Howdy, Sorry for the top post.
Have you installed MacTeX? It installs a full TeX Live distribution when includes xe(la)tex. Good Luck, Herb Schulz > On Nov 13, 2016, at 12:33 PM, Christian Boitet <christian.boi...@imag.fr> > wrote: > > Dear TeX fans, 13/11/16 > > it is the first time I post anything on this list: I have used LaTeX for > lectures, slides, conference papers, etc. for many years, I have a complete > reference book, and always found answers in it or on the Web. > This time, I am quite stuck! One Japanese colleague has used XeTeX on her Mac > and passed me her files to do some debugging concerning the bibliography. > > I am using TeXShop (latest version), I reinstalled MacLive, and then > MacTeX-2016, which are supposed to come with XeTeX. No way. > The message is always the same. Trying to complie from TeXShop: > > kpathsea: Running mktexfmt xelatex.fmt > warning: Configuration file texmf.cnf not found! Searched these directories: > /opt/local/bin:/opt/local:/opt:/opt/local/bin/share/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/share/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/share/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/bin/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/bin/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/bin/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/texmf/web2c:/opt/texmf/web2c:/.:/opt/local/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/share/texmf/web2c > Trying to proceed... > /opt/local/bin/mktexfmt: line 336: /texconfig/tcfmgr: No such file or > directory > fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found. > I can't find the format file `xelatex.fmt'! > > > Or, trying xelatex directly: > > ...Mutsuko-Cogalex-20161112-rvCB: xelatex CogCog-Alex-20161112-rvCB.tex > warning: Configuration file texmf.cnf not found! Searched these directories: > /opt/local/bin:/opt/local:/opt:/opt/local/bin/share/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/share/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/share/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/bin/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/bin/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/bin/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/texmf/web2c:/opt/texmf/web2c:/.:/opt/local/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/share/texmf/web2c > Trying to proceed... > This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996-patch1 (Web2C 7.5.6) > kpathsea: Running mktexfmt xelatex.fmt > warning: Configuration file texmf.cnf not found! Searched these directories: > /opt/local/bin:/opt/local:/opt:/opt/local/bin/share/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/share/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/share/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/bin/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/texmf-local/web2c:/opt/local/bin/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/bin/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/texmf/web2c:/opt/texmf/web2c:/.:/opt/local/share/texmf/web2c:/opt/local/share/texmf/web2c > Trying to proceed... > /opt/local/bin/mktexfmt: line 336: /texconfig/tcfmgr: No such file or > directory > fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found. > I can't find the format file `xelatex.fmt'! > > > I then tried to reinstall separately XeTeX (version 0.9993). > The build (using build.sh) was quite successful, and created after a quite > long process a directory named "build-x86_64" and apparently correctly built. > But I DON'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO FINISH THE INSTALL, which should place the > files where expected. > The INSTALL file (inside build-x86_64) says somewhat cryptically: > > INSTALL for XeTeX Snapshots > > This distribution is essentially a stripped-down version of > the TeXlive distribution with some additional libraries. > > All source code is in the directory source; the build.sh > scripts will generate and populate a directory build. > > The actual code of XeTeX is in source/texk/web2c/xetexdir > and its subdirectories. > > * build.sh builds a native xetex on your system > * build.sh --ppc crosscompiles for osx-ppx from osx-intel > * build.sh --mingw crosscompiles xetex for mingw32 on i686-linux > > XeTeX does not need a run-time pool file, and it locates > texmf.cnf based on its relative position in the TeX tree. > > Post-compilation installation should be a simple matter > of copying the executable to a normal place for web2c > binaries and generating the desired formats. > > What is "the executable"? The complete directory (transformed in an .app file > -- a "package")? Some of the executables in the texk>kpathsea directory? > And what is "a normal place for web2c" ??? > > I tried hard but did not find any tutorial or online discussion on that > matter. Please help! > > Thanks in advance, > Xan > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
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