Bug#269870: tetex-bin: default fmtutil.cnf breaks package 'whizzytex'
reassign 269870 whizzytex
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Thomas Pichler <taupi@aon.at> wrote:
> The default setting for latex in /etc/texmf/fmt.d/00tetex.cnf
> looks like this:
>
> latex tex language.dat latex.ini
> latex etex language.dat *latex.ini
>
> As a consequence, latex is really elatex, and elatex does
> not work with whizzytex which only provides a .fmt, but not an .efmt
> file. (So, maybe the whizzytex maintainer(s) should do something about it?)
Yes, definitely. We, the teTeX maintainers, must apologize about not
advertizing the change loudly enough. But then we thought that it
shouldn't cause any problems, because this had been the advice of the
LaTeX team since over a year now, and we simply didn't imagine that
there were so many packages with hardcoded format names.
[...]
> And here is how to manually set back latex to be latex and not elatex:
> as root,
> - comment the line containing "latex etex" in /etc/texmf/fmt.d/00tetex.cnf
> - invoke 'update-fmtutil -v'
> - invoke 'texlinks --multiplatform -v'
The right thing to do for whizzytex's maintainer, if he wants to go that
way, would be to divert the link, probably this can be done with a
/etc/texmf/fmt.d/99whizzytex.cnf with the first line cited above.
However, this would mean that eTeX is not used at all, and this is bad
for most situations (there are even Packages around that won't work
without eTeX).
The right thing will be to fix whizzytex to use eTeX. I am not sure, but
it might be very simple:
--- whizzytex-1.1.3.0/src/whizzytex.orig 2004-09-04 16:45:12.000000000 +0000
+++ whizzytex-1.1.3.0/src/whizzytex 2004-09-04 16:45:30.000000000 +0000
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
INITEX=initex
LATEX=latex
FORMAT=latex
-FMT=fmt
+FMT=efmt
BIBTEX=bibtex
# Default place for configuration files
Junichi, if you need further information or help, please ask us at
debian-tetex-maint@l.d.o
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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