[tex-live] Lollipop is broken in TeXlive 2016

[Alessandro Languasco]

I see the same problem Vafa Khalighi wrote both on my mac with mactex-2016
and my linux box with texlive 2016.

Bests, 	Alessandro



> On 16 Jun 2016, at 03:31, Vafa Khalighi <vk489 at uowmail.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi Karl
> 
> lollipop is broken in TeXLive 2016. Create a simple lollipop document
> 
> \Start
> This is a test.
> \Stop
> 
> and process it with `lollipop test.tex' and this is the error you get
> 
> %%%%%%%%%%
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.17 (TeX Live 2016) (preloaded format=lollipop)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
> 
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt lollipop.fmt
> mktexfmt: mktexfmt is using the following fmtutil.cnf files (in precedence order):
> mktexfmt:   /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
> mktexfmt: mktexfmt is using the following fmtutil.cnf file for writing changes:
> mktexfmt:   /Users/vafa/Library/texlive/2016/texmf-config/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
> mktexfmt [INFO]: writing formats under /Users/vafa/Library/texlive/2016/texmf-var/web2c
> mktexfmt [INFO]: --- remaking lollipop with tex
> mktexfmt: running `tex -ini   -jobname=lollipop -progname=lollipop lollipop.ini' ...
> This is TeXk, Version 3.14159265 (TeX Live 2016) (INITEX)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
> (/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/lollipop/lollipop.ini
> (/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/lollipop/lollipop.tex
> (/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/lollipop/lollipop-plain.tex
> (/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyphen/hyphen.tex))
> (/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/lollipop/lollipop-tools.tex)
> (/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/lollipop/lollipop-define.tex)
> (/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/lollipop/lollipop-fonts.tex)
> (/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/lollipop/lollipop-fontdefs.tex)
> (/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/lollipop/lollipop-text.tex)
> (/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/lollipop/lollipop-document.tex)
> (/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/lollipop/lollipop-heading.tex)
> (/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/lollipop/lollipop-output.tex)
> (/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/lollipop/lollipop-float.tex)
> (/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/lollipop/lollipop-lists.tex)
> ) )
> Beginning to dump on file lollipop.fmt
>  (preloaded format=lollipop 2016.6.16)
> 3422 strings of total length 48580
> 33354 memory locations dumped; current usage is 158&33023
> 2325 multiletter control sequences
> \font\nullfont=nullfont
> \font\exx=cmex10
> \font\ttx=cmtt10
> \font\ComputerModernromanx=cmr10
> \font\ttix=cmtt9
> \font\ttxi=cmtt10 at 10.95pt
> \font\ttxii=cmtt10 at 12.0pt
> \font\ttxiv=cmtt10 at 14.4pt
> \font\ttxvii=cmtt10 at 17.28pt
> \font\ttxx=cmtt10 at 20.73999pt
> \font\ComputerModernboldx=cmbx10
> \font\ComputerModernslantx=cmsl10
> \font\ComputerModernitalicx=cmti10
> 2706 words of font info for 12 preloaded fonts
> 19 hyphenation exceptions
> Hyphenation trie of length 6075 has 181 ops out of 35111
>   181 for language 0
> No pages of output.
> Transcript written on lollipop.log.
> mktexfmt [INFO]: /Users/vafa/Library/texlive/2016/texmf-var/web2c/tex/lollipop.fmt installed.
> mktexfmt [INFO]: Disabled formats: 6
> mktexfmt [INFO]: Successfully rebuilt formats: 1
> mktexfmt [INFO]: Not selected formats: 43
> mktexfmt [INFO]: Total formats: 50
> mktexfmt [INFO]: exiting with status 0
> ---! /Users/vafa/Library/texlive/2016/texmf-var/web2c/tex/lollipop.fmt was written by tex
> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
> 
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> 
> 
> This is because, lollipop format should be based on Knuth tex and not pdftex. Indeed, when I look at TeXLive repository, I can confirm that only netbsd platforms have lollipop based on Knuth TeX (link tex) and all other platforms link pdftex. I believe I sent you an email and explained this clearly to you when you asked me to delete xelollipop.
> 
> lollipop is the only tex format that I use myself and this breaks all my documents. 
> 
> Could you please fix this?
> 
> Thanks

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