On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 07:01:51PM -0400, Lawrence Vel?zquez wrote: > On Aug 28, 2014, at 6:18 PM, Jim Graham <[email protected]> wrote:
> The texlive-basic port already provides the pdfTeX software. That does > not mean that it provides "pdftex.fmt". Like I said, it's a transient > file. You should be able to regenerate it. That file would be part of pdfTeX.... And it always has been in the past. And, as I said, it WAS on my system. I can't even begin to explain what happened to it...there's been no drive issues, etc., to cause it to vanish. > http://verahill.blogspot.fr/2012/04/solved-latex-bug-tcfmgr-config-file.html Their solution didn't change anything. I tried searching on google, but they kept changng pdftex to pdflatex ... which is NOT what I was searching for (and I kept getting the same non-answer). But if that file was missing, I'm probably going to have to re-generate the fmt files for TeX, METAFONT, etc., too. I'm going to have to dig up my 30 year old copy of The TeXbook to remember how to re-do those files..... It's been a VERY long time (at least 10 years) since I've had to replace one (that got damaged---it was on an old Linux system where the PC itself was failing daily until I officially retired it, leaving only the FreeBSD system). Or maybe I will just grab pdfTeX from CTAN and use it instead. Thanks for trying, --jim -- THE SCORE: ME: 2 CANCER: 0 73 DE N5IAL (/4) | "Some people are like Slinkies, they serve no [email protected] | real purpose but you still get a good laugh < Running Mac OS X Lion > | when you kick them down the steps." ICBM / Hurricane: | ("borrowed" from someone else's sig) 30.44406N 86. 59909W | _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
