Re[4]: New Beta

[Giuseppe Bilotta <bourbaki@bigfoot.com>]

David,

Friday, August 24, 2001 you wrote:

DA> 5. Run texexec --make to build the formats. Because the TeXFormatPath is
DA> set in texexec.ini, the formats are created AND moved into the correct
DA> place in my /localtexmf/miktex/fmt.

I move the formats by hand. This is basically the difference, I
believe. Anyway, you could probably report the "limited-length
cmdline" to Christian Schenk ... provided that it's a MiKTeX
limitation and not an operating system limitation as I suspect.

DA> 7. Then I run

DA> texexec --make --alone --format=mptopdf

DA> This places mptopdf.efmt in /locatexmf/miktex/fmt. Then I take runperl.exe
DA> and rename it to mptopdf.exe. These all used to be in
DA> \miktex\context\perltk, but Christian has moved texexec.exe into the
DA> \miktex\miktex\bin directory, which is on the path created when Miktex is
DA> installed.

Small question: where does the texexec.exe provided in the latest
MiKTeX look for the Perl things?

DA>  This is a cool piece of software which allows me to type

DA> mptopdf filename.1

DA> where filename.1 is Metapost output. The result is the file filename-1.pdf.
DA> Nice, huh? The command also accepts wildcards, as in

DA> mptopdf filename.? or mptopdf filename.*

DA> Old habits die hard, so I'm not quite sure how I want to setup my new
DA> Miktex, but I am learning.

I wonder: doesn't the MiKTeX-prodived epstopdf do the same?

Hear you on the list,
Giuseppe