[OS X TeX]

[Jonathan Kew]

I don't understand this either; it worked for me when I tried the 
%&program feature in a beta of TeXShop. The attempt to run mktexfmt 
implies that xetex.xfmt is not being found, which makes me think that 
TeXShop is calling xetex with a slightly different environment in the 
different cases (so perhaps it's not finding the same texmf.cnf file or 
something?).

The message
>> fmtutil: config file `' not found.
is, I think, a result of an incorrect patch to fmtutil by the XeTeX 
installer (sorry; I'll try to get this fixed in the next release). It's 
presumably looking for fmtutil.cnf. But in any case, it shouldn't be 
trying to run fmtutil at all, because you've got the format file 
already installed.

Puzzled....

Jonathan

On 1 Sep 2004, at 8:26 am, Robert Voogdgeert wrote:

> Stephen,
>
>
> I don't understand why you get this error message, supposing you have 
> installed everything correctly. You could try to reach Jonathan on the 
> xetex mailinglist, though I think he's on this list as well.
> Mind that you should have xelatex.xfmt and xetex.xfmt in the web2c dir.
>
>
> Robert.
>
> Op 1-sep-04 om 2:28 heeft Stephen Moye het volgende geschreven:
>
>> I have a problem. I am trying to use the new TeXShop %&program=xetex 
>> functionality. When I do that or use the drop down menu to get 
>> xetex), I get this error message:
>>
>> This is XeTeXk, Version 3.14159-2.1-0.84 (Web2C 7.5.2)
>>  %&-line parsing enabled.
>> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt xetex.xfmt
>> fmtutil: config file `' not found.
>> I can't find the format file `xetex.xfmt'!
>>
>> yet when I go to TeXShop preferences Misc>TeX Program to set xetex as 
>> the default, everything works ok.
>>
>> The only copy of xetex.xfmt I can find is in 
>> /usr/local.teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/.
>>
>> Is this right?
>>
>> Help! ;>}
>>
>> Stephen Moye
>>
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