[tex-live] Having a .fmt for different engines

Martin Schröder martin at oneiros.de
Fri Jan 5 16:30:02 CET 2007


2007/1/5, Gerben Wierda <Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl>:
> It is friendly to keep the symlink around for external user stuff like
> scripts and makefile's and such. Not a big deal for experts, but there
> are quite a bit of users out there who just use something they do not
> understand and who will be unable to fix if it goes wrong.

And it avoids questions like "Where is pdfelatex?". Users have just
lately been trained to use (pdf)etex, so they can expect it to work.

Best
   Martin


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