Re: new version

["Adam Lindsay" <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk>]

Hans Hagen said this at Fri, 27 May 2005 01:34:57 +0200:

>what does
>
>   texmfstart newtexexec --make --all
>
>do?

Interesting...
It builds the formats (not engine aware in terms of where it puts
the .fmt files--at least it uses different switches compared to what I'm
used to), but (old)texexec did that too.

What's interesting is that it doesn't insist on rebuilding the format on
a normal (--pdf) run. (And it's fast: does it buffer the terminal output?)

in summary:
texexec --make --all
  Builds the formats.
texexec --pdf myfile
  fails to find the format, builds it, runs the file
texmfstart newtexexec --make --all
  Builds the formats.
texmfstart newtexexec --pdf myfile
  finds the format correctly, runs the file quickly.

texmfstart newtexexec --make --xtx --engine en
  Builds a XeTeX format, but leaves it in the web2c directory
texexec --make --xtx --engine en
  Builds a XeTeX format, and correctly puts it in web2c/xetex

hmm. Honestly, I personally didn't have any complaints with the
operation of the previous version of texexec.
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