updating ConTeXt to latest on openbsd-current Q #2
hi there, my second question, is more like asking for pointers... where can i read more about fmtutil, and how come that context does not use it when (i assume) pdftex does? --\startquote--------------------------------------------------- Cleanup fmtutil Optionally, you can remove ConTeXt support from teTeX's configuration, because ConTeXt does not use fmtutil. Using # fmtutil-sys --edit you can comment out the lines for metafun,cont-en, and mptopdf And you can use # cd /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-var/web2c && rm -f cont-en.* metafun.* mptopdf.* to remove the old (fmtutil-generated) formats. --\stopquote---------------------------------------------------- -f -- the best way out of a difficulty is through it.
Hi there! frantisek holop wrote:
my second question, is more like asking for pointers...
where can i read more about fmtutil, and how come that context does not use it when (i assume) pdftex does?
The following comes from a thread in december about this same issue. The full thread is here: http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20051213.100910.f7bb2779.en.html Posted by Taco Hoekwater (hey, that's me!): ------- Here's what happened. In the "really old" days, formats ended with .fmt, like plain.fmt. When etex and omega came around, they identified themselves by having e.g. plain.efmt (note the extra "e"), so that they could coexist happily. However, this cluttered the build system quite a bit, so recently it was decided to drop the extra characters. At that time, it was understood that there would be an extra subdirectory below texmf/web2c to differentiate between the different engines (at least, that is what Hans and I gathered from the discussion). So you would have, e.g. "web2c/pdfetex/cont-en.fmt" as well as "web2c/omega/cont-en.fmt". But it turned out that since LaTeX has separate names for the different formats anyway (Lambda etc.), ConTeXt was the only client of this new feature, and Thomas Esser decided that it was not worth the effort to support these extra directories. However, for ConText it would be very, very unwieldy to have cont-pdfetex-en.fmt, cont-xetex-en.fmt, cont-aleph-en.fmt etc., each six or seven times. And because context is always called through texexec, the latest texexec's implement this engine subdirectory functionality for you. Finally, what goes wrong: unless you either delete the teTeX-supplied context formats or change texmf.cnf, the old formats will be found first by kpathsea. ------------
hmm, on Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 10:57:57PM +0100, Taco Hoekwater said that
Finally, what goes wrong: unless you either delete the teTeX-supplied context formats or change texmf.cnf, the old formats will be found first by kpathsea.
excellent explanation. so is it either or? is it enough to change texmf.cnf _or_ delete the old format files? from the wiki: ---------------------%<-------------------------- Cleanup fmtutil Optionally, you can remove ConTeXt support from teTeX's configuration, because ConTeXt does not use fmtutil. ---------------------%<-------------------------- -f -- wasting your life is prohibited by the law
frantisek holop wrote:
hmm, on Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 10:57:57PM +0100, Taco Hoekwater said that
Finally, what goes wrong: unless you either delete the teTeX-supplied context formats or change texmf.cnf, the old formats will be found first by kpathsea.
excellent explanation.
so is it either or? is it enough to change texmf.cnf _or_ delete the old format files?
I believe it is either or, but I am not sure any more. It's been a while since I've used a "normal" installation. Cheers, Taco
frantisek holop wrote:
hi there,
my second question, is more like asking for pointers...
where can i read more about fmtutil, and how come that context does not use it when (i assume) pdftex does?
Fmtutil is used to generate the necessary format files to run tex. - Context provides this within texexec. So generating the formats becomes simply texexec --make en metafun mptopdf i.e. a list of requested formats. even shorter this is texexec --make all.. This will however generate formats which you will never use. But nowadays, where diskspace is no issue :-) Kind regards Willi
--\startquote--------------------------------------------------- Cleanup fmtutil
Optionally, you can remove ConTeXt support from teTeX's configuration, because ConTeXt does not use fmtutil.
Using
# fmtutil-sys --edit
you can comment out the lines for metafun,cont-en, and mptopdf
And you can use
# cd /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-var/web2c && rm -f cont-en.* metafun.* mptopdf.*
to remove the old (fmtutil-generated) formats.
--\stopquote----------------------------------------------------
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Willi Egger