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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/tex-ini-files/README.md b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/tex-ini-files/README.md index 2807e9b07ee..3a7b94b0bdd 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/tex-ini-files/README.md +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/tex-ini-files/README.md @@ -9,19 +9,18 @@ work with XeTeX and LuaTeX. ## Shared configuration -The file `pdftexconfig.dat` contains common settings for pdfTeX +The file `pdftexconfig.tex` contains common settings for pdfTeX and LuaTeX, most of which are concerned with direct PDF output. -These settings are given in a key-value format and are named -based on the pdfTeX 1.40 primitives. The values for the settings -themselves is taken from the standard values in TeX Live 2010 -with the paper size set as A4. +This file is designed to be loaded directly by pdfTeX and can +be parsed by the `luatexconfig.tex` to allow the same settings +to be used by LuaTeX directly. The format of the file +`pdftexconfig.tex` is strictly -Loading this data in pdfTeX is achieved by `pdftexconfig.tex`, -whereas for LuaTeX the file `luatexconfig.tex` is needed. Both -of these files will load the shared data file and assign the -appropriate primitives. + <pdfTeX primitive> = <value> -The loaders recognise the marker control sequence `\dvimode`. +for all non-comment non-blank lines. + +The LuaTeX loader recognise the marker control sequence `\dvimode`. If this is defined, the loaders will set the format to produce DVI file, and otherwise will select direct PDF output. The loader will then undefine `\dvimode`. @@ -45,6 +44,8 @@ files and engines available from late 2015 onward, in particular: Major changes: - 2016-02-27 First version of bundle +- 2016-04-14 Do not assume e-TeX availability in `pdftexconfig.tex` +- 2016-04-15 New approach to loading shared pdfTeX/LuaTeX data A full history of this bundle is available from https://github.com/josephwright/tex-ini-files |