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From: pk <peterk2@××××××××.se>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] plainTeX instead of LaTeX
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:34:21
Message-Id: 4A47A99A.4070307@coolmail.se
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] plainTeX instead of LaTeX by meino.cramer@gmx.de
1 meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
2
3 > /home/mccramer>virtex texfile.tex
4 > This is TeXk, Version 3.1415926 (Web2C 7.5.7)
5 > %&-line parsing enabled.
6 >
7 > kpathsea: Running mktexfmt plain.fmt
8 > I can't find the format file `plain.fmt'!
9 >
10 >
11 > /home/mccramer>locate plainfmt.tex
12
13 Go to http://www.tug.org/texinfohtml/web2c.html
14 Search for 'plain.fmt'... It seems like this could be solved by making a
15 symbolic link from 'tex.fmt' (as suggested elsewhere). Haven't tried
16 this myself so no guarantees...
17
18 MfG
19
20 Peter K

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