Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On 9/19/07, Hans Hagen wrote: >> btw, >> >> pdftex --ini &plain \\pdfoutput=1 \dump >> >> can do the same for you, but as said .. if the minimals would have plain >> formats they would default to dvi anyway so it would be of no help to you > > pdftex.fmt and mpost.mem would be perfectly fine. No need for > plain.fmt (I guess). (And maybe xetex.fmt as a sugar, although that > one might need some additional files.)
pdftex --ini -fmt=pdftex plain.tex \\pdfoutput=1 \dump probably does that, but as said, everyone wants his/her own variant (patterns to start with -) is you know how to use plain, then you also know how to make.call formats -) btw, luatools --make --compile plain luatools --run plain as stub is needed for plain in order to get the lua files loaded (also because we bypass kpse) > It might be extremely simple to generate format the way you describe > above, but perhaps > texexec --make pdftex mpost xetex > could have done the the same job instead (since people are used to it)? sure, but i haven't used plain in ages and using texexec for plain is kind of overkill, so i happily leave that to others to deal with as said, minimals are minimal and should be more minimal instead of adding stuff; the current minimals are way to big (for me) personally i always find it kind of annoying that when i download an achive with binaries, that i also get format files that i don't use (or know) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________