[tex-live] TEXINPUTS problem
Hans Hagen
pragma at wxs.nl
Mon Oct 18 09:16:00 CEST 2004
Akira Kakuto wrote:
>>all format names unique, no subdir:
>> -TEXFORMATS = .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$engine,}//
>> +TEXFORMATS = .;$TEXMF/web2c
>
>
> I think there are users who need both
> $TEXMF/web2c/aleph/cont-en.fmt and
> $TEXMF/web2c/pdfetex/cont-en.fmt,
indeed
> mainly for that purpose $engine had been introduced.
when dropping the different suffixes in favor of one the engine subpath
was introduced as a means to distinguish formats; now dropping the
{$engine,} part sounds strange to me; it also sort of renders future
discussions about changes in tds/web2c useless
so, i vote against dropping {#engine,}
Hans
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