Bug#365672: Bug#386074: tetex-base: please update version of xkeyval package
Frank Küster wrote:
> Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp> wrote:
>
>>> % XeTeX
>>> TEXINPUTS.xelatex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{xelatex,xetex,latex,generic,}//
>>> TEXINPUTS.xetex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{xetex,plain,generic,}//
>>
> [...]
>> Please see http://lists.debian.org/debian-tex-maint/2006/08/msg00066.html
>
> Should xetex bee in xelatex's search path?
IMO there is no need for special directories $TEXMF/tex/{xelatex,xetex}.
So it does not matter whether or not the xetex dir is in xelatex's
path. Let's look at the actual files installed by upstream in these
directories:
* .ini files:
TEXMF/tex/xetex/config/xetex.ini
TEXMF/tex/xelatex/config/xelatex.ini
Like other .ini files, these should be placed in
TEXMF/tex/plain/config/
TEXMF/tex/latex/config/
* updates to LaTeX style files (currently url.sty and xkeyval.sty):
These should go somewhere below TEXMF/tex/latex/, so that other engines
together with the LaTeX format can profit from the updates.
* XeLaTeX specific style files (fontspec, euenc, xltxtra, xunicode,
xetex.def):
These packages give an error message when not used with XeTeX as engine.
IMO this is better than a 'file not found' error when accidentally
running say pdflatex on a file meant for xelatex. Hence I think
TEXMF/tex/latex/ is better.
* Configuration files for various LaTeX packages (graphics, color, crop,
hyperref, geometry)
These files should be modified such that they can distinguish between
being loaded by XeTeX, pdfTeX, TeX, ... and incorporate the default
behaviour from the relevant packages. I think this is one of the things
that has to be done for getting XeTeX into TeX Live.
Finally there is the issue of hyphenation files, which was recently
discussed on the TeX Live list. These are not related to these specific
directories, though.
cheerio
ralf
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