Re: 2.99.7: first rc of teTeX-3.0

Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[email protected]> Sat, 08 Jan 2005 16:05:16 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.tetex.beta
Organization Jan at Appel
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Akira Kakuto writes:

>>     mktexfmt mf-nowin.base
>> 
>> fails.
>
> mf-nowin.base is not necessary and mktexfmt mf-nowin.base will be
> never called if you always invoke mf-nowin like mf-nowin
> --progname=mf ... ...

I understand , but why add this extra complexity, and how to guarantee
that?  For example, currently, for LilyPond I'm using

    AC_CHECK_PROGS(METAFONT, mf-nowin mf mfw mfont)

Can you suggest something better?

Thanks,
Jan.

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