[tex-live] initex '&FORMAT' with whizzytex
Stefano Lodi
slodi at deis.unibo.it
Fri Oct 22 01:04:56 CEST 2004
Thanks for replying Karl.
Karl Berry wrote:
>Hi Stefano,
>
> Any help on how one could simulate the "old" behaviour so
> that I can feed the whizzytex script with a initex wrapper it can use,
> is appreciated.
>
>If you make initex a symlink to pdfetex, in the TL bin directory, it
>should work. As in:
>cd /wherever/tl/bin/i386-linux
>ln -s pdfetex initex
>
>If that's inconvenient, you could make an initex shell script (and put
>it anywhere):
>
>#!/bin/sh
>exec /wherever/tl/bin/i386-linux/pdfetex -ini "$@"
>
>I just tried both of these and got a dummy.fmt from a dummy.tex
>containing the one line "\dump".
>
>
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)
~> /usr/local/TeXLive/bin/i386-linux/pdfetex '&latex' dummy.tex
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)
>Why does it need a format, anyway? Are there that many macros? Just curious.
>
>Hope this helps ...
>
>karl
>
>
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