[tex-live] PTeX engine

Peter Dyballa Peter_Dyballa at freenet.de
Sun Jun 27 10:01:25 CEST 2010


Am 27.06.2010 um 05:15 schrieb Norbert Preining:

> On Sa, 26 Jun 2010, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>> I removed the pTeX based formats from the configuration file (since I
>
> Which configuration file?

	pete 432 /\ cat /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/web2c/fmtutil-local.cnf
	cont-de pdftex cont-usr.tex -8bit *cont-de.ini
	cont-de xetex cont-usr.tex -8bit *cont-en.ini
	#!cslatex
	#!pdfcslatex
	#!csplain
	#!pdfcsplain
	#!mex
	#!pdfmex
	#!utf8mex
	#!mltex
	#!mllatex
	#!physe
	#!phyzzx
	#!texsis
	#!platex
	#!ptex


>
>> don't know exactly what pTeX is meant for I assume it's rather  
>> useless,
>
> Well, probably most formats that are shipped for most users, still it
> is not the necessary.
>
> Did you remove xetex format when it was introduced?

No, of course not! I was deeply interested in a TeX variant which  
could typeset what I was writing without the need to "translate" my  
own writing into something very absurd and surrealistic.

>
> ANyway, did you disable it via the correct method describe in:
> 	tlmgr man
> 	section "action generate"

Some weeks ago I invoked 'tlmgr generate fmtutil' and some more (I  
think I did not use the options language.def and language.dat.lua  
then). Following updates of TL '10 showed the same message about pTeX  
(which I hoped would vanish). The invocations seem to have been  
successful since:

	pete 435 /\ cat /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-var/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
	# Generated by /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/universal-darwin/tlmgr on  
Fri Jun 25 21:02:37 2010
	# $Id: fmtutil-hdr.cnf 13067 2009-05-12 22:04:17Z preining $
	# Originally written by Thomas Esser, 1998. Public domain.
	#
	[...]
	
	#
	# from physe:
	#! physe pdftex - physe.ini
	#
	# from phyzzx:
	#! phyzzx pdftex - physe.ini
	#
	# from ptex:
	#! ptex ptex - ptex.ini
	#! platex ptex language.ptx platex.ini
	#
	# from t2:
	#! cyramstex pdftex language.dat -translate-file=cp227.tcx  
*cyramstx.ini
	#! cyrtex pdftex language.dat -translate-file=cp227.tcx *cyrtex.ini
	#! cyrtexinfo pdftex language.dat -translate-file=cp227.tcx  
*cyrtxinf.ini
	#
	# from tex:
	tex tex - tex.ini
	#
	# from texsis:
	#! texsis pdftex - -translate-file=cp227.tcx texsis.ini
	#
	# from xetex:
	xetex xetex language.def -etex xetex.ini
	xelatex xetex language.dat -etex xelatex.ini
	#
	# from xmltex:
	xmltex pdftex language.dat *xmltex.ini
	pdfxmltex pdftex language.dat *pdfxmltex.ini
	cont-de pdftex cont-usr.tex -8bit *cont-de.ini
	cont-de xetex cont-usr.tex -8bit *cont-en.ini
	#!cslatex
	#!pdfcslatex
	#!csplain
	#!pdfcsplain
	#!mex
	#!pdfmex
	#!utf8mex
	#!mltex
	#!mllatex
	#!physe
	#!phyzzx
	#!texsis
	#!platex
	#!ptex

>
> If you edited fmtutil.cnf by hand or keep a local version of it then
> we cannot do anything.

I know that this fails...


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