[OS X TeX] Re: [XeTeX] ArabXeTeX pre-release

[Bruno Voisin]

Le 28 nov. 06 à 16:38, Anas Ghrab a écrit :

> This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.99b (Web2C 7.5.3)
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt xetex.fmt
> fmtutil: format directory `/Users/anas/Library/texmf/web2c' does not
> exist.
> I can't find the format file `xetex.fmt'!

XeTeX shouldn't be looking, on OS X, for format files inside ~/ 
Library/texmf/web2c/, these should have been created at install time  
inside /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/ (teTeX-based setup)  
or /usr/local/TeXLive/texmf.local/web2c/ (TeXLive-based setup).

This probably comes from using fmtutil instead of fmtutil-sys, or  
using sudo inappropriately. This has been a tricky issue on OS X ever  
since the choice of per-user vs. system-wide configurations has been  
introduced one or two years ago in teTeX and TeXLive, and this has  
generated innumerable threads and bug reports on the OS X TeX list.

The correct invocation should be, I think:

	sudo -H fmtutil-sys

for a system-wide setup, and

	fmtutil

for a per-user setup. Using instead "sudo fmtutil" would result in  
root-owned files in the user home directory, creating havoc. What you  
see can be the result of this.

Gerben Wierda has recently provided a fix in the latest versions of  
the TeX i-Package, in which fmtutil (and similarly updmap) is made to  
behave as fmtutil-sys (and updmap-sys), effectively prohibiting per- 
user setups. This ensures backwards compatibility with the former  
incarnations of fmtutil and updmap.

Hence, I would advise to run the Configure stage of the TeX i-Package  
in Expert mode, and, when asked at the very end of the process, to  
allow for compatibility measures to be taken. I'm not sure whether  
this also suppresses any mishapen format file in ~/Library/texmf/ 
web2c/, as is required. I don't have time to check now, but you could  
try to turn to the OS X TeX list for more help.

Bruno Voisin

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