Re: Problem with plain tex and babel

On May 22, 2005, at 5:43 PM, Thomas Esser wrote:

> On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 02:51:47PM +0200, Artemio Gonzalez Lopez  
> wrote:
>
>> my case, texconfig and texconfig-sys show that the hyphenation files
>> used by etex and latex are the ones in my home texmf tree, which I  
>> have
>> appropriately customized. kpsewhich agrees with this:
>>
>> [tillina:~] artemio% kpsewhich language.def
>> /Users/artemio/Library/texmf/tex/plain/config/language.def
>> [tillina:~] artemio% kpsewhich language.dat
>> /Users/artemio/Library/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat
>>
>
> Better try
>   kpsewhich -progname=etex language.def
>   kpsewhich -progname=latex language.dat
>
> If his shows different files than those ready by latex / etex, you  
> have
> to run latex / etex with KPATHSEA_DEBUG set (e.g. to -1). Let me know
> if you need more help.

Thomas,

Thanks a lot for your help! Actually, my report about texconfig not  
using the hyphenation files kpsewhich was pointing to was WRONG, so  
please forget my previous post. I have, however, a further question  
related to rebuilding formats. In order to make texconfig  
automatically rebuild etex and latex with the correct format files  
(not the default ones), I had to trick it into believing that the  
hyphenation files had changed by making inessential changes to them  
(for instance, removing blank lines or spaces). Is there a better way  
of doing this, or should I just do it by hand using fmtutil?

Thanks again for your help,


Artemio Gonzalez-Lopez
[email protected]