Ralf Stubner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> For dvips I currently see no >> >>> possibility to have one configuration file specify another one, that >> >>> should also be read. >> >> >> >> Will it read multiple config files, e.g. in TEXMFSYSVAR and >> >> TEXMFSYSCONFIG/TEXMFDIST? >> > >> > I don't now, but I would be surprised if it does. >> >> Debian has patched dvipdfm to read two config files: config and >> fontmaps. I guess this is now unnecessary and predates updmap support >> for dvipdfm. But we could add a papersize file instead. > > Are you talking about dvipdfm or dvips here?
About dvipdfm. I haven't looked at dvips, and it doesn't make sense if both behave different. I guess the patch to texconfig that you wrote is the better approach. If we do it, there's one more thing I'd like to see: texconfig should check whether configuration files shadow each other (maybe just use kpsewhere) and warn the user - either only with texconfig conf, but ideally also when handling this configuration file, and even more ideally also with the dialog frontend. > BTW, does texlive include any of these patches to dvipdfm? No, texconfig is only patched to use sensible-{pager,editor} instead of {more,vi}, and dvipdfm.c isn't patched at all. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)