Re: Bug#338608: Documenting change to tetex 3.0; deprecating initex and virtex.

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp> wrote:

> Since I have a better understanding on this problem at hand:
>
> Debian tetex packages now use pdfetex. 'initex' interface does not

s/Debian tetex packages/teTeX/;

I wouldn't understand what "'initex' interface" means if I hadn't
followed the discussion.  What about:

>From version 3.0, teTeX uses pdfetex as its main engine (i.e., binary).
initex can no longer safely be used to create formats, because it does
not take into account the different enginges used (etex, pdftex,
pdfetex,...), and therefore no initex symlink is provided in teTeX 3.0.
For format generation, use fmtutil or call the underlying engine with
the '-ini' command line option.  For example, 'latex -ini &latex
name.tex' will dump the format for name.tex.

> To obtain the file extention of the format file, use the filename 
> generated by 'kpsewhich --format fmt latex' (However, note that 
> sarge tetex has a workaround, and thus cannot be relied upon).

That's okay for me.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer