[XeTeX] how to create and install xexmltex.fmt

[William Adams]

On Oct 14, 2010, at 11:34 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote:

> FMT file is in /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-var/web2c/xetex. Because XeTeX based.
> 
> Best is to edit fmtutil.cnf (/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-var/web2c/fmtutil.cnf). Then you can use fmtutil(-sys) to create FMT files.

That was the clue I needed. Thanks!

Except I edited that file to make xetex the underlying engine for xmltex and then ran

sudo fmtutil-sys --byengine xetex

and all went well until it reached xmltex at which time I got:

.tex UTF-8 Hyphenation patterns for Ancient Greek
(/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-grc
.tex
! Nonletter.
l.37 α
       1 ε1 η1 ι1 ο1 υ1 ω1 ϊ1 ϋ1 ἀ1 ἁ1 ἂ1 ἃ1 ἄ1 ἅ1 ἆ1 ...

<LOTS MORE STUFF HERE>
(That makes 100 errors; please try again.)

William


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