Monday, October 21, 2002 Olaf Weber wrote: OW> Hans Hagen writes: >> At 08:40 PM 10/20/2002 +0200, Olaf Weber wrote: >>> Hans Hagen writes:
>>>> personally i think that gamma should just use a cont-* file, but with >>>> an ofmt extension; where etex can be distinguished by suffix, omega >>>> cannot, which is a bad thing since now one gets format clashes; >>> This is an interesting idea, and one I'd be willing to impose on Omega. >> Thanks! It would help a lot. OW> Still, for my peace of mind I'd like to know a bit more of the OW> background, and why getting Omega to use a different suffix will help OW> so much. (And does this mean that pdftex and pdfetex should be OW> modified as well?) e-TeX already uses the .efmt extension when running in extended mode. The reason to use different extensions is to solve easily the problem of re-naming formats when running with different engines (pdfLaTeX vs Lamba vs eLaTeX vs LaTeX, for example). While it may be interesting to find new names for old formats under new engines, it's really unnecessary (for example ConTeXt has a preliminary support for Omega as its engine; the ConTeXt format built on Omega has to be called Gamma, or you can't have Knuth's or pdf-TeX *and* Omega formats at the same time). -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ref.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
