Hello, FWIW, one can not dump LaTeX on a virgin system (say D. E. Knuth engines and fonts) if the following 4 tfm files are missing: line10.tfm linew10.tfm lcircle10.tfm lcirclew10.tfm For required/graphics, the driver dvips.def is not anymore generated by graphics-drivers.ins: it has to be get from contrib/graphics-def. (Not a problem for me, I know where to find it; but it could be mentioned in the doc.) Neither ltxcheck nor sample2e.tex can be processed if the EC fonts are missing (required?). On a side note (since core babel is required): could you tell the babel developers to correct babel.ins in order to not provoke an unnecessary overwrite check by docstrip, because "babel.log" is also used as the output name of a file created as a side effect. Namely, in: % Dummy, it just read "modules" to be used when generating % the actual file. There must be a better way. \savingtrue \generate{\usepreamble\empty \usepostamble\empty \file{babel.log}{\from{babel.dtx}{dummy}}} \savingfalse replace babel.log by dummy.log, for example (this is what I do by ed'ing or sed'ing the file; but the less custom processing, the better ;) Best, -- Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com> http://www.kergis.com/ http://www.kergis.com/kertex.html http://www.sbfa.fr/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C