From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/36674 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: waiting for mswincontext Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:00:38 +0200 Message-ID: <46F163C6.1030703@wxs.nl> References: <1625208280.20070918233338@gmail.com> <46F0D3D8.7050305@wxs.nl> <20070919164032.193dbd41.schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> <46F13619.6030609@wxs.nl> <20070919192254.1e1fe351.schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190225737 11820 80.91.229.12 (19 Sep 2007 18:15:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:15:37 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Sep 19 20:15:17 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IY3s9-0005dB-TJ for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:02:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03BEA20141; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:02:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 20341-07-3; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:01:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 707B520139; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:01:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BDC920139 for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:01:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 20341-07-2 for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:01:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AC93200F9 for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:01:43 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 15008 for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:01:43 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: <20070919192254.1e1fe351.schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:36674 Archived-At: 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________