[OS X TeX] TL2004 and XeTeX again

Simon Spiegel simon at simifilm.ch
Mon Oct 25 10:39:55 EDT 2004


Sorry, I was confused. The mentioned fix was necessary for the xetex 
option of the graphics package. Somehow my XeTeX installtion is 
completely screwed up now, and re-installing doesn't seem to help.

I don't see the xetex or xelatex in TeXShop anymore, and what's worse 
running xelatex from the shell doesn't work either. I get

fmtutil: unknown format type: xelatex.xfmt.
I can't find the format file `xelatex.xfmt'!

xelatex.xfmt is in web2c

XeTeX does run though, although it isn't displayed either in TeXshop, 
somehow, xelatex is broken

simon


On 25.10.2004, at 16:18, Herb Schulz wrote:

> On 10/25/04 8:18 AM, "Simon Spiegel" <simon at simifilm.ch> wrote:
>
>> I installed the new i-package and XeTeX on another machine. With the
>> experience of the first installtion, things went a lot smoother here
>> (for example my fonts run flawlessly, while I still have problems on 
>> my
>> first machine). XeTeX makes problems though: I get
>> fmtutil: no info for format `xelatex'.
>> I can't find the format file `xelatex.xfmt'!
>>
>> I had this on my first machine to, but adding the following to
>> /usr/local/teTeX/texmf.cnf helped:
>> TEXINPUTS.xelatex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{xetex,latex,generic,}//
>> TEXINPUTS.xetex   = .;$TEXMF/tex/{xetex,plain,generic,}//
>>
>> This doesn't work now.
>>
>> Help appreciated
>>
>> simon
>> --
>> Simon Spiegel
>> Mutschellenstr. 97
>> 8038 Zürich
>>
>> +41 1 481 48 52
>>
>> http://www.simifilm.ch
>
> Howdy,
>
> The xelatex.xfmt file should be in 
> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/
> (there is a link to /usr/local/teTeX/, called teTeX, in /Library/). If 
> it
> isn't there try to find where it is and move it there. If it doesn't 
> exist
> it sounds like the XeTeX package was loaded before redoing the TeX 
> package
> or it didn't go through the configuration stage.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)
>
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