[XeTeX] making a format file of ConTeXt using XeTeX

[Jonathan Kew]

On 5 Mar 2005, at 1:07 pm, Adam Lindsay wrote:

> 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.

If this doesn't work, I'd be interested to see the kpathsearch debug 
output from something like

	xetex -kpathsea-debug=-1 \\relax \\end

which should cause xetex to load xetex.fmt with full tracing of the 
search paths etc. For me, it's following the $engine variable 
correctly.

JK