At Tue, 11 Feb 2003 17:41:42 +0100 Hans Hagen wrote:
At 04:36 PM 2/11/2003 +0100, Martin Schroeder wrote:
On 2003-02-07 19:51:27 +0100, Thomas Esser wrote:
also on the todo list:
What about the things that Heiko Oberdieck has proposed: http://omnibus.uni-freiburg.de/~oberdiek/pdftex.html
The map files need a bit more thinking.
indeed, esp since the optimization only looks at the first 8 chars of a filename if i remember right;
No, you have already given that hint last year and I have changed
the patch using all chars.
To make it clear, the patch improves the performance of
the *current* map file handling of pdfTeX. It saves me
*much* time in comparison to the binary of TeXLive 7.
But for *future* versions we should find an agreement
about the behaviour of pdfTeX regarding map files,
eg:
* Map files:
* Where can they specified?
* config file (pdftex.cfg)
* support of other config files
* config files given on command line
* map files given on command line
* config files given by command
* map files given by command
* ...
* When they are evaluated?
* static, first use
* dynamic changes possible?
* Which order?
* default, if no map file is given?
* adding mapfiles
* replacing mapfiles
* order ...
* ...
* Map entries:
* later entries are ignored with warning (current)
* later entries replaces older ones silently
* syntax ...
* ...
I hope I will find some time next days to give a suggestion for a
specification. One aim can be to make the behaviour similar to
dvips.
Yours sincerely
Heiko