[tex-live] Building the "TeX in Practice" format and saving it in a sensible location

[Philip Taylor]

David Carlisle wrote:
> Phil
>
> xetex --help
>
> lists its command line arguments, one of which is --ini

Ah, two consecutive hyphens — I rarely think of that.  I tried all four of "/?", "-?", "/h" and "-h", but none helped.  OK, so I can now build the format; how, please, do I persuade it to save the format file under TEXMFLOCAL and not the (very obscure, and somewhere I would never think to look) default location ?


Joseph Wright wrote:
> The switch is -ini
>
> Joseph

Thank you both.
** Phil.
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