Dear TeX fans, 13/11/16 it is the first time I post anything on this list: I have used LaTeX for lectures, slides, conference papers, etc. for many years, I have a complete reference book, and always found answers in it or on the Web. This time, I am quite stuck! One Japanese colleague has used XeTeX on her Mac and passed me her files to do some debugging concerning the bibliography.
I am using TeXShop (latest version), I reinstalled MacLive, and then MacTeX-2016, which are supposed to come with XeTeX. No way. The message is always the same. Trying to complie from TeXShop: kpathsea: Running mktexfmt xelatex.fmt warning: Configuration file texmf.cnf not found! Searched these directories: /opt/local/bin:/opt/local:/opt:/opt/local/bin/share/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/share/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/share/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/bin/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/bin/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/bin/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/texmf/web2c:/opt/texmf/web2c:/.:/opt/local/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/share/texmf/web2c Trying to proceed... /opt/local/bin/mktexfmt: line 336: /texconfig/tcfmgr: No such file or directory fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found. I can't find the format file `xelatex.fmt'! Or, trying xelatex directly: ...Mutsuko-Cogalex-20161112-rvCB: xelatex CogCog-Alex-20161112-rvCB.tex warning: Configuration file texmf.cnf not found! Searched these directories: /opt/local/bin:/opt/local:/opt:/opt/local/bin/share/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/share/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/share/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/bin/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/bin/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/bin/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/texmf/web2c:/opt/texmf/web2c:/.:/opt/local/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/share/texmf/web2c Trying to proceed... This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996-patch1 (Web2C 7.5.6) kpathsea: Running mktexfmt xelatex.fmt warning: Configuration file texmf.cnf not found! Searched these directories: /opt/local/bin:/opt/local:/opt:/opt/local/bin/share/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/share/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/share/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/bin/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/bin/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/bin/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/texmf/web2c:/opt/texmf/web2c:/.:/opt/local/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/share/texmf/web2c Trying to proceed... /opt/local/bin/mktexfmt: line 336: /texconfig/tcfmgr: No such file or directory fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found. I can't find the format file `xelatex.fmt'! I then tried to reinstall separately XeTeX (version 0.9993). The build (using build.sh) was quite successful, and created after a quite long process a directory named "build-x86_64" and apparently correctly built. But I DON'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO FINISH THE INSTALL, which should place the files where expected. The INSTALL file (inside build-x86_64) says somewhat cryptically: INSTALL for XeTeX Snapshots This distribution is essentially a stripped-down version of the TeXlive distribution with some additional libraries. All source code is in the directory source; the build.sh scripts will generate and populate a directory build. The actual code of XeTeX is in source/texk/web2c/xetexdir and its subdirectories. * build.sh builds a native xetex on your system * build.sh --ppc crosscompiles for osx-ppx from osx-intel * build.sh --mingw crosscompiles xetex for mingw32 on i686-linux XeTeX does not need a run-time pool file, and it locates texmf.cnf based on its relative position in the TeX tree. Post-compilation installation should be a simple matter of copying the executable to a normal place for web2c binaries and generating the desired formats. What is "the executable"? The complete directory (transformed in an .app file -- a "package")? Some of the executables in the texk>kpathsea directory? And what is "a normal place for web2c" ??? I tried hard but did not find any tutorial or online discussion on that matter. Please help! Thanks in advance, Xan
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