<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>Am 22.12.2006 um 03:04 schrieb Dennis Drescher:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>The pragmatic way is often the way not to do things I guess.<BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>You're guessing wrong. BTW, pragmatic is not what you think you're doing.</DIV><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV> So I took a look at fmtutil and fmtutil-sys using the --help command. Still being </DIV> <DIV>very much a novice user,<BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Therefore manual pages are included particularly for you.</DIV><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV> the nearest I could figure is that I needed to run "fmtutil" and "sudo fmtutil-sys" to create my .fmt files in their proper place, which seems to be /home/dennis/.texmf-var/web2c and </DIV> <DIV>/var/lib/texmf/web2c.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>And again it's obvious that you did read, though, but did not understand. It's *either* fmtutil-sys or fmtutil. And because you obviously do not know enough of what you're doing and do not intend to learn you should not touch fmtutil.</DIV><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Both of these utilities did create a bunch of .fmt files in both these </DIV> <DIV>locations. However, they did *not* create the xetex.fmt<BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Of course not! Did you enable them? Did you look into the install-xetex and rebuild-formats scripts that came with the xetex source? Did you at least notice which utility created which files to learn a bit?</DIV><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>So, my question at this point is, how do I get a xetex.fmt file, in the right place, the right way?</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Either add these three lines to fmtutil_cnf (à la teTeX):</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN># XeTeX formats</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>xetex<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>xetex<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>-<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>*xetex.ini</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>xelatex<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>xetex<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>language.dat<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>*xelatex.ini</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>or those four lines (à la TeX Live):</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN># XeTeX-based formats using etex, eplain, and latex macros</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>xetex xetex - <SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN> -etex xetex.ini</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>xeplain xetex language.dat -etex xeplain.ini</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>xelatex xetex language.dat -etex xelatex.ini</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Invoke</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>sudo fmtutil-sys --enablefmt xetex</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>sudo fmtutil-sys --enablefmt xelatex</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>sudo fmtutil-sys --byfmt xetex</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>sudo fmtutil-sys --byfmt xelatex</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The last two commands create the xetex and xelatex FMT files. Fmtutil also understands options to create all missing FMT files at once.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>And then read how to clean up the mess in your system! Maybe formatting the disk and re-installing the OS is more pragmatic ...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>--</DIV><DIV>Greetings<BR></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lucida Sans Typewriter; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Hoefler Text; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="; font-family: Hoefler Text; font-size: 12px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Sans Typewriter" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;; font-family: Lucida Sans Typewriter; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Lucida Sans Typewriter; font-size: 10px; "> Pete</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="; font-family: Hoefler Text; font-size: 12px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Sans Typewriter" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;; font-family: Lucida Sans Typewriter; "><BR style="; font-family: Lucida Sans Typewriter; font-size: 10px; "></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="; font-family: Hoefler Text; font-size: 12px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Sans Typewriter" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;; font-family: Lucida Sans Typewriter; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Lucida Sans Typewriter; font-size: 10px; ">Some day we may discover how to make magnets that can point in any direction.</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>