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22 Jun
2004
22 Jun
'04
4:21 a.m.
Hello Hans and Matt, here is my solution: in texexec.ini change set TeXFormatFlag to & into: set TeXFormatFlag to (empty) and run texexec like: texexec --tex=pdfetex file.tex this is because texexec checks if ( $TeXFormatFlag eq "" ) { if ($TeXProgram =~ /(etex|pdfetex)/) { $TeXFormatFlag = "-efmt=" ; # >=2004 -fmt= } elsif ($TeXProgram =~ /(eomega)/) { $TeXFormatFlag = "-eoft=" ; # >=2004 obsolete } elsif ($TeXProgram =~ /(aleph)/) { $TeXFormatFlag = "-fmt=" ; } else { $TeXFormatFlag = "-fmt=" ; } } and $TeXProgram is not set to $TeXExecutable (why the two different vars?) Patrick