Hi I'm currnelty trying all kind of things on linux and mac, but somehow i got the feeling that either engine support in the unix versions is broken or that it' ssimply not implemented kpsewhich --engine=pdfetex cont-en.fmt works ok on windows but not on unix; unfortunately we cannot use pdfetex -fmt=pdfetex/cont-en either; this works ok windows, but not on unix; this is why it's nearly impossible to get engine support working on unix. I know that TE is not willing to support the engine structure but kpse should at least work the same on all platforms. One workaround is that I force the engine and format vars inside texexec (kind of misusing the kpse feature that a preset emv var is not overloaded, which in the case of engin edoes not happen anyway). This seems to work. Quite a waste of time. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------