Re: Some really unimportant bits

Thomas Esser <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.tetex.beta
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> - the cont-en link is no longer created - why?

While it is true teTeX sets up a format named cont-en by default, you are
not supposed to run it without command line parameters. To get the sizes
of some memory arrays right, you have to specify -progname=context. Next,
you also have to specify -efmt=cont-en (otherwise context.efmt will be
used). So, people should use texexec to use a context format, since this
offers all the bells and whistles...

> - the manpage for pdfetex refers to the binary names pdfeinitex and
>   pdfevirtex. However, the binaries are called inipdfetex and virpdfetex
>   now (by the way, why the change?).

I plan to remove all *ini* and *vir* symlinks. Hopefully, web2c-7.5.3
will come with a set of updated manpages...

> no manpage for ctangle
> no manpage for cweave

cweb.1 basically explains these programs, but the FILES section needs
some work... Olaf, will you fix this section and/or provide the symlinks
for ctangle.1 / cweave.1?

> no manpage for dvilj2p
> no manpage for dvilj4
> no manpage for dvilj4l
> no manpage for dvilj6

dvilj.1 can be used. I'll fix this.

> no manpage for dvipdft
> no manpage for ebb

Both are part of dvipdfm. No manpage, sorry.

> no manpage for fdf2tan
> no manpage for texfind
> no manpage for makempy
> no manpage for mptopdf
> no manpage for texfont

Wrappers for context modules... I have never seen manpages for those. But,
I am sure that Hans has documentation for those in pdf.

> no manpage for fmtutil
> no manpage for texlinks
> no manpage for mktexfmt (=fmtutil)

Hm... Sorry...

> no manpage for kpsewhere

I have added the manpage that you have provided to my tree, so this
is fixed.

> no manpage for inipdfetex
> no manpage for inipdftex
> no manpage for virpdfetex
> no manpage for virpdftex
> no manpage for olatex

To disappear...

> no manpage for mf-nowin

That's metafont (mf) without support for any windowing system, but good
enough to be used my mktexpk. I think that I should fix that missing
manpage.

> no manpage for mkfontdesc

Well, 10 years ago, that utility might have made some sense... I just
have removed it from teTeX.

> no manpage for mkocp
> no manpage for mkofm
> no manpage for odvicopy
> no manpage for odvips
> no manpage for odvitype
> no manpage for ofm2opl
> no manpage for omfonts
> no manpage for opl2ofm
> no manpage for otangle
> no manpage for otp2ocp
> no manpage for outocp
> no manpage for ovf2ovp
> no manpage for ovp2ovf

Omega stuff...

> no manpage for pdftosrc
> no manpage for ttf2afm

These come with pdftex.

> no manpage for xdvi-xaw.bin

That's just the name of the xdvi binary (xdvi itself is just a wrapper
script to call it).

> In Debian, we have Manpages for 
> 
> $ ls new-manpages
> mkocp.1  mkofm.1  ofm2opl.1  opl2ofm.1  otp2ocp.1  outocp.1  ovf2ovp.1  ovp2ovf.1  ttf2afm.1

Can you send those over, please?

> and we create the links

Looks good (except those handling *ini* / *vir* which should better go
away as well as the symlinks in bin).

Thomas
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