Thanks, Hans. Apparently that is the trick. After using find to locate all cont*.fmt's and removing them, luatools generated one in its cache directory that proved to be sufficient. Must indeed be a path variable problem (TeX now has so many of them, I never seem to get them sorted out; not to mention the interplay between those in .cnf files and those in my .bashrc that drives me mad). Hans van der Meer On 17 dec 2007, at 22:24, Hans Hagen wrote:
Hans van der Meer wrote:
After starting afresh after an os update and much trouble in getting all those texmf.cnf parameters in order followed by context specialities, I finally managed to get the cont-en.fmt in /usr/local/ texlive/2007/texmf-config/web2c/pdftex/cont-en.fmt.
But now (running in TeXShop) typesetting will not occur:
TeXExec | processing document 'test.tex' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1 TeXExec | writing option file test.top TeXExec | using randomseed 1100 TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.5 (Web2C 7.5.6) \write18 enabled. %&-line parsing enabled. (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx) (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied) TeXExec | runtime: 0.601367
In texmf.cnf I have TEXFORMATS = .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$engine,}// (worked in the past) What's wrong here?
remove *all* cont-en.fmt files on your system, maybe there is a lookup match lower in the tree; keep in mind that when generating formats, the generator has to move the file someplace, while when using the format the variable kicks in, so there can be a mismatch
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