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Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On 9/19/07, Hans Hagen wrote:
btw,
pdftex --ini &plain \\pdfoutput=1 \dump
can do the same for you, but as said .. if the minimals would have plain formats they would default to dvi anyway so it would be of no help to you
pdftex.fmt and mpost.mem would be perfectly fine. No need for plain.fmt (I guess). (And maybe xetex.fmt as a sugar, although that one might need some additional files.)
pdftex --ini -fmt=pdftex plain.tex \\pdfoutput=1 \dump probably does that, but as said, everyone wants his/her own variant (patterns to start with -) is you know how to use plain, then you also know how to make.call formats -) btw, luatools --make --compile plain luatools --run plain as stub is needed for plain in order to get the lua files loaded (also because we bypass kpse)
It might be extremely simple to generate format the way you describe above, but perhaps texexec --make pdftex mpost xetex could have done the the same job instead (since people are used to it)?
sure, but i haven't used plain in ages and using texexec for plain is kind of overkill, so i happily leave that to others to deal with as said, minimals are minimal and should be more minimal instead of adding stuff; the current minimals are way to big (for me) personally i always find it kind of annoying that when i download an achive with binaries, that i also get format files that i don't use (or know) 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------