Re: Bug#483885: XeTeX-support totally b0rken

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

On Sa, 31 Mai 2008, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote:
> Even the simplest Hello world -document refuse to compile, if it is
> fmtutil: /home/juhtolv/.texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/cont-en.fmt installed.
> ---! /home/juhtolv/.texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/cont-en.fmt was written by

That is a bug we cannot handle (now), mktexfmt/fmtutil is not
intelligent enough (missing understanding of engine setting).

You should do 
as root:
- edit /etc/texmf/fmt.d/20context.cnf and add a line
	cont-en xetex   cont-usr.tex    -8bit -etex *cont-en.ini

  (alternatively you can create a local file under /etc/texmf/fmt.d)

- call update-fmtutil
- call
	fmtutil-sys --cnffile /etc/texmf/fmt.d/20context.cnf --all

That will create a format file for context/xetex.

Best wishes

Norbert

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