From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: default engine for texexec
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:16:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47780AC1.10802@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071230082946.GA12828@gaston.couberia.bzh>
Peter Münster wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 04:04:43PM -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
>> On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:22:37 -0700, Peter Münster <pmlists@free.fr> wrote:
>>
>>> What methods do exist, to change the default engine for texexec (for
>>> example luatex instead of pdftex)?
>> ==================
>> % luatex
>
> Hello Idris,
>
> With "default" I mean, that this is the engine, that will be used if I
> don't specify any engine in the file or on the command line.
>
> When I typeset for example the file
> \starttext
> Hi
> \stoptext
>
> with the command "texexec file", I want luatex to be used. And with the
> command "texexec --pdftex file" I want pdftex to be used.
because eventually mkiv will provide new functionality adding the %
lines makes sense; texexec will always default to pdftex because
otherwise we break compatibility when used in scripts
mtxrun --script context ....
which wil become the luatex replacemenent for texexec for luatex
Hans
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-29 22:22 Peter Münster
2007-12-29 23:04 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2007-12-30 8:29 ` Peter Münster
2007-12-30 18:17 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2007-12-30 21:16 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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