Re: Debian Bug#338046: whizzytex: einitex unavailable from tetex and no longer functions.

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

Hi,

> > anyway, the following changes will be applied to Debian whizzytex default
> > configuration to work around the problem.
> 
> ... and cause a new one sooner or later.
> 
> > -FMT=efmt
> > +FMT=fmt
> 
> As I said previously, and as it is documented in the Debian TeX Policy
> Draft, the format should not be hardcoded.  As you found out, the code I
> gave to you gives a wrong result on sarge, but that is a bug in the
> sarge teTeX packages that is fixed in sid, and you can rely on it not to
> reoccurr:  We introduced it deliberately to work around other package's
> bugs in sarge, but we won't do this again, but instead refer those
> packages to the TeX Policy.

$ kpsewhich --format fmt latex
/var/lib/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt
$ kpsewhich --format fmt platex
/var/lib/texmf/web2c/platex.fmt

It seems like it's going to get reasonable results.

BTW, how would I find out that /var/lib/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt
is in fact not generated from tex, but pdfetex?
I have an impression that 'epfmt' is probably the 
extention for such files.


$ tex -ini '&latex'
This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.4) (INITEX)
---! /var/lib/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt was written by pdfetex
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)

$ pdfetex -ini '&latex'
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) (INITEX)
entering extended mode
LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
Babel <v3.8d> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, b
ahasa, basque, bulgarian, catalan, croatian, czech, danish, dutch, esperanto, e
stonian, finnish, greek, icelandic, irish, italian, latin, magyar, norsk, polis
h, portuges, romanian, russian, serbian, slovak, slovene, spanish, swedish, tur
kish, ukrainian, nohyphenation, loaded.

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regards,
	junichi