[XeTeX] Re: version 0.88

[Jonathan Kew]

On 13 Oct 2004, at 9:24 am, Yves Codet wrote:

>
> Le 13 oct. 04, à 01:20, Simon Spiegel a écrit :
>
>> I'm not only unable to install version 0.88 from the disc image, but 
>> I get a broken installation when doing it with the i-installer. After 
>> this installation I get the following:
>>
>> This is XeTeXk, Version 3.14159-2.1-0.88 (Web2C 7.5.2)
>>  %&-line parsing enabled.
>> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
>>
>
> I have the same result. It seems that formats have been deleted 
> without being replaced (kpsewhich doesn't find any).

I don't think they're being deleted, or you'd see a different error. 
The i-Package configuration script must be failing to rebuild them, 
though. I'd be interested to see the "subprocess output" of such a 
failed installation, if anyone has one.

kpsewhich won't find them because it doesn't know about the .xfmt 
extension; you'd have to say
	kpsewhich --format=fmt xetex.xfmt
	kpsewhich --format=fmt xelatex.xfmt
and then you should see where they are.

> I compiled them myself

...so running fmtutil in the Terminal worked OK?

> I have another small difficulty. I have been testing Sanskrit 
> hyphenation patterns for a few months. So far they worked well. Since 
> version 0.871 they don't seem to be used by XeTeX. They are loaded 
> when I compile a format and typeset a file but words aren't hyphenated 
> anymore. I'm using them exactly the same way as before (I think). What 
> could have happened?

I don't know; I'll try to look into this. You'd be welcome to send me a 
sample of your patterns and input text, so I can test those specific 
examples.

Jonathan