[tex-live] Building pdflatex

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Sun Mar 25 00:20:27 CET 2018


2018-03-24 23:14 GMT+01:00 Akira Kakuto <kakuto at fuk.kindai.ac.jp>:

> Dear Zdenek,
>
> latex and pdflatex executables exist on Windows
>> only but as a wrapper written in lua which calls
>> pdftex with &formatname.
>>
>
> Actually they are not wrappers, and they don't call
> lua scripts. They use a common dynamic library pdftex.dll.
> Accidentally, their size (1536 bytes) is the same as
> that of script wrappers such as epstopdf.exe.
>

Thank you for explanation. I do not use TeX on Windows and my memory is
apparantly not so good.

>
> Thanks,
> Akira
>
>
> Zdeněk Wagner
> http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
>
>
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