Bug 131216

Summary: TeX: initex won't run
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Simon Dales <novell>
Component: OtherAssignee: Dr. Werner Fink <werner>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Final   
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Hardware: x86-64   
OS: SuSE Linux 10.0   
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Description Simon Dales 2005-10-28 07:32:43 UTC 
Attempt to run initex to make my own formats. Initex don't find the initial format. It neither reads the magic percent-ampersand nor the explicit commandline "-fmt latex" has no effect.

I tested "-fmt latex" on initex for Suse Linux Professional 7.1, and it don't work either. But it does use the magic comment, if present.

e.g.
%&latex
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\def\Wibble{W W W}
\dump
%%EOF
Comment 1 Michael Gross 2005-10-28 13:29:43 UTC 
Joachim: Can you help here?
Comment 2 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-10-28 14:00:38 UTC 
There is _no_ initex in the new teTeX package.
This is gone and replaced with pdfeinitex.
Please refere /usr/share/texmf/doc/tetex/TETEXDOC.pdf
for news, e.g. `4.6 pdfetex: the new default TeX engine'

For new formats you may using accordingly to the manual
page something like:

pdfetex -ini -jobname=mytex -progname=mytex \
        -translate-file=cp227.tcx '&pdfetex mytex.ins'

for more informations see /etc/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf and
the manual page of fmtutil