[XeTeX] Re: version 0.88

[Jonathan Kew]

On 13 Oct 2004, at 12:20 am, Simon Spiegel wrote:

> I'm not only unable to install version 0.88 from the disc image, but I 
> get a broken installation when doing it with the i-installer. After 
> this installation I get the following:
>
> This is XeTeXk, Version 3.14159-2.1-0.88 (Web2C 7.5.2)
>  %&-line parsing enabled.
> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
>
>
> De-Installing XeTeX and re-installing it (both with the i-installer) 
> didn't change anything.
>

It's failing to rebuild the format file during installation. To see 
why, you'd need to look at the "subprocess output" in i-Installer, or 
you could try the format creation from the Terminal and see what errors 
are occurring. Appropriate Terminal commands to recreate the format 
files would be:
	sudo fmtutil --byfmt xetex
	sudo fmtutil --byfmt xelatex

One possibility is that your LaTeX configuration is trying to load a 
hyphenation file that is incompatible with XeTeX (because of using 
Latin-1 8-bit characters, for example). But that's only a guess; the 
log output of attempted format creation should confirm just what's 
going wrong.

Jonathan