Hans Hagen said this at Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:41:27 +0200:

so, the question now is, does "ctxtools --make" work on the mac

As far as I know, only after installing rexml, which though easy enough for me, doesn't make it very Mac-user friendly, and even less attractive for Gerben's installer, I suspect. At least, that's how it worked out for me. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Hi I'm currnelty trying all kind of things on linux and mac, but somehow i got the feeling that either engine support in the unix versions is broken or that it' ssimply not implemented kpsewhich --engine=pdfetex cont-en.fmt works ok on windows but not on unix; unfortunately we cannot use pdfetex -fmt=pdfetex/cont-en either; this works ok windows, but not on unix; this is why it's nearly impossible to get engine support working on unix. I know that TE is not willing to support the engine structure but kpse should at least work the same on all platforms. One workaround is that I force the engine and format vars inside texexec (kind of misusing the kpse feature that a preset emv var is not overloaded, which in the case of engin edoes not happen anyway). This seems to work. Quite a waste of time. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

Adam Lindsay wrote:

Hans Hagen said this at Fri, 22 Apr 2005 00:18:38 +0200:

...

kpsewhich --engine=pdfetex cont-en.fmt

works ok on windows but not on unix; unfortunately we cannot use

Argh, it kind of does, but it kind of doesn't. This is my tetex/gwTeX result: % kpsewhich --engine=pdfetex cont-en.fmt /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/pdfetex/cont-en.fmt % kpsewhich --engine=xetex cont-en.fmt /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/xetex/cont-en.fmt

Which is pretty much right!

But it sounds like you're running into the weird inconsistency I found when I was trying to get the engine paths right for xetex. It worked, but didn't, and I felt clueless and frustrated.

Maddening.

Indeed. I'm surpised that you get some path returned because i don't, whatever I try. I just uploaded an alpha release that works on my machines (win,lin,mac) in the minimals. Tricks used: - force texformats env var if not set (based on kpse value) - fix the texformats path if needed (add engine to it) - force engine env var - put formats in the right place (in the new ctxtools --make implementation i don't handle latex yet) in order to catch more of those strange border cases and differences between distributions i'll add more of such hacks (probably also write 18 stuff) ctxtools --make --all --xetex ctxtools --make --all --aleph ctxtools --make --all --pdfetex and alike all work (--engine=pdfetex also works as do funny abbreviations) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------