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Making Format Files

You can use the MakeTeXFMT utility to make and install a new format file for plain TeX resp. LaTeX.

The general MakeTexFMT syntax is

maketexfmt format

where format is the name of a macro package. For example, to make a new LaTeX format file, you would say

maketexfmt latex

This creates the format file `latex.fmt'. MakeTeXFMT moves it into the MiKTeX Format Directory (usually `c:\texmf\miktex\config\fmt'.

Controlling Which Hyphenation Patterns Are Loaded

You can control the loading of hyphenation patterns by modifying the file `language.dat', which is located in the directory `c:\texmf\tex\generic\hyphen\local'.

As distributed with MiKTeX, `language.dat' has the following contents:

% File    : language.dat
% Purpose : specify which hypenation patterns to load 
%           while running iniTeX 
english ushyphen.tex
%ukenglish ukhyphen.tex
german ghyph31.tex
%italian ithyph.tex
%dutch nehyph2.tex
%finnish fihyph.tex
%norwegian nohyph.tex
%french f8hyph.tex

Lines starting with `%' are comments. The only uncommented lines in the example are `english ushyphen.tex' and `german ghyph31.tex'. That is, only hyphenation patterns for U.S. English and German will be loaded by iniTeX. To load other hyphenation patterns, you have to uncomment the corresponding lines.

After modifying `language.dat', you have to use MakeTeXFMT to build a new format file.


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