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I am endeavouring to build Stephan von Bechtolsheim's <i>TeX in
Practice</i> format but having little success. I tried initially
:<br>
<ul>
<li>XeTeX ^&texip</li>
</ul>
<p>but was told :</p>
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<blockquote type="cite">kpathsea: Running mktexfmt texip.fmt<br>
<br>
The command name is D:\TeX\Live\2018\Bin\win32\mktexfmt<br>
Running the command D:\TeX\Live\2018\Bin\win32\fmtutil-user.exe<br>
fmtutil: fmtutil is using the following fmtutil.cnf files (in
precedence order):<br>
<br>
fmtutil: d:/tex/live/2018/texmf-dist/web2c/fmtutil.cnf<br>
fmtutil: fmtutil is using the following fmtutil.cnf file for
writing changes:<br>
fmtutil: c:/users/philip
taylor.fujitsu-pc/.texlive2018/texmf-config/web2c/fmt<br>
util.cnf<br>
fmtutil [INFO]: writing formats under c:/users/philip
taylor.fujitsu-pc/.texlive<br>
2018/texmf-var/web2c<br>
fmtutil [INFO]: did not find entry for byfmt=texip, skipped<br>
fmtutil [INFO]: Disabled formats: 6<br>
fmtutil [INFO]: Not selected formats: 44<br>
fmtutil [INFO]: Total formats: 50<br>
fmtutil [INFO]: exiting with status 0<br>
Sorry, I can't find the format `texip.fmt'<br>
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<p>The last seemed reasonable, and "did not find entry for
byfmt=texip" quite possible, so I then tried :<br>
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<ul>
<li>XeTeX -i \input texipexp \dump</li>
</ul>
<p>for all variants of "-i" of which I could think ("-initex", "/i",
"/initex" and so on ...). None of these seemed able to tip XeTeX
into iniTeX mode, and the command "iniXeTeX" was not found. <br>
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<p>How, please, should I build the "TeX in Practice" format ? How
do I persuade the system to write the format into $TEXMFLOCAL
rather than c:/users/philip taylor.fujitsu-pc/.texlive2018/texmf-var/web2c
? And how does one interrogate XeTeX (or another TeX Live engine
binary) to find out what command-line parameters and/or qualifiers
it will accept ?<br>
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<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
<Signature><br>
Philip Taylor</div>
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