Re: txmf.cnf answer

Re: txmf.cnf answer

[Frans Goddijn]

Hello,

sorry for that last question, because I managed to find the answer; I honestly thought my ability to solve these things myself was
exhausted, but I had overlooked the "main-memory" setting in txmf.cnf. When I changed that value to 1100000 as it was for ConTeXt,
the formats were produced wonderfully.

I was surprised to see that they are called like cont-nl.efmt where I had expected them to be *.fmt but I guess I need to do some
reading about the new TeX varieties. I saw mention of PDFetex instead of the familiar PDFtex so I guess there's an e in all these
names suddenly ;-))

Groet!

Frans

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Re: txmf.cnf answer

[Gilbert van den Dobbelsteen]

On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Frans Goddijn wrote:

> I was surprised to see that they are called like cont-nl.efmt where I had expected them to be *.fmt but I guess I need to do some
> reading about the new TeX varieties. I saw mention of PDFetex instead of the familiar PDFtex so I guess there's an e in all these
> names suddenly ;-

pdfetex (and not pdftex) is an enhanced version, it is a merge from etex and
pdftex. Context runs better with pdfetex, since context actually uses these
enhanced things (but don't ask me what in specific)

Gilbert.

Re: txmf.cnf answer

[Hans Hagen]

At 05:58 PM 8/17/00 +0200, Gilbert van den Dobbelsteen wrote:
>On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Frans Goddijn wrote:
>
>> I was surprised to see that they are called like cont-nl.efmt where I
had expected them to be *.fmt but I guess I need to do some
>> reading about the new TeX varieties. I saw mention of PDFetex instead of
the familiar PDFtex so I guess there's an e in all these
>> names suddenly ;-
>
>
>pdfetex (and not pdftex) is an enhanced version, it is a merge from etex and
>pdftex. Context runs better with pdfetex, since context actually uses these
>enhanced things (but don't ask me what in specific)

It runs (on some jobs) some 5% faster. When you browse the source code, you
will find sections like \

  \beginTEX .... \endTEX

and 

  \beginETEX ... \endETEX

that implement low level macros in two ways, depending on the (e)tex used.
There are a few places where etex is more robust, especially when tricky
expansion is used. 

In a similar way, I can (and will) support specific pdftex and omega
features. 

Hans   
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