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- From: ntomczak@vega.math.ualberta.ca (N Tomczak-Jaegermann)
- Subject: Re: Building your own format file on Unix?
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- References: <1jvckhINN1ui@mimas.cc.deakin.OZ.AU> <EIJKHOUT.93Jan26122126@cupid.cs.utk.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:10:53 GMT
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- eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout) writes:
-
- >and \dump at the final '*' or put \dump in your file.
- >Then type
- > virtex \&formt infil
- >where infil.tex is your input.
-
- On any Unix implementation which I have seen so far instead of
- this calisthenics you do instead 'ln virtex formt' and call it via
- 'formt infil'. If you do not like name 'formt' you do then
- 'ln formt.fmt my_brand_new_name.fmt' and 'ln virtex my_brand_new_name'
- (of course in corresponding directories) and you then call it
- 'my_brand_new_name infil'. That is the reason for a 'virtex'
- grand-daddy name. BTW - (hard) links do not take an extra disk space
- even if each will list with a full size of an original file.
- Oh, do not forget 'rehash' once you introduced new program names.
- You computer may otherwise have problems finding them the first time
- around.
-
- This mechanism has one side effect which already tripped a few
- TeXers. Assume that you have latex.fmt linked to lplain.fmt and
- you just re-made a brand new lplain.fmt with NFSS, say, replacing
- an old lplain.fmt in the process. You type 'latex test' and no
- NFSS is in sight. The problem is that in this moment you have
- two separate files - latex.fmt (old) and lplain.fmt (new) and you
- are really using an old latex.fmt. To complete an installation
- process you have to remove latex.fmt and re-create link of
- lplain.fmt to latex.fmt once again. You may opt for symbolic
- links which do not suffer from that problem but have some other
- disadvantages.
-
- Just to make your life simpler.
-
- Michal Jaegermann
- ntomczak@vega.math.ualberta.ca
- ntomczak@vm.ucs.ualberta.ca
-