[XeTeX] ConTeXt and XeTeX set up

[Hans Hagen]

Otared Kavian wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Due to some problems I recently had with fonts in ConTeXt I re-installed 
> everything anew and noticed that the latest version of ConTeXt (version 
> 2005.06.27), when creating a format with XeTeX with
> 
> sudo texexec --make --xtx en
> 
> installs a format "cont-en.fmt" in a new directory "xetex" inside
> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c.
> 
> However when one tries to typeset a file "sample.tex" in CLI with
> texexec --xtx sample.tex
> 
> it complains that "cont-en.fmt" was created with pdftex.
> I solved the problem by changing the line
> TEXFORMATS    = .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$engine,}
> 
> in the file "/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/context.cnf" into
> TEXFORMATS    = .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$engine,xetex,}
> 
> So my question is whether this change is "legal" or is it going to have 
> other unwanted effects?

looks legal to me; btw, the latext texexec is supposed to deal with it

Hans

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