[tex-live] Cyrillic Russian version of Plain TeX TL7

[Vladimir Volovich]

Hi!

"SG" == Stewart, George writes:

 SG> This supercedes my previous message.  I am trying to make
 SG> russified version of Plain TeX.  I think I have all the files in
 SG> place, after reading readme from cyrplain folder.

 SG> I edited makefmts.bat so that it makes only one format file, the
 SG> one I want, which is cyrplain.fmt.

 SG> But when I try to run the batch file, I get an error.  The batch
 SG> file contains the following command:

 SG>    tex386.exe -i -8 -o -mt18000 cyrtex.ini

 SG> However, my TL7 does not include tex386.exe instead it has
 SG> tex.exe.

 SG> Additionally, the arguments to tex do not include -i and -8 and
 SG> mt18000. I assume there are equivalent arguments for the tex that
 SG> I have but the tex -help does not tell me which to use (I assume
 SG> -i equates to -ini, but otherwise I am in the dark).

You should run the command from makefmts.sh but not from makefmts.bat:

tex -ini -fmt=cyrtex -progname=tex cyrtex.ini

Best,
v.