[XeTeX] making a format file of ConTeXt using XeTeX

[Adam Lindsay]

Jonathan Kew said this at Sat, 5 Mar 2005 12:16:24 +0000:

>> Add this line to your texmf.cnf after the TEXFORMATS definition:
>>
>>  TEXFORMATS.xetex = $TEXFORMATS/{xetex,}//
>
>Provided your TEXFORMATS is set to something like
>
>   TEXFORMATS = .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$engine,}//
>
>which I believe is the gwTeX default, there's no need for this change; 
>the $engine variable provides the necessary support for the xetex 
>subdir under texmf.local/web2c. I'd expect you can make similar subdirs 
>for other engines, too, and thus keep the .fmt files nicely separated.

Which is nice in theory, but I didn't see it happening on the night of
your XeTeX 0.90 release. If people get by with Jonathan's version of the
instructions, I'll gladly rescind my suggestions.
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