Hi, I have a metapost file that begins with "%&latex". I could process this file until teTeX-beta-20021013 (web2c-7.3.8). Now I have to use the commandline option --tex=latex. "%&latex" is ignored and plain TeX is used. Is this desired?
I know that sth. like "%&latex" has been problematic in the past, but it worked for me the last few months even though latex was in fact elatex. A year ago that caused trouble, as far as I remember. BTW, it doesn't work now even with latex=latex. Another problem is that "tex \&latex myfile" doesn't work properly. I think that this is a real bug because Knuth said that it should work. Is it difficult to scan the commandline for a \&<format> and, unless there is no --progname option, set --progname=<format> implicitly? Regards, Reinhard -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reinhard Kotucha Phone: +49-511-27060390 Marschnerstr. 25 D-30167 Hannover mailto:reinhard@;kammer.uni-hannover.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------