On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 10:59:33PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Hi, > > I've implemented a workaround, a special case for jadetex and xmltex, in > update-fontlang. Here's a first draft for the documentation part in > TeX-on-Debian: > > + <sect1 id="jadetex-xmltex-specialcase"> > + <heading>A special case in <prgn>update-fmtutil</prgn>: > + Formats which are based on other formats</heading> > + <p> > + The JadeTeX and xmlTeX formats are built on top of LaTeX > + and therefore require special treatment. This is done > + automatically for the Debian packages for these formats. > + However, local administrators who similarly base their > + custom formats on LaTeX (or any other format) might need > + to take special care, in particular when dist-upgrading. > + </p> > [...]
Sorry for dropping into the discussion so late. Is it reasonable to treat any format which has an invocation line beginning with "&..." in a similar way? Would that help to solve the problem more generally? Julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]