Bug#507652: texlive: does not print math symbols
Hi Hilmar, hi Mojca,
(taking not releveant people from the Cc/To)
On Wed, 03 Dec 2008, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> > Thanks for the input. Could you have a short look at
> > http://bugs.debian.org/483885 . I guess it is the same problem, right?
>
> No, that's something completely different and I didn't know that this
> was a problem at all. If Norbert who implemented engine recognition
> cannot answer you, I'm clueless as well.
I answered that already in the bug report. THe problem is that mktexfmt
does not have *any* idea of under which engine it is running, so it
cannot in any way create the right format, but creates the first
matching, and that was in that case the context format based on pdftex.
That was then loaded (tried to be loaded) into xetex which somehow
didn't work out.
I explained how to circumvent that, and furthermore in Debian this is
done by default anyway (formats pre-generated).
For Jonathan: We might think (together with Karl) about how to extend
mktexfmt so that it gets an idea under which format it is running.
Best wishes
Norbert
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Debian Developer <preining@debian.org> Debian TeX Group
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