Re: waiting for mswincontext

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

>> texexec --make --all --xetex plain
> 
> it could be just a matter of taste but I prefer to call just pdftex or
> xetex and the engine with the preloaded plain TeX formats, this is
> shorter because the format files pdftex.fmt or xetex.fmt are loaded by
> default with the engines and xetex has sets also charclasses to a few
> charcaters in his own plain format.

can still be done, we're just talking about making formats and that also 
involves moving files to directories and such (initex puts formats in 
the current dir)

>> and alike? i have nu clue what ini files are for
> 
> nearly the same thing you do with your cont-de, cont-en files, the load
> plain.tex and seta few option like pdfoutput=1 in pdftex.ini.
> 
> A simple pdftex.ini could look like
> 
> \input plain
> \pdfoutput=1
> \dump

hm, to be honest, i dislike such defaults, esp since normally switches 
to engines go along with selective loading or other initializations,

afaik those ini files are used by fmtutil and that is (and will not be) 
not part of the minimals

> I know the ini files from w32tex and don't know how the other TeX
> distributions like TeXlive or MikTeX handle the formats but I like this
> system and the ini files also in the ConTeXt minimals.

would not help since generating format is not done that way in minimals

btw,

pdftex --ini &plain \\pdfoutput=1 \dump

can do the same for you, but as said .. if the minimals would have plain 
formats they would default to dvi anyway so it would be of no help to you

Hans

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