Description of problem: pdftex can't process it's own etex initialization file. Running : pdftex -ini -jobname=pdftex -progname=pdftex -translate-file=cp227.tcx "*pdfetex.ini" (which is an internally generated command) errors out (error messages pasted below). The problem seems to arise from /usr/share/texlive/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.def line 60 where \addlanguage{arabic}{zerohyph.tex}{}{}{} has no number supplied in the fourth or fifth arguments. Commenting out this line in /usr/share/texlive/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.def and the other similar lines (for farsi and persian) works around the problem. Error messages ... (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/conversions/conv-utf8-ec.t ex) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-zh-latn- pinyin.tex)) ! Missing number, treated as zero. <to be read again> \chardef <to be read again> \rhm@arabic \addlanguage ...\chardef \csname rhm@#1\endcsname =#5 \uselanguage {#1}\inpu... l.60 \addlanguage{arabic}{zerohyph.tex}{}{}{} ? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): texlive-hyphen-base-0.svn26846-10.fc18.noarch How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.run pdftex -ini -jobname=pdftex -progname=pdftex -translate-file=cp227.tcx "*pdfetex.ini" Actual results: Errors out Expected results: Does not error out.
I have the same problem which is stopping me from building PDF documentation for several R packages I develop on. This is on Fedora 19 however and with Installed Packages Name : texlive-hyphen-base Arch : noarch Epoch : 3 Version : svn30797.0 Release : 0.1.fc19 Size : 62 k Repo : installed From repo : updates Summary : hyphen-base package URL : http://tug.org/texlive/ License : LPPL Description : hyphen-base package The line numbers in the files are however different; here is what i get when I run `pdftex -ini -jobname=pdftex -progname=pdftex -translate-file=cp227.tcx "*pdfetex.ini"`: ! Missing number, treated as zero. <to be read again> \chardef <to be read again> \rhm@arabic \addlanguage ...\chardef \csname rhm@#1\endcsname =#5 \uselanguage {#1}\inpu... l.110 \addlanguage{arabic}{zerohyph.tex}{}{}{} ? (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyphen/zerohyph.tex) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/loadhyph/loadhyph-bg.tex T2A Bulgarian hyphenation patterns (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/conversions/conv-utf8-t2a. tex) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-bg.tex)) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/loadhyph/loadhyph-hy.tex No Armenian hyphenation patterns - only for Unicode engines) ! Missing number, treated as zero. <to be read again> \chardef <to be read again> \rhm@farsi \addlanguage ...\chardef \csname rhm@#1\endcsname =#5 \uselanguage {#1}\inpu... l.113 \addlanguage{farsi}{zerohyph.tex}{}{}{} ? (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyphen/zerohyph.tex) ! Missing number, treated as zero. <to be read again> \chardef <to be read again> \rhm@persian \addlanguage ...\chardef \csname rhm@#1\endcsname =#5 \uselanguage {#1}\inpu... l.114 \addlanguage{persian}{zerohyph.tex}{}{}{} ? (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyphen/zerohyph.tex)
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