Bug#507652: texlive: does not print math symbols
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Norbert Preining wrote:
> 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.
Ah, OK. Pregeneration works and on-the-fly generation doesn't. I get it now.
But mktexfmt cont-en.fmt makes both formats, at least here.
I don't know these programs, but it should be a tiny fix to make the
on-the-fly format generation work the same way (generate both
formats). It would be suboptimal (when only a single format could have
been generated), but it's more important to solve the problem than to
try to be optimal - and nobody cares. ConTeXt format takes forever to
generate. If it generates both formats only once, it would not make a
big difference.
Is such a tiny fix possible? (I tend to get lost in that script.)
Mojca
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