[tex-live] %&format

Gerben Wierda Sherlock@rna.nl
Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:06:03 +0100


Someone wrote on the Mac OS X TeX list:

> I just did a clean reinstall of teTeX with i-installer.  I then 
> rebuilt my own formats.  Now tex and pdftex do not use the first line 
> %&format to load the format file.  However, tex --fmt format finds my 
> formats without any problem, so it does not seem to be a searching 
> issue.  For example
>
> home> cat test.tex
> %&texsis
>
> test
>
> \bye
>
> home> tex test
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.8)  [NOTE FORMAT NOT LOADED]
> (./test.tex [1] )
> Output written on test.dvi (1 page, 212 bytes).
> Transcript written on test.log.
>
> home> tex --fmt texsis test
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.8)
> (./test.tex
> TeXsis version 2.16 (12 November 1994) format preloaded.
> (/usr/local/teTeX.local/texmf/tex/texsis/misc/TXSpatch.tex)
> (/Users/steve/Library/texmf/tex/TXSmods.tex) [1] )
> Output written on test.dvi (1 page, 212 bytes).
> Transcript written on test.log.

given that he uses

This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.8)

and given that I have seen discussions about this issue (but I haven't 
followed the discussions), has this to do with a more recent web2c 
version?

G