From owner-freebsd-doc Sun May 30 14: 0:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from tok.qiv.com (tok.qiv.com [205.238.142.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B3D614FCA for ; Sun, 30 May 1999 14:00:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdn@acp.qiv.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tok.qiv.com (MailHost/Current) with UUCP id QAA07336; Sun, 30 May 1999 16:00:10 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (jdn@localhost) by acp.qiv.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id PAA08733; Sun, 30 May 1999 15:57:05 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jdn@acp.qiv.com) Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 15:57:05 -0500 (CDT) From: Jay Nelson To: Andreas Klemm Cc: Nik Clayton , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sorry, found it explained during jadetex installation In-Reply-To: <19990530210654.A1835@titan.klemm.gtn.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 30 May 1999, Andreas Klemm wrote: >On Sun, May 30, 1999 at 01:09:10PM -0500, Jay Nelson wrote: >> On Sun, 30 May 1999, Andreas Klemm wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >> >What about patching the file automatically ? >> >Extract the value in question, compare it, adjust to >> >suggested value, if the original value is smaller than the >> >suggested one ... >> >> Not a good idea. If someone has increased TeX's capacity beyond what >> jadetex needs, they could end up ambushed -- or at least "untuned". > >You didn't read my message precisely ;-) >I talked about extracting the current settings >and upgrading only, when current settings are lower. >Or the other way around, if user already pushed settings to >a higher value as needed by jadetex, then leave values as they >are. I did read it. Are you suggesting a script capable of dealing with the relationship between, for example, main_memory.context, main_memory and extra_mem_* and balancing all the options and various pools to be sure it all fits in 8MB? And also, make the correct trade-off if it doesn't? How many of my format files do you propose be rebuild? How can you know if my format files have been modified? If you can do that in a simple perl script without clobbering people who use TeX for things other than the doc project, go for it. I'd like to see the script. Tuning TeX has always been a pain in the butt. Your suggestion seems like a mexican standoff. On one hand you're proposing to modify configurations automatically because some people don't read the screens. On the other, people who don't expect that behavior may not read the screens either -- so about all you accomplish is pissing off a different group of people. Maybe this is acceptable. Nik, if you attempt this, will there be a heads-up notice? -- Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message