Re: Unknown format name/engine: latex/TeX, or latex.fmt not found

On Sunday, February 3, 2013 6:46 AM, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> 
> Am Sat, 2 Feb 2013 21:48:34 -0800 (PST) schrieb John Brown:
> 
>>  On Saturday, February 2, 2013 12:10 PM, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
>>>  Like you I got errors: miktex forgets to extract and install the two
>>>  files jadetex.ltx and dsssl.def (which can be created by running the
>>>  ins-file in the .cab).
>> 
>>  Apparently `make' in the jadetex source tree does this.
> 
> ...It is an
> error of the miktex package if additional manual steps, like
> extracting files, running make or moving files to other locations
> are needed.

I agree that it is an error in MiKTeX, but does this mean that I
should have sat on my hands and waited for MiKTeX to fix itself?

> 
> 
>>  I don't know what you mean. *I* did not run a single command myself.
>>  When I tried to build the various missing *.fmt files, I simply
>>  selected the corresponding formats in the Settings GUI and then clicked
>>  "Build". 
> 
> Sure. And this build latex.fmt with pdftex. 
> 
> But later on your "make install" tried to use tex:
> 
> tex -ini -progname=jadetex "&latex" jadetex.ini
> 


Now I understand. Actually, the makefile executed two commands:

tex -ini -progname=jadetex "&latex" jadetex.ini
pdftex -ini -progname=pdfjadetex "&pdflatex" pdfjadetex.ini

and also tried to copy the .fmt files to $TEXMFMAIN/web2c and the 
.ltx and .def files to TEXMFMAIN/tex/jadetex.


Regards,
John Brown.


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