rather
>> useless,
>
> Well, probably most formats that are shipped for most users, still it
> is not the necessary.
>
> Did you remove xetex format when it was introduced?
No, of course not! I was deeply interested in a TeX variant which
could typeset what I was writing without the need to "translate" my
own writing into something very absurd and surrealistic.
>
> ANyway, did you disable it via the correct method describe in:
> tlmgr man
> section "action generate"
Some weeks ago I invoked 'tlmgr generate fmtutil' and some more (I
think I did not use the options language.def and language.dat.lua
then). Following updates of TL '10 showed the same message about pTeX
(which I hoped would vanish). The invocations seem to have been
successful since:
pete 435 /\ cat /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-var/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
# Generated by /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/universal-darwin/tlmgr on
Fri Jun 25 21:02:37 2010
# $Id: fmtutil-hdr.cnf 13067 2009-05-12 22:04:17Z preining $
# Originally written by Thomas Esser, 1998. Public domain.
#
[...]
#
# from physe:
#! physe pdftex - physe.ini
#
# from phyzzx:
#! phyzzx pdftex - physe.ini
#
# from ptex:
#! ptex ptex - ptex.ini
#! platex ptex language.ptx platex.ini
#
# from t2:
#! cyramstex pdftex language.dat -translate-file=cp227.tcx
*cyramstx.ini
#! cyrtex pdftex language.dat -translate-file=cp227.tcx *cyrtex.ini
#! cyrtexinfo pdftex language.dat -translate-file=cp227.tcx
*cyrtxinf.ini
#
# from tex:
tex tex - tex.ini
#
# from texsis:
#! texsis pdftex - -translate-file=cp227.tcx texsis.ini
#
# from xetex:
xetex xetex language.def -etex xetex.ini
xelatex xetex language.dat -etex xelatex.ini
#
# from xmltex:
xmltex pdftex language.dat *xmltex.ini
pdfxmltex pdftex language.dat *pdfxmltex.ini
cont-de pdftex cont-usr.tex -8bit *cont-de.ini
cont-de xetex cont-usr.tex -8bit *cont-en.ini
#!cslatex
#!pdfcslatex
#!csplain
#!pdfcsplain
#!mex
#!pdfmex
#!utf8mex
#!mltex
#!mllatex
#!physe
#!phyzzx
#!texsis
#!platex
#!ptex
>
> If you edited fmtutil.cnf by hand or keep a local version of it then
> we cannot do anything.
I know that this fails...
--
Mit friedvollen Grüßen
Pete
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