Joel C. Salomon wrote:
CTXMINIMAL is also not needed?
depends on if it used, not if you go real minimal (more for calling scripts)
But setuptex still sets these. What does it mean, that TEXPOOL &al. aren't needed for luatex/xetex? Does MKII need them?
not related to mkiv/mkii but to engines ... liatex has no pool file, xetex neither, pdftex soon will have no pool file and modern metaposts also lacks such a file
I've been using %var% notation for parts that Windows expands when the variable is defined, but I see UNIX-style $var here and there. Should these be expanded at define-time also, or are these for the programs that use them to understand?
$whatever is kpse syntax (which is some derivate to unix scripting) anyhow. %whatever% will be xpanded by the env var handler, and $whatever not, (on linux it may expand depending on escaping 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------