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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2008-07-04 00:42:47 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2008-07-04 00:42:47 +0000 |
commit | 4aab8d3e86b8369ab367c9a83ee2a747e6f70cff (patch) | |
tree | f85c979ce7dd1423c353e8beb77bdc4b6e9d14a9 /Build/source/texk/kpathsea/kpathsea.texi | |
parent | 84afcfa4f1d6ef99297910a2950641b51d21e1e4 (diff) |
try to improve --engine=/ description, per peb
git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@9209 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
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-rw-r--r-- | Build/source/texk/kpathsea/kpathsea.texi | 17 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/kpathsea.texi b/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/kpathsea.texi index e9e6e7af1cb..978278352bb 100644 --- a/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/kpathsea.texi +++ b/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/kpathsea.texi @@ -1093,12 +1093,17 @@ Dvips. Default is 600. @cindex engine name Set the engine name to @var{name}. By default it is not set. The engine name is used in some search paths to allow files with the same -name but used by different engines to coexist. In particular, since -the memory dump files (@file{.fmt}/@file{.base}/@file{.mem}) are now -stored in subdirectories named for the engine (@file{tex}, -@file{pdftex}, @file{xetex}, etc.), you must specify an engine name in -order to find them. You can use @samp{--engine=/} if you are a format -exists for only one engine and you don't care what it is. +name but used by different engines to coexist. + +In particular, since the memory dump files +(@file{.fmt}/@file{.base}/@file{.mem}) are now stored in +subdirectories named for the engine (@file{tex}, @file{pdftex}, +@file{xetex}, etc.), you must specify an engine name in order to find +them. For example, @file{cont-en.fmt} typically exists for both +@file{pdftex} and @file{xetex}. You can use @samp{--engine=/} to look +for any dump file, regardless of engine; if a dump file exists for +more than one engine, it's indeterminate which one is returned. (The +@samp{/} ends up specifying a normal recursive search in @file{texmf/web2c}.) @item --format=@var{name} @opindex --format=@var{name} |