On Oct 14, 2010, at 11:34 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote: > FMT file is in /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-var/web2c/xetex. Because XeTeX > based. > > Best is to edit fmtutil.cnf > (/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-var/web2c/fmtutil.cnf). Then you can use > fmtutil(-sys) to create FMT files.
That was the clue I needed. Thanks! Except I edited that file to make xetex the underlying engine for xmltex and then ran sudo fmtutil-sys --byengine xetex and all went well until it reached xmltex at which time I got: .tex UTF-8 Hyphenation patterns for Ancient Greek (/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-grc .tex ! Nonletter. l.37 α 1 ε1 η1 ι1 ο1 υ1 ω1 ϊ1 ϋ1 ἀ1 ἁ1 ἂ1 ἃ1 ἄ1 ἅ1 ἆ1 ... <LOTS MORE STUFF HERE> (That makes 100 errors; please try again.) William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow. -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex