[XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

[George N. White III]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Chris Travers <chris.travers at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Users also don't like to discover that the publishers' LaTeX format they
>> need won't work with the distro TeX, or that a document that formats correctly
>> on a co-author's Mac or Windows system won't format on their linux system.
>> The TeX ecosystem needs some reasonable limits on how long old versions
>> should be supported.  If users can't get adequate support from their
>> distro there
>> are better supported alternatives.
>>
> Given that server software that I work with usually has at least a
> five year support cycle, what are those reasonable limits?

Five years seems to be a common support period.  If you sell a distro with
5-year support then you should know that some packages you provide
will "expire" before the 5 years is up and be prepared to provide updates.

> Or is XeTeX not intended to be used in these environments?

The 5 year limit is in LaTeX, not xetex.

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George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia