David Gonz�lez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>I haven't used TeX/MusiXTeX for a few days, today I tried to TeX one of >my
scores, and I got the following message: "I can't find the default >format
file" but everything is installed, this just happened all of a >sudden, A
Windows message said:
>
>INITEXMF provocated an exception c06d007eH in the module INITEXMF.EXE of
>0257:00403bbf.
>Registry
... snip ...
>
>
>As I had made some changes in my PMX file, I thought that was the cause,
>but I tried some other files, and I have the same problem.
>
>Before sending this message I decided to reser my PC, but the problem
>persisted.
>
>Can somebody help me?
David:
It is very unlikely that your musixtex has caused this. From the error
message it is more likely that something got changed in your TeX setup. The
first thing Tex does is to load a "format" file. (Often this is Plain.fmt
... I have EmTex installed.)
I suggest that you search your system for all *.Fmt files and assure that
they exist, then check environment variables to be sure they are still setup
correctly. For example, in my EmTex installation, I need to have "SET
EMTEXDIR=C:\EMTEX" in the Autoexec.bat, or the environment setup in order
for TeX to find the format files. Ultimately (to do musixtex), you need to
load musixtex.fmt, which is typically stored in the same place you Plain.fmt
file is found.
A final test, to see what is happening is to just enter TeX from the command
line.... When I do that, I see the following output.
> tex plain
This is emTeX (tex386), Version 3.14159 [4b] (no format preloaded)
**plain
(c:/emtex/texinput/etc/plain.tex Preloading the plain format: codes,
registers, parameters, fonts, more fonts, macros, math definitions,
output routines, hyphenation (c:/emtex/texinput/etc/hyphen.tex
! Patterns can be loaded only by INITEX.
l.2 \patterns
{ % just type <return> if you're not using INITEX
? x
No pages of output.
Transcript written on plain.log.
That way you can see whether TeX is finding the format file.
Joel Hunsberger
