fmt change

git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@3352 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/source/english/texlive-en/live.tex b/Master/texmf-doc/source/english/texlive-en/live.tex
index 07f81bee8eb..c20f2b3cc42 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-doc/source/english/texlive-en/live.tex
+++ b/Master/texmf-doc/source/english/texlive-en/live.tex
@@ -3182,7 +3182,7 @@ latex --translate-file=empty.tcx yourfile.tex
 \subsection{Present}
 \label{tlcurrent}
 
-In 2006, the major new addition to \TL{} was the Xe\TeX{} program,
+In 2006--2007, the major new addition to \TL{} was the Xe\TeX{} program,
 available as the \texttt{xetex} and \texttt{xelatex} programs; see
 \url{http://scripts.sil.org/xetex}.
 
@@ -3190,6 +3190,14 @@ MetaPost also received a notable update, with more planned for the
 future (\url{http://tug.org/metapost/articles}), likewise pdf\TeX{}
 (\url{http://tug.org/applications/pdftex})
 
+The \TeX\ \filename{.fmt} (high-speed format) and the similar files for
+MetaPost and \MF\ are now stored in subdirectories of \url{texmf/web2c},
+instead of in the directory itself (although the directory is still
+searched, for the sake of existing \filename{.fmt}'s).  The
+subdirectories are named for the `engine' in use, such as \filename{tex}
+or \filename{pdftex} or \filename{xetex}.  This change should be
+invisible in normal use.
+
 The (plain) \texttt{tex} program no longer reads \texttt{\%\&} first
 lines to determine what format to run; it is the pure Knuthian \TeX.
 (\LaTeX\ and everything else do still read \texttt{\%\&} lines).