[XeTeX] Re: [MacTeX] XeTeX

[Herb Schulz]

On 4/11/04 9:05 AM, "Ross Moore" <ross at ics.mq.edu.au> wrote:

> ...
> The values ${bindir}, ${web2cdir}, ${otfdir}  are (supposed to be) set
> within the preflight script, to be within the  texmf.local  tree.
> Thus they should survive updates.
> ...

Howdy,

When I run the lines from the prologue:

echo `which kpsewhich` | sed -e 's/kpsewhich$//'

echo `kpsewhich tex.pool` | sed -e 's/tex\.pool$//;
s/texmf\.*[^\./]*/texmf\.local/'

echo `kpsewhich cmr10.tfm` | sed -e 's/cmr10\.tfm$//; 
s/\/tfm.*/\/otf\//;
s/texmf\.*[^\./]*/texmf\.local/'

with the redirections deleted I indeed do get directories within the
texmf.local tree.

On 4/11/04 10:40 AM, "Bruno Voisin" <Bruno.Voisin at hmg.inpg.fr> wrote:

> ...
> Being able to compile custom formats and have them used by TeXShop is
> something I miss from Textures.
> ...

I have used a much easier and more local method to compile a custom 
format I
wrote in the early '90s, called tmm, that is based on Plain and is 
somewhere
between nroff's mm macros and LaTeX. I run

pdfetex -ini tmm.tex

On the tmm.tex format file (which has a \dump within it). Place the 
tmm.efmt
file in ~/Library/texmf/web2c and changed the standard pdftex command in
TeXShop with

pdfetex --efmt tmm --progname pdfetex

and it just works. I don't know if it's necessary to use the --progname
pdfetex.

Clearly not any good if you've got lots of private formats. ITeXMac 
allows
for many private formats so might be better if you need lots of them.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)

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