Re: using fmtutil as user (non-root)

[Richard Lewis <rtf@jabble.com>]

Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> writes:

> 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"
>

No, this makes it use the original, system-wide, languge.dat


Thomas Esser <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de> writes:

>> could it be that there is a bug in fmtutil, because it simply ignores
>> the hyphenation field in fmtutil.cnf?
>
> A misunderstanding!
>
> You cannot change the behaviour when building the format.


So it's impossible for a non-root user to build a custom format? Does
the new TEXMFCONFIG variable in tetex-3 make this possible?