[XeTeX] xelatex.fmt doesn't match xetex.pool

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Mon Jul 9 10:12:50 CEST 2012


2012/7/9 Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa at web.de>:
>
> Am 09.07.2012 um 04:04 schrieb Gareth Hughes:
>
Start with the basic commands:
which xetex
which fmtutil-sys
which kpsewhich

If it finds your TeX Live binaries, try

kpsewhich fmtutil.cnf

>> I thought fmtutil-local.cnf was just for customisation.
>
> Indeed! And one customisation could have been to comment XeTeX related lines copied from somewhere which made tlmgr remove or comment the lines in the generated fmtutil.cnf.
>
> I thought you would check the contents of /usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-var/web2c/fmtutil.cnf to see whether XeTeX related formats are still mentioned there. One option is to simply run
>
>         fmtutil-sys --listcfg
>
> No sudo is necessary, it's a read-only process. You can compare the output with that of
>
>         fmtutil --listcfg
>
> When they're different, then you have private FMTs and you need to run
>
>         fmtutil --byengine xetex
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> or a general
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>         fmtutil --refresh
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> The options fmtutil or fmtutil-sys know can be found be found by running
>
>         fmtutil --help
>
> --
> Greetings
>
>   Pete
>
> I hope to die before I *have* to use Microsoft Word.
>                         - Donald E. Knuth, 2001-10-02 in Tübingen
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