[XeTeX] xelatex.fmt not found after update

Jon Breitenbucher kahless at mac.com
Fri Oct 7 01:54:55 CEST 2005


On Oct 6, 2005, at 7:31 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

>
> On Oct 6, 2005, at 6:10 PM, Jon Breitenbucher wrote:
>
>
>> ...
>> I did sudo fmtutil --fmtdir /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/ 
>> web2c --all but I suppose --missing would have worked. This was  
>> after I edited /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/ 
>> fmtutil.cnf to uncomment xetex. Not sure why it was commented. I  
>> know I enabled it during install.
>>
>
> Howdy,
>
> Check to see if the xetex.fmt and xelatex.fmt files, etc., are now  
> in ~/Library/texmf/web2c/ rather than the ``global'' .../ 
> texmf.local/web2c/. If the formats are in your personal branch of  
> the TDS then you should use fmtutil-sys rather than fmtutil.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)
>

Sorry, I was indicating that the --fmtdir option would allow one to  
use fmtutil instead of fmtutil-sys. I could have been more clear. I  
do indeed have the formats in the global location.
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