Re: updating ConTeXt to latest on openbsd-current Q #2

[Willi Egger <w.egger@boede.nl>]

frantisek holop wrote:

>hi there,
>
>my second question, is more like asking for pointers...
>
>where can i read more about fmtutil, and how come that
>context does not use it when (i assume) pdftex does?
>
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Fmtutil is used to generate the necessary format files to run tex. - 
Context provides this within texexec. So generating the formats
becomes simply  texexec --make en metafun mptopdf  i.e. a list of 
requested formats.
even shorter this is texexec --make all..  This will however generate 
formats which you will never use. But nowadays, where diskspace is no 
issue :-)

Kind regards

Willi

>--\startquote---------------------------------------------------
>Cleanup fmtutil
>
>Optionally, you can remove ConTeXt support from teTeX's configuration,
>because ConTeXt does not use fmtutil.
>
>Using
>
># fmtutil-sys --edit
>
>you can comment out the lines for metafun,cont-en, and mptopdf
>
>And you can use
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># cd /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-var/web2c && rm -f cont-en.* metafun.* mptopdf.*
>
>to remove the old (fmtutil-generated) formats. 
>
>--\stopquote----------------------------------------------------
>
>-f
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