Hardcoded options in the Ruby scripts
Hello Hans, I'm still wondering why there are certain formats hardcoded in your scripts and how the "make all formats" feature does (not work). See scripts/ruby/base/tex.rb: Lines 131-137: Here are a few languages predefined which texexec "knows". If I want to add a format for another language, I have to add a new line here. Line 339: Here are the "default" TeX formats defined. No problem to consider something as default ;-), but the point is that "texexec --make --all" actually does "make all DEFAULT formats", NOT "make all AVAILABLE formats". :-( Anyway, the main problem I see is altering of a script which comes with the ConTeXt distribution - the changes made into this scripts must be done again and again after each update. My suggestion is: 1. To put the format definition into a separate file (like user.rb or so) which won't be owerwritten in any case. [Note: cont-usr.tex is a good analogy to this] 2. "Make all" should make ALL the defined ConTeXt formats, not the default ones. Thanks, Richard
Richard Gabriel wrote:
Lines 131-137: Here are a few languages predefined which texexec "knows". If I want to add a format for another language, I have to add a new line here.
such as ...? (adding a user inferface is more that adding something to texexec)
Line 339: Here are the "default" TeX formats defined. No problem to consider something as default ;-), but the point is that "texexec --make --all" actually does "make all DEFAULT formats", NOT "make all AVAILABLE formats". :-(
which would be quite a lot -) what do you mean with all?
Anyway, the main problem I see is altering of a script which comes with the ConTeXt distribution - the changes made into this scripts must be done again and again after each update.
My suggestion is: 1. To put the format definition into a separate file (like user.rb or so) which won't be owerwritten in any case. [Note: cont-usr.tex is a good analogy to this]
hm, must think about it ; i don't like too many dependencies
2. "Make all" should make ALL the defined ConTeXt formats, not the default ones.
--all means: all patterns Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
Hello Hans, thanks for the answer.
(adding a user inferface is more that adding something to texexec) I understand, but I use the English interface for all languages anyway. Maybe I'm doing something wrong or in a non-standard way... For processing files with ConTeXt, I have a script which does (simplified to the minimum):
texmfstart texexec --interface=cont-$1 $2 So when I started to experiment with Chinese and Japanese, for example, I naturally wanted the processing to be consistent with other languages. I've simply "cloned" the cont-en.tex format file into cont-cn.tex and cont-ja.tex and defined the default language, default encoding etc. in them. And created new formats. But I had to add these new formats into scripts/ruby/base/tex.rb in order to generate and use them. In case of ConTeXt update, I have to do this change again and again. That's the reason why I've suggested to put these definitons into a separate (user) file.
2. "Make all" should make ALL the defined ConTeXt formats, not the default ones. --all means: all patterns
Mmm, sorry... I forgot that there are many formats other than cont-*... :-/ What does "all patterns" mean? Before altering the tex.rb script, I've tried "texexec --make --all" several times, and it had always rebuilt the 'cont-en', 'cont-nl' and 'mptopdf' formats (maybe also 'metafun'(?); I'm not completely sure...). -Richard _____ From: Hans Hagen [mailto:pragma@wxs.nl] To: mailing list for ConTeXt users [mailto:ntg-context@ntg.nl] Sent: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:42:05 +0200 Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Hardcoded options in the Ruby scripts Richard Gabriel wrote:
Lines 131-137: Here are a few languages predefined which texexec "knows". If I want to add a format for another language, I have to add a new line here.
such as ...? (adding a user inferface is more that adding something to texexec)
Line 339: Here are the "default" TeX formats defined. No problem to consider something as default ;-), but the point is that "texexec --make --all" actually does "make all DEFAULT formats", NOT "make all AVAILABLE formats". :-(
which would be quite a lot -) what do you mean with all?
Anyway, the main problem I see is altering of a script which comes with the ConTeXt distribution - the changes made into this scripts must be done again and again after each update.
My suggestion is: 1. To put the format definition into a separate file (like user.rb or so) which won't be owerwritten in any case. [Note: cont-usr.tex is a good analogy to this]
hm, must think about it ; i don't like too many dependencies
2. "Make all" should make ALL the defined ConTeXt formats, not the default ones.
--all means: all patterns Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
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