[XeTeX] xetex.xfmt not found

[Gerben Wierda]

On Jun 6, 2004, at 12:35, Peter Ringwood wrote:

> Dear Jonathan,
>
> I've been very interested to try out XeTeX, but can't seem to get past 
> first base, receiving the message when I start typesetting:
>
> This is XeTeXk, Version 3.14159-2.1-0.8 (Web2C 7.5.2)
>  %&-line parsing enabled.
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt xetex.xfmt
> fmtutil: no info for format `xetex'.
> I can't find the format file `xetex.xfmt'!
>
> I've read Gilles' letter of June 4 and your reply, and checked the 
> link you included, but no luck.  I also tried your new version 0.8 and 
> on checking the log, read:
>
> Jun  6 12:53:56 : building format files
> Jun  6 12:53:58 : fmtutil: no info for format `xetex'.
> Jun  6 12:54:00 : fmtutil: no info for format `xelatex'.
>
> I don't think my problem is hyphenation related as I was just trying 
> to set a couple of English words, so I'm a little stumped.
>
> My computer is a 1GHz PowerBook running 10.3.4 with TeXShop 1.34 and 
> Gerben Wierda's teTeX.
>
> Any thoughts would be much appreciated.
>
> Peter Ringwood
>
> PS I also tried to use your i-installer but was told "Package has 
> wrong version. Could not load. Accept defeat".

I guess you should update i-Installer first (the current version is 
2.65.2) and then try again to install the xetex package.

G