[tex-live] initex '&FORMAT' with whizzytex
David Kastrup
dak at gnu.org
Fri Oct 22 14:25:16 CEST 2004
Olaf Weber <olaf at infovore.xs4all.nl> writes:
> Stefano Lodi writes:
>
>> There must be something terribly wrong with my installations (I tried
>> TeXLive on two different systems, user the same iso file for both
>> installations). Here's what I get:
>
>> /usr/local/TeXLive/bin/i386-linux> ./pdfetex '&latex'
>> This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.11a-2.1 (Web2C 7.5.2)
>> %&-line parsing enabled.
>> (/usr/local/TeXLive/texmf/web2c/cp8bit.tcx)
>> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
>
> This almost certainly means pdfetex is not the engine for which the
> latex format was created (it will be in the upcoming TeX-live). You
> may want to verify to which engine the latex symlink points, and use
> that one.
We basically had the same problem with preview-latex, which also uses
predumped formats. The only reliable way with a web2c-based system of
the last years to dump and restore a format I have found is to use
latex -ini '&latex' whatever '\dump'
and then
latex '&whatever' ...
resp.
pdflatex -ini '&pdflatex' whatever '\dump'
pdflatex '&whatever'
Anything else will cause problem with one or the other format/engine
combination from the last few years.
You might want to report that suggestion to the author of WhizzyTeX
(as a friendly hint from the competition).
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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