[XeTeX] Problem making .fmt

[Stephen Moye]

On Mar 2, 2006, at 8:44 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

>
> On Mar 2, 2006, at 7:00 AM, Stephen Moye wrote:
>
>> I went through the usual steps to make a XeTeX .fmt file but I get  
>> ths error in TeXShop:
>>
>> This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.99b (Web2C 7.5.3)
>> ---! XGenealogue.fmt doesn't match xetex.pool
>> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
>>
>> I think the right .pool file is being looked at:
>>
>> GenealogueFiles% kpsewhich xetex.pool
>> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/xetex.pool
>>
>>
>> What am I missing?
>>
>> Perplexed.
>>
>> SGM
>>
>
> Howdy,
>
> What command are you using to create the .fmt file. I make a xetex  
> format, xtmm.fmt, here using a tiny script (so I don't have to  
> remember the incantation):
>
> #!/bin/bash
> xetex -ini -progname=xetex "*xtmm.ini"
>
> I don't know if the `-progname=xetex' is needed but it all works.  
> I've them built a TeXShop engine I call xetmm.engine with the contents
>
> #!/bin/bash
> xetex -shell-escape -fmt=xtmm -progname=xetex "$1"
>
> (to make sure the engine file has the execute bit set I usually  
> start by copying one of the existant ones and rename and change its  
> contents)
>
> Finally I add the lines
>
> %!TEX TS-program = xetmm
> %!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
>
> to the top of my .tex file.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)

Somewhere I got this (I'm using tcsh):

xetex -ini "&xetex" foobar.tex

to get foobar.fmt

Up to now that has worked like a charm...

SGM