Re: mptopdf Problem

Thomas Esser wrote:

>On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 08:58:14PM +0200, Hartmut Henkel wrote:
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>>hahe@hahepc1:~$ mptopdf xx.mp
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>>pdfetex: unrecognized option `-efmt=mptopdf'
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>The -efmt option was removed. All engines now use -fmt. The names of the
>format files now all have the suffix .fmt (no longer .efmt), so Context
>needs to be fixed:
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>$ grep -r efmt scripts/
>scripts/context/perl/mptopdf.pl:#         { $command = "pdfetex -progname=pdfetex -efmt=mptopdf" } 
>scripts/context/perl/mptopdf.pl:          { $command = "pdfetex -progname=context -efmt=mptopdf" } 
>scripts/context/perl/texexec.pl:        my $efmt = `$kpsewhich cont-en.efmt` ;
>scripts/context/perl/texexec.pl:        chomp $efmt ;
>scripts/context/perl/texexec.pl:        if ($efmt eq "") {
>scripts/context/perl/texexec.pl:#         if ((-f "$tree/web2c/cont-en.efmt")||
>scripts/context/perl/texexec.pl:#             (-f "$tree/web2c/cont-nl.efmt"))
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pdfetex --help gives:

-efmt=FMTNAME           use FMTNAME instead of program name or a %& line
-fmt=FMTNAME            use FMTNAME instead of program name or a %& line

so, both switches are equivalent but the efmt is no longer the official 
one; i have a big problem with patching scripts in a way so that they no 
longer work with old binaries (because i use old and new ones, and 
because we cannot expect everyone to update, leats of all sysadms)

texexec is already patched for this and since pdfetex supports both 
switches -efmt and -fmt i see no reason to patch mptopdf now; i will do 
that when i am sure that all tex's behave the same;

anyhow, the fmt business will become messy anyway since either or not 
subpaths will be used (if not, there will be clashes)

Hans