Hi,
Initex command symlink is removed from tetex-3.0,
since it was apparently a cause of lot of confusion.
Especially since tetex-3.0 switched (again) to
pdfetex for generating latex formats.
Thanks Julian for the info
regards,
junichi
At Mon, 14 Nov 2005 19:11:14 +0000,
Julian Gilbey wrote:
>
> This is what Thomas said about initex as a symlink. So this just
> about does it.
>
> Julian
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Thomas Esser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----
>
> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 19:44:57 +0100
> From: Thomas Esser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Removal of initex?
> To: Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: teTeX forum <tetex@dbs.uni-hannover.de>
>
> > Just a quick question: why is the initex symlink no longer installed?
>
> To get the format right regarding search paths and array sizes, the
> right --progname has to be used. And, even more, the format must be
> build with the same engine that runs it (example: a "tex" based initex
> will generate an unusable "latex" format, since latex is run with the
> pdfetex engine). So by removing "initex", we have removed a common source
> of problems.
>
> People using a tetex based system should use fmtutil for all format
> creations to avoid common problems.
>
> > Unlike virtex, it is described several times in The TeXbook, so is a
> > well-known interface, whereas tex -ini is far less so. Any chance of
> > reviving this (and the other *ini*) symlinks?
>
> The initex stuff is marked as system dependent as far as I know. For
> the reasons given above, I don't think that web2c or teTeX will revert
> the symbolic links for initex.
>
> Thomas
>
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