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


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