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kpathsea: TeX support

 
 6 TeX support
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 Although the basic features in Kpathsea can be used for any type of path
 searching, it came about, as usual, with a specific application in mind:
 I wrote Kpathsea specifically for TeX system programs.  I had been
 struggling with the programs I was using (Dvips, Xdvi, and TeX itself)
 having slightly different notions of how to specify paths; and debugging
 was painful, since no code was shared.
 
    Therefore, Kpathsea provides some TeX-specific formats and features.
 Indeed, many of the purportedly generic path searching features were
 provided because they seemed useful in that conTeXt (font lookup,
 particularly).
 
    Kpathsea provides a standard way to search for files of any of the
 supported file types; glyph fonts are a bit different than all the rest.
 Searches are based solely on names of files, not their contents--if a GF
 file is (mis)named 'cmr10.600pk', it will be found as a PK file.
 

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· Supported file formats      File types Kpathsea knows about.
· File lookup                 Searching for most kinds of files.
· Glyph lookup                Searching for bitmap fonts.
· Suppressing warnings        Avoiding warnings via TEX_HUSH.
· mktex scripts               Generating files at runtime.
 

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