[XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 18.10.2011 um 10:30 schrieb Chris Travers:

> Is there any way to manually create this file?

TeX Live comes with a utility, fmtutil-sys. It allows to create FMT files for the *system*. Private FMT files can be created with fmtutil. The former is kind of a wrapper for the latter, so the only man page exists for the latter. The script also gives some hints when invoked with --help.

It's also possible to create a local "patch file" for the fmtutil configure file, /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/web2c/fmtutil-local.cnf. To apply that "patch" you'll need to run tlmgr and make it regenerate the configure files. This procedure is described in some top level TeX Live documentation, maybe doc.html.

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