Re: Reinitialization of kpathsea after \write18

Vladimir Volovich <[email protected]> Mon, 06 Dec 2004 21:35:35 +0300

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.tex.tetex.beta
Organization	Voronezh State University
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

"ZL" == Zhang Lin-bo writes:

 ZL> So my question is: is it possible to add the above feature to the
 ZL> incoming new version of teTeX (3.0?)? (or maybe I'm not doing
 ZL> things the right way?)

kpathsea has a feature of calling the script "mktextfm" when TeX fails
to find a TFM file, after which it re-initializes the search paths for
TFM files. So why don't you want to use this already existing mechanism?

Best,
v.