Re: texlinks
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 08:33:07PM +0100, Thomas Esser wrote: > > +# History: > > +# Tue Apr 9 22:46:34 CEST 2002, te: > > +# do not create symlinks for cont-??, metafun and mptopdf > > > > This is IMHO a bad idea, if one enables a format he/she wants > > to use it. > > ConTeXt supports these formats by its helper scripts, e.g. texexec and > mptopdf (both wrappers to perl scripts). Thanks for the hint. This is also what I've determind and therefore I've add some scripts which will echo a hint about texexec and mptopdf. Only for users which arn't familiar with ConTeXt. Werner
Re: texlinks
> +# History: > +# Tue Apr 9 22:46:34 CEST 2002, te: > +# do not create symlinks for cont-??, metafun and mptopdf > > This is IMHO a bad idea, if one enables a format he/she wants > to use it. ConTeXt supports these formats by its helper scripts, e.g. texexec and mptopdf (both wrappers to perl scripts). Thomas
texlinks
... /usr/bin/texlinks +# History: +# Tue Apr 9 22:46:34 CEST 2002, te: +# do not create symlinks for cont-??, metafun and mptopdf This is IMHO a bad idea, if one enables a format he/she wants to use it. Werner
Re: 'texconfig', 'texlinks' and multiple platforms
> 'texlinks' are run by 'texconfig' when adding a new format. On a multiple > platform installation of teTeX this isn't behaving as expected / > wanted. When I generate a new format (which is the same for all the > platforms) I expect links from format to engine to be added for _all_ > platforms - not just the one 'texconfig' / 'texlinks' is currently running > on. Since 'texlinks' has a '--multiplatform' switch I expect that the fix > is to add the switch to every occurrence of 'texlinks' in 'texconifg'. > Is that correct? > > I really think this should be the default behaviour of 'texconfig' - or at > least an option. Well, I just have done the suggested change. It will be in the next pretest. Thomas
