Thank you Taco, this is what I get. I got a *similar* line to what you sent, but not the same. Is it ok? ciro linux% tex This is TeXk, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.3) \write18 enabled. %&-line parsing enabled. **\showhyphens{hyphenation} kpathsea: Running mktexfmt tex.fmt running `tex -ini -jobname=tex -progname=tex tex.ini' ... This is TeXk, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.3) (INITEX) \write18 enabled. %&-line parsing enabled. (/usr/local/texlive2004/texmf-dist/tex/plain/config/tex.ini (/usr/local/texlive2004/texmf-dist/tex/plain/base/plain.tex Preloading the plain format: codes, registers, parameters, fonts, more fonts, macros, math definitions, output routines, hyphenation (/usr/local/texlive2004/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/hyphen.tex)) ) Beginning to dump on file tex.fmt (format=tex 2005.2.26) 2014 strings of total length 28924 4990 memory locations dumped; current usage is 110&4877 926 multiletter control sequences \font\nullfont=nullfont \font\tenrm=cmr10 \font\preloaded=cmr9 \font\preloaded=cmr8 \font\sevenrm=cmr7 \font\preloaded=cmr6 \font\fiverm=cmr5 \font\teni=cmmi10 \font\preloaded=cmmi9 \font\preloaded=cmmi8 \font\seveni=cmmi7 \font\preloaded=cmmi6 \font\fivei=cmmi5 \font\tensy=cmsy10 \font\preloaded=cmsy9 \font\preloaded=cmsy8 \font\sevensy=cmsy7 \font\preloaded=cmsy6 \font\fivesy=cmsy5 \font\tenex=cmex10 \font\preloaded=cmss10 \font\preloaded=cmssq8 \font\preloaded=cmssi10 \font\preloaded=cmssqi8 \font\tenbf=cmbx10 \font\preloaded=cmbx9 \font\preloaded=cmbx8 \font\sevenbf=cmbx7 \font\preloaded=cmbx6 \font\fivebf=cmbx5 \font\tentt=cmtt10 \font\preloaded=cmtt9 \font\preloaded=cmtt8 \font\preloaded=cmsltt10 \font\tensl=cmsl10 \font\preloaded=cmsl9 \font\preloaded=cmsl8 \font\tenit=cmti10 \font\preloaded=cmti9 \font\preloaded=cmti8 \font\preloaded=cmti7 \font\preloaded=cmu10 \font\preloaded=cmmib10 \font\preloaded=cmbsy10 \font\preloaded=cmcsc10 \font\preloaded=cmssbx10 \font\preloaded=cmdunh10 \font\preloaded=cmr7 at 14.51799pt \font\preloaded=cmtt10 at 14.4pt \font\preloaded=cmssbx10 at 14.4pt \font\preloaded=manfnt 14787 words of font info for 50 preloaded fonts 14 hyphenation exceptions Hyphenation trie of length 6075 has 181 ops out of 35111 181 for language 0 No pages of output. Transcript written on tex.log. fmtutil: /usr/local/texlive2004/texmf-var/web2c/tex.fmt installed. Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) detected at line 0 [] \tenrm hy-phen-ation \hbox(6.94444+1.94444)x16383.99998, glue set 9784.12628 [] *