Patrick Gundlach wrote:
actually it does not touch the path when the path is ok (i.e. has engine support built in)
... depending on a suitable definition of 'ok'. But what I wanted to say is that I have the feeling that I am losing more and more control of the settings.
hm, you can just set anything you want; the only thing context wants is an engine subpath which is needed because the efmt ofmt fmt etc suffixes were replaced in web2c by one suffix; otherwise you can not run for instance pdfetex and aleph alongside unless using different names for formats which is even more fuzzy and tricky to maintain. I wonder apart from engine, what 'other' controls you think to loose ... since nothing really changed 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------