<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I see the same problem Vafa Khalighi wrote both on my mac with mactex-2016<br class=""><div class="">and my linux box with texlive 2016.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bests, <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Alessandro</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 16 Jun 2016, at 03:31, Vafa Khalighi <<a href="mailto:vk489@uowmail.edu.au" class="">vk489@uowmail.edu.au</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Hi Karl</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">lollipop is broken in TeXLive 2016. Create a simple lollipop document</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">\Start</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">This is a test.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">\Stop</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">and process it with `lollipop test.tex' and this is the error you get</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">%%%%%%%%%%</div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.17 (TeX Live 2016) (preloaded format=lollipop)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"> restricted \write18 enabled.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">kpathsea: Running mktexfmt lollipop.fmt</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">mktexfmt: mktexfmt is using the following fmtutil.cnf files (in precedence order):</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">mktexfmt: /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/web2c/fmtutil.cnf</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">mktexfmt: mktexfmt is using the following fmtutil.cnf file for writing changes:</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">mktexfmt: /Users/vafa/Library/texlive/2016/texmf-config/web2c/fmtutil.cnf</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">mktexfmt [INFO]: writing formats under /Users/vafa/Library/texlive/2016/texmf-var/web2c</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">mktexfmt [INFO]: --- remaking lollipop with tex</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">mktexfmt: running `tex -ini -jobname=lollipop -progname=lollipop lollipop.ini' ...</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">This is TeXk, Version 3.14159265 (TeX Live 2016) (INITEX)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"> restricted \write18 enabled.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">(/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/lollipop/lollipop.ini</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">(/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/lollipop/lollipop.tex</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">(/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/lollipop/lollipop-plain.tex</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">(/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyphen/hyphen.tex))</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">(/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/lollipop/lollipop-tools.tex)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">(/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/lollipop/lollipop-define.tex)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">(/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/lollipop/lollipop-fonts.tex)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">(/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/lollipop/lollipop-fontdefs.tex)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">(/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/lollipop/lollipop-text.tex)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">(/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/lollipop/lollipop-document.tex)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">(/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/lollipop/lollipop-heading.tex)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">(/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/lollipop/lollipop-output.tex)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">(/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/lollipop/lollipop-float.tex)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">(/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/lollipop/lollipop-lists.tex)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">) )</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">Beginning to dump on file lollipop.fmt</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"> (preloaded format=lollipop 2016.6.16)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">3422 strings of total length 48580</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">33354 memory locations dumped; current usage is 158&33023</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">2325 multiletter control sequences</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">\font\nullfont=nullfont</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">\font\exx=cmex10</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">\font\ttx=cmtt10</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">\font\ComputerModernromanx=cmr10</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">\font\ttix=cmtt9</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">\font\ttxi=cmtt10 at 10.95pt</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">\font\ttxii=cmtt10 at 12.0pt</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">\font\ttxiv=cmtt10 at 14.4pt</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">\font\ttxvii=cmtt10 at 17.28pt</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">\font\ttxx=cmtt10 at 20.73999pt</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">\font\ComputerModernboldx=cmbx10</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">\font\ComputerModernslantx=cmsl10</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">\font\ComputerModernitalicx=cmti10</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">2706 words of font info for 12 preloaded fonts</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">19 hyphenation exceptions</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">Hyphenation trie of length 6075 has 181 ops out of 35111</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"> 181 for language 0</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">No pages of output.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">Transcript written on lollipop.log.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">mktexfmt [INFO]: /Users/vafa/Library/texlive/2016/texmf-var/web2c/tex/lollipop.fmt installed.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">mktexfmt [INFO]: Disabled formats: 6</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">mktexfmt [INFO]: Successfully rebuilt formats: 1</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">mktexfmt [INFO]: Not selected formats: 43</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">mktexfmt [INFO]: Total formats: 50</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">mktexfmt [INFO]: exiting with status 0</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">---! /Users/vafa/Library/texlive/2016/texmf-var/web2c/tex/lollipop.fmt was written by tex</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1">(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)</span></div><br class=""><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">This is because, lollipop format should be based on Knuth tex and not pdftex. Indeed, when I look at TeXLive repository, I can confirm that only netbsd platforms have lollipop based on Knuth TeX (link tex) and all other platforms link pdftex. I believe I sent you an email and explained this clearly to you when you asked me to delete xelollipop.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">lollipop is the only tex format that I use myself and this breaks all my documents. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Could you please fix this?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Thanks</div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></div></body></html>