[XeTeX] I can't find the format file `xelatex.fmt'!

[Bruno Voisin]

Le 25 févr. 07 à 14:50, Pascal de Bruijn a écrit :

> Another passage of text in fmtutil --all:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Latin Hyphenation Patterns `lahyph' Version 3.0b <2001/11/21>)
> (/usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/generic/hyphen/huhyphn.tex
> Huhyphn - hungarian hyphenation patterns v20031107
> ! Nonletter.
> l.33 .ad౱
>            s
> ?
> ! Emergency stop.
> l.33 .ad౱
>            s
> No pages of output.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Does this mean Hungarian hyphenation is breaking my XeTeX  
> installation?
> Is there a way to circumvent this issue?

The problem seems to be caused by an incompatibility between XeTeX  
and the Hungarian hyphenation pattern.

This is probably caused in turn by a TeX distribution that is too  
old: you're apparently using teTeX, which is now deprecated and no  
longer developed. Not all the elements necessary for running XeTeX  
with no fuss are included in it.

By contrast, the TeXLive 2007 distribution includes everything  
necessary for XeTeX, and in fact XeTeX is already included in it. In  
particular, the XeTeX-related formats are built by using wrappers, in  
texmf-dist/tex/generic/xu-hyphen/, which make legacy hyphenation  
patterns such as huhyphn.tex compatible with XeTeX.

See for example:

<http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2007-April/thread.html#6333>

Unfortunately I can't be more specific regarding how to install  
TeXLive on Ubuntu, as I'm on the Mac.

Hope this helps though,

Bruno Voisin