On 17 Oct 2005, at 12:55 pm, Stephen Moye wrote:
1. I am assuming that when XeTeX is updated, that it is necessary
to regenerate XeTeX *.fmt files -- yes?
Yes; they're version-specific. xetex will complain "(Fatal format
file error; I'm stymied)" if you try to use a .fmt that was created
by an older release.
2. Thus far, I have generated a XeTeX fmt file. say xfoobar.fmt,
and done:
sudo cp xfoobar.fmt /usr/local/tetex/share/texmf.local/web2c/
Is this correct? Is there anything else I should be doing?
You should then "sudo texhash /usr/local/tetex/share/texmf.local/", I
believe.
3. Is there some place I can put xfoobar.fmt (or something I can
do) to prevent it from being clobbered when I update TeX using the
i-Installer?
An alternative would be to put your formats in ~/Library/texmf/web2c
(assuming you only want them available to a single user).
JK
