Dear Akira, On Sa, 30 Apr 2016, Akira Kakuto wrote:
Apparently the catcodes of { and } are not defined in pdftexconfig.tex. They are defined in etex.src in the case of plain pdftex.
Thanks, ok I will use the following ini file for a new format pdflatex-reproducible any comments? % Norbert Preining 2016. Public domain. \input pdftexconfig.tex \pdfinfoomitdate = 1 \pdfsuppressptexinfo = 1 % catcodes are not set by now, we need to fix that \catcode `\{=1 \catcode `\}=2 \pdftrailerid{} \pdfinfo{/Producer (pdfTeX)} \scrollmode % we need to unset the catcodes again, otherwise the latex format complains \catcode `\{=0 \catcode `\}=0 \input latex.ltx \endinput All the best Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREINING, Norbert http://www.preining.info JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian Developer GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13 ------------------------------------------------------------------------