Re: waiting for mswincontext

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

Hans Hagen wrote:
> Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>> On 9/19/07, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>> 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
>> pdftex.fmt and mpost.mem would be perfectly fine. No need for
>> plain.fmt (I guess). (And maybe xetex.fmt as a sugar, although that
>> one might need some additional files.)
> 
> pdftex --ini -fmt=pdftex plain.tex \\pdfoutput=1 \dump
> 
> probably does that, but as said, everyone wants his/her own variant 
> (patterns to start with -)

There is no doubt that plain is useful. I always create the plain
Knuth format for luatex and pdftex by hand, and while it would be nice
to have it done automatically, it is not that much work, and all real
input files are there (.ini's are a commandline convenience).

If I understood correctly, plain xetex really needs something extra?
If that is so, than perhaps that file should be added. Mojca, what's
up with that?

On dev-context, I have already proposed the removal of a number of
binaries, so I can make that request :-)

Best wishes,
Taco


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