[XeTeX] Making a .fmt file using XeTeX

[Stephen Moye]

On Thursday, February 17, 2005, at 01:46PM, Herb Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:

>On 2/17/05 12:32 PM, "Stephen Moye" <stephenmoye at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> % sudo xetex -ini "&xetex" dumptest.tex
>
>Howdy,
>
>I'd try
>
>xetex -ini "&xetex" "*dumptest.tex"
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>(you shouldn't need the sudo if you're doing this in your home directory)
>where the * tells xetex to use extended mode and must be protected from the
>shell by the double quotes or it will get gobbled up.
>
>The use the format I'd use
>
>xetex -xfmt=dumptest xetexfile after putting it in the right place (you kow
>how to do that) and doing a ``sudo texhash'' so kpsewhich knows how to find
>it.
>
>I think that's it.
>
>Good Luck,

Thanks for the clarification. Everything is set to go.

Stephen Moye