[XeTeX] making a format file of ConTeXt using XeTeX

[Jonathan Kew]

On 5 Mar 2005, at 11:59 am, Jonathan Kew wrote:

> I think you should put the xetex-generated formats in a "xetex" 
> directory inside .../web2c. The following entry from texmf.cnf 
> indicates that this should be searched by xetex:
>
> TEXFORMATS = .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$engine,}//
>
> In experimenting just now, I note that kpathsearch

Before people get too confused: I meant the kpsewhich tool, not 
kpathsearch in general.

And anyhow, I was wrong:
	kpsewhich -engine=xetex -show-path .fmt
will show you the search path for .fmt files for xetex.

(I'd been trying kpsewhich -program=..., which is something different 
again. Oops.)

JK

>  doesn't seem to handle the $engine variable here, so it doesn't 
> confirm the path setting properly, but using the -kpathsea-debug 
> option with xetex itself shows that the xetex subdirectory under web2c 
> is indeed checked first.
>
> JK
>
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