Re: using fmtutil as user (non-root)

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Richard Lewis <rtf@jabble.com> schrieb:

> Hi all, I don't know if this is a bug in fmtutil or in my understanding
>
> I am trying to use welsh hyphenation patterns from
>
> <http://www.tug.org/ftp/texlive/Contents/testinstalled/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/cyhyphen.tex>
> [you also need cathyph.tex form the same directory]
>
> I can do it as root by editing /etc/texmf/language.dat but how can I
> do this as a normal user? (I need to do this on a machine where I have
> no root access, but I'm trying to do this with Debian testing first)
[...]
> Then doing
> HOMETEXMF=./texmf VARTEXMF=./texmf \
>   fmtutil --cnffile=./texmf/web2c/ecylatex.cnf \
>           --byfmt ecylatex
>
> Generates the format file, but it looks like it's using the
> system-wide language.dat (with lots of patterns loaded, but not the
> welsh). 

There seems to be a bug in fmtutil, which does not care at all about the
name of the language.dat file. 

But I think it works if you call the file "language.dat", not
"language.dat.ecylatex"

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer