[tex-live] Adding a previously unknown language to TeX Live

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Philip,

(I finally found the explanation:
  Rhuol, a. roaring, loquacious
from the Welsh dictionary)

>    I have copied my S:\TeX\Live\TeXMF\Local\* to his

If thi sis what is used as TEXMFLOCAL, then that would be a good idea.

>    "tlmgr generate --rebuild-sys language" on his system (as I did on mine), 

That should do what it says, if it finds language-local.dat/def/dat.lua.
Are these files available in your TEXMFLOCAL/tex/generic/config/ ?

>    "Update filename database" and (b) "Rebuild all formats" (to the best

Could simply use
  mktexlsr
  fmtutil-sys --all

That should do the trick.

>     1. Is there a document that describes the necessary and sufficient
>        steps to add a previously unknown language to TeX Live ?

Yes, tlmgr help, or man tlmgr, or any of the web pages that gives the
same, under "generate".

>     2. Is anyone able to see from the above why Hebrew is now known to my
>        system but not to his ?

No, because we cannot see the output of tlmgr generate and which files
are at the end actually loaded.

There might be language.dat/def/dat.lua files hanging around in some bad
places hiding the ones generated.

Best

Norbert

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