Please correct me if i am wrong. If kpsewhich is not used and replaced by mtxrun why is it included in context minimals?? Doubt: Inside texexec file i find this line: mtxrun --usekpse --execute texexec "$@" Suppose say i type the following command. texexec --pdf sample.tex It will somehow call mtxrun which in turn will invoke 'texmfstart.rb' i guess. The above command somehow invokes 'pdftex' which processes sample.tex file. But pdftex is a binary how does it come to know about location of fonts and all other information unless there is some interface that is hard coded???
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 20:34, Julius Canute wrote:
Please correct me if i am wrong. If kpsewhich is not used and replaced by mtxrun why is it included in context minimals??
If nothing else it is included because of MKII. It is entirely replaced only in MKIV. I'm not sure whether MKII can be convinced to use mtxrun or not, but at least under windows pdfTeX binary is somehow linked to kpathsea and I'm almost sure that running pdfTeX would not run without kpathsea. (But I may be wrong.) Mojca
On 22-1-2011 9:00, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 20:34, Julius Canute wrote:
Please correct me if i am wrong. If kpsewhich is not used and replaced by mtxrun why is it included in context minimals??
If nothing else it is included because of MKII. It is entirely replaced only in MKIV.
I'm not sure whether MKII can be convinced to use mtxrun or not, but at least under windows pdfTeX binary is somehow linked to kpathsea and I'm almost sure that running pdfTeX would not run without kpathsea. (But I may be wrong.)
indeed, pdftex and mpost need the kpse lib, as does the previous texmfstart; texexec still uses it (and caches lookups) but could proably do without now (in a mkiv minimals only kpse* is not needed) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
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