[XeTeX] A few quick questions

[Jonathan Kew]

On 17 Oct 2005, at 12:55 pm, Stephen Moye wrote:

> 1. I am assuming that when XeTeX is updated, that it is necessary  
> to regenerate XeTeX *.fmt files -- yes?

Yes; they're version-specific. xetex will complain "(Fatal format  
file error; I'm stymied)" if you try to use a .fmt that was created  
by an older release.

>
> 2. Thus far, I have generated a XeTeX fmt file. say xfoobar.fmt,  
> and done:
>
> sudo cp xfoobar.fmt /usr/local/tetex/share/texmf.local/web2c/
>
> Is this correct? Is there anything else I should be doing?

You should then "sudo texhash /usr/local/tetex/share/texmf.local/", I  
believe.

>
> 3. Is there some place I can put xfoobar.fmt (or something I can  
> do) to prevent it from being clobbered when I update TeX using the  
> i-Installer?

An alternative would be to put your formats in ~/Library/texmf/web2c  
(assuming you only want them available to a single user).

JK