[XeTeX] xelatex.fmt missing

[Martin Steer]

Jonathan Kew <jonathan_kew at sil.org> writes:

> No, the formats are obviously enabled already; the error is happening  
> during creation of the xelatex format, which wouldn't ever be  
> attempted if it weren't enabled in fmtutil.cnf.
>
> The errors shown:
>
>> (/opt/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/xu-hyphen/xu-glhyph.tex
>> (/opt/texlive/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/glhyph.tex
>> ! Undefined control sequence.
>> l.19 \catcode`\ﻱ1 \lccode`\＠\
>>                                      catcode`\绱1 \lccode`\缠\牜 
>> catcode`
>> \�...
>>
>> ?
>> ! Emergency stop.
>
>
> look very much like there's a text encoding problem with the Galician  
> hyphenation file. My guess is that the Arch Linux package has been  
> updated with a newer glhyph.tex than originally shipped with TL2007,  
> but the "wrapper" file xu-glhyph.tex that loads it as Unicode for  
> xelatex has not been updated to match. That would be a packaging  
> error by the maintainers of that distribution, I guess.
>
> Arno, to confirm whether this is the real problem, please show us the  
> output of the two commands:
>
>      head /opt/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/xu-hyphen/xu-glhyph.tex
>      head /opt/texlive/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/glhyph.tex
>
> This will show the first few lines of each of these files, so we can  
> see from the dates and versions whether they are the correct ones.
>
> A workaround would be to disable the Galician language by commenting  
> out the entry in language.dat, or via the "hyphenation" option in  
> texconfig (or another configuration tool, if the Arch package is  
> different from plain TeXLive). However, it would be good to check  
> what's actually wrong, and report it to the package maintainers.

I recently began using the Arch linux package. Commenting out the
Galician entry in language.dat fixes the problem.

% xu-glhyph.tex
% Wrapper for XeTeX to read glhyph.tex
% Jonathan Kew, 2006-09-13

% This is the file glhyph.tex, version 2.2
% Hyphenation patterns for Galician.
%
% Generated with the mkpattern utility (v. 1.01), on 2007/01/29.
% The original source file were glpatter.tex
% This is a generated file
%
% (c) Javier A. M\'ugica, 2006-2007
% License: LPPL version 1.3

--
Martin