[tex-live] Building the "TeX in Practice" format and saving it in a sensible location

Joseph Wright joseph.wright at morningstar2.co.uk
Sun Dec 2 20:50:12 CET 2018


On 02/12/2018 19:48, Philip Taylor wrote:
> I am endeavouring to build Stephan von Bechtolsheim's /TeX in Practice/ format
> but having little success.  I tried initially :
> 
>    * XeTeX ^&texip
> 
> but was told :
> 
>> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt texip.fmt
>>
>> The command name is D:\TeX\Live\2018\Bin\win32\mktexfmt
>> Running the command D:\TeX\Live\2018\Bin\win32\fmtutil-user.exe
>> fmtutil: fmtutil is using the following fmtutil.cnf files (in precedence order):
>>
>> fmtutil:   d:/tex/live/2018/texmf-dist/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
>> fmtutil: fmtutil is using the following fmtutil.cnf file for writing changes:
>> fmtutil:   c:/users/philip taylor.fujitsu-pc/.texlive2018/texmf-config/web2c/fmt
>> util.cnf
>> fmtutil [INFO]: writing formats under c:/users/philip taylor.fujitsu-pc/.texlive
>> 2018/texmf-var/web2c
>> fmtutil [INFO]: did not find entry for byfmt=texip, skipped
>> fmtutil [INFO]: Disabled formats: 6
>> fmtutil [INFO]: Not selected formats: 44
>> fmtutil [INFO]: Total formats: 50
>> fmtutil [INFO]: exiting with status 0
>> Sorry, I can't find the format `texip.fmt'
> 
> The last seemed reasonable, and "did not find entry for byfmt=texip" quite
> possible, so I then tried :
> 
>    * XeTeX -i \input texipexp \dump

The switch is -ini

Joseph



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