[XeTeX] making a format file of ConTeXt using XeTeX

Jonathan Kew jonathan_kew at sil.org
Fri Mar 4 10:04:50 CET 2005


On 4 Mar 2005, at 7:16 am, Dalyoung wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Last December, I have made a format file(cont-en.xfmt) of ConTeXt 
> using XeTeX by the help of Mr. Lindsay.
> At that time, I had some trouble to produce the format file, but 
> finally got the file "cont-en.xfmt".
> Today, I updated my TeX to TeX 2005, ConTeXt, and XeTeX.
> I had no problem to compile using xetex, xelatex, and context(not 
> XeTeX).
>
> However, when I tried  to make a format file of ConTeXt using XeTeX,
> 	"sudo texexec --xtx --make --alone en"  (this worked before)
> it asked me to input xplain.tex. I couldn't locate the file xplain.tex.
>

The file formerly called xplain.tex has been renamed to 
unicode-letters.tex, so you need to update whatever script or other 
file creates the context format. (Or you could make a symlink to the 
old name.)

JK



More information about the XeTeX mailing list