From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/9623 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giuseppe Bilotta Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re[2]: [NTG-context] Gamma support in TeXExec? Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 23:31:49 +0200 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ref.vet.uu.nl Message-ID: <17155343960.20021021233149@iol.it> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20021020184536.00afa6e0@remote-1> <5.1.0.14.1.20021020184536.00afa6e0@remote-1> <5.1.0.14.1.20021021085206.02ecf2a8@server-1> <87of9n8p89.fsf@infovore.xs4all.nl> Reply-To: Giuseppe Bilotta NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035399923 4535 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 19:05:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 19:05:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-Received: from hermes.hrz.uni-giessen.de (hermes.hrz.uni-giessen.de [134.176.2.15]) by osiris.hrz.uni-giessen.de (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g9LLaYe02370 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 23:36:34 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl by hermes.hrz.uni-giessen.de with ESMTP for Guenter.Partosch@hrz.uni-giessen.de; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 23:36:23 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8FD910B1C; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 23:36:18 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from smtp3.libero.it (smtp3.libero.it [193.70.192.127]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0158710B11 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 23:35:46 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from [151.29.131.240] (151.29.131.240) by smtp3.libero.it (6.5.028) id 3DA3111B0065D966; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 23:31:56 +0200 X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.60q) Business X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Original-To: Olaf Weber In-Reply-To: <87of9n8p89.fsf@infovore.xs4all.nl> Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ref.vet.uu.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ref.ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:9623 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:9623 Monday, October 21, 2002 Olaf Weber wrote: OW> Hans Hagen writes: >> At 08:40 PM 10/20/2002 +0200, Olaf Weber wrote: >>> Hans Hagen writes: >>>> personally i think that gamma should just use a cont-* file, but with >>>> an ofmt extension; where etex can be distinguished by suffix, omega >>>> cannot, which is a bad thing since now one gets format clashes; >>> This is an interesting idea, and one I'd be willing to impose on Omega. >> Thanks! It would help a lot. OW> Still, for my peace of mind I'd like to know a bit more of the OW> background, and why getting Omega to use a different suffix will help OW> so much. (And does this mean that pdftex and pdfetex should be OW> modified as well?) e-TeX already uses the .efmt extension when running in extended mode. The reason to use different extensions is to solve easily the problem of re-naming formats when running with different engines (pdfLaTeX vs Lamba vs eLaTeX vs LaTeX, for example). While it may be interesting to find new names for old formats under new engines, it's really unnecessary (for example ConTeXt has a preliminary support for Omega as its engine; the ConTeXt format built on Omega has to be called Gamma, or you can't have Knuth's or pdf-TeX *and* Omega formats at the same time). -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ref.ntg.nl http://ref.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context