Re: Some really unimportant bits

Thomas Esser writes:

>> - 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...

The text of the man pages now mentions these programs, mentions that
they are symlinks in the web2c implementation, and mentions that they
might not exist at all, like this:

       The pdfinitex and pdfvirtex commands are pdfTeX's analogues to the ini-
       tex and virtex commands.  In this installation, they are symbolic links
       to the pdftex executable.  These symbolic links may not exist at all.

It is quite possible, by the way, that the manual pages and names of
the programs never were completely in sync in the first place.

>> 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?

It looks like the cweb man page may need some revision.  As far as I
know, once installed as cweb.1 you do not actually need symbolic links
to ctangle.1 or cweave.1 as man's indexing should allow the page to be
found for 'man ctangle' and 'man cweave' anyway.  (Though there may be
some platform dependency here as well, this should work for Debian at
least.)

>> 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.

A few notes in the mf manual page should do, frex:

       On  some systems, there are two Metafont binaries, mf and mf-nowin.  On
       those systems the mf  binary  supports  graphics,  while  the  mf-nowin
       binary  does  not.  The mf-nowin binary is used by scripts like mktexpk
       where graphics support is a nuisance rather than something helpful.

-- 
Olaf Weber

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