Re: Reinitialization of kpathsea after \write18

On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 09:38:43PM +0800, Zhang Lin-bo wrote:
> I'm trying to use the \write18 function to implement a feature to
> create on the fly the configuration files and font metric files for
> a given Chinese font (the newly created files are stored in the

Hm... This is more a matter for the kpathsea / web2c maintainer (Olaf
Weber), since teTeX follows his releases. For 3.0, no such feature
is planned. I wonder, however, why you can't simply omit !! before
$HOMETEXMF, so files can be found even if not present in kpathsea's
hash table.

Thomas