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Format from the Utilities menu of the main
4TeX menu (see Figure 4.15). Format files are files with preloaded declarations,
assignments, and macro definitions that can be used within your document.
For a detailed discussion of format files and how they can be generated see
Section 5.2.4
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[N] specify format Name
specifies the name of the format you want to generate. Examples of available format
files are:
After typing [N] you can type the format you want to generate. You can use wildcards to select a certain format. By typing [@] you will select all available formats.
[D] edit format Description
A format file can be assigned a description. If left blank the format name will be
used as the description. When using a big TeX version the description will
automatically start with the word `big'. The descriptions are used for the selection of
the formats in the main menu.
[P] change format input Path
clears the field format input path and another subdirectory can be chosen. If you
enter a directory name with wildcards (or an empty one) 4TeX will display a
list of all directories that satisfy the wildcard specification. By using the
cursor keys you can select the directory you want. Using this approach you
do not have to type the whole directory name (correctly) but only a few
letters are often enough. Press [Esc] to restore the directory name to the old
setting.
[L] select Languages for BABEL
With TeX 3.0 it has become possible to load hyphenation patterns for more than one
language. To take advantage of this new feature some extra book keeping is needed.
Babel is a set of TeX macros that provides a simple way to generate TeX format files
(see below) with multiple languages, and macros to switch languages within one
TeX document. A list of all available languages and hyphenation patterns
is displayed and you can select the languages you want to use in the new
format.
[X] change emTeX options
4TeX automatically sets the options for the TeX compilers. Warning: it is not
recommended to change them, unless you have studied the documentation very
carefully.
[T] Toggle between Big and Huge format
You can either generate big or huge versions of formats. The huge version is used
with HugeTeX and has more main memory, higher memory settings, but may run
slowly.
[A] select codepAge
selects the codepage translation table to be used when generating a new format file.
See documentation of TeX compilers for details about the usage of codepage tables.
Selecting `none' implies true 8 bits input that can be used with the DC fonts or
special input encodings.
[F] generate Format
available formats" you are prompted for every format whether you want to generate
it or not.
[O] show lOgfile
INITeX writes informative messages to a log file. Use this option to view the log
file.
[R] Return to main menu
leaves the conversion menu and return to the main menu. An equivalent key is
[Esc].
Note: In case you use the CD-rom you can add additional format files on a hard
disk. This is in particular handy if you have an update or new version of a
format that is already on the CD-rom. The (new) format files are stored
in the directory specified by the environment variable OWNFMT that can be
found in the file texuser.<os>. When a new format is generated the format
file is stored in %OWNFMT\btexfmts or %OWNFMT\htexfmts. If the variable
OWNFMT is not empty 4TeX will ask from which directory you want to select a
format in the main menu (i.e. from CD-rom or from the directory specified by
OWNFMT).
