Re: [NTG-context] Gamma support in TeXExec?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 06:13 PM 10/19/2002 +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I noticed that TeXExec has no "native" support for Gamma, in the
>sense that it doesn't change the "cont-" prefix to "gamma-" when
>the TeX executable is set to Omega.
>
>I did a patch to make this possible, but of course since there are
>no gamma-<language>.tex files, it doesn't work that simply. I
>therefore did a more extensive patch (it has to dump the format as
>cont-en and then rename it) but this is sub-optimal. It would be
>very easy to do if (recent) fpTeX and teTeX supported the
>--job-name option ... is this the case? If so, the patch can be
>done very easily. Anybody using fpTeX or teTeX know about this?

--tex=binary --format=formatname

personally i think that gamma should just use a cont-* file, but with an 
ofmt extension; where etex can be distinguished by suffix, omega cannot, 
which is a bad thing since now one gets format clashes; i didn't experiment 
with this, but it may be possible to set the texformat paths in texmf.cnf 
on a per progrma basis (omega.texformats => .../web2c/omega)

Hans
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