Re: teTeX3: creating format files w/o initex?

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 10:42:04PM +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
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> [Please cc: me, I'm not subscribed to this list!]
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> Hi,
> 
> I have teTeX 3.0 installed, and aparently it comes without initex.
> How does one create a new format file?
> 
> So far the following command worked for the musixtex format:
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> 	 initex '&tex musixtex.ins \dump'

I'm doing this now with:

(
    cd tex/
    echo '\input plain'                 >  musixtex.ini
    echo '\def\fmtname{musixtex}'       >> musixtex.ini
    echo '\def\fmtversion{\mxversion}'  >> musixtex.ini
    cat musixtex.ins                    >> musixtex.ini
    echo '\endinput'                    >> musixtex.ini

    TFMFONTS=${PWD}/../tfm
    export TFMFONTS

    tex -ini -jobname=musixtex -progname=musixtex -translate-file=cp227.tcx musixtex.ini
)

and it work with the generation of some tfm files but it works ;^)
Maybe it could be done smarter ;^)

        Werner


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