[tex-live] Polyglossia breaks XeLaTeX

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Sat Sep 1 21:37:32 CEST 2012


2012/9/1 Haines Brown <haines at histomat.net>:
> On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 07:44:41PM +0200, Uwe Siart wrote:
>> As the others already mentioned: pdflatex is called instead of xelatex.
>> I believe that either your editor is fooling or you are making a mistake
>> in using it.
>>
>> Haines Brown <haines at histomat.net> writes:
>>
>> > Documents compile with xelatex, but if \usepackage{polyglossia}
>> > appears in the preamble, I get "XeLaTeX: done"
>>
>> This message is not from LaTeX output. It is created by your editor and
>> it makes you believe that you ran XeLaTeX. But ...
>>
>> > The log says:
>> >
>> >   This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-1.40.12 (TeX Live 2011)
>> >     (format=pdflatex 2011.10.30 entering extended mode
>>
>> Clearly: pdflatex is actually called. So no surprise that ...
>
>
> Uwe,
>
> In my editor, I changed the TeX engine to default, and now when I
> compile the tex document my log start with:
>
>   This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-0.9998 (TeX Live 2012)
>          (format=xelatex 2012.8.31) 1 SEP 2012 15:15
>
> Incidentally, I have TL2011, not TL2012. While I updated the packages
> in TL2011, I did not upgrade to TL2012 (or at least as far as I know).
>
> The log file ends with:
>
>   ) (/home/haines/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/metalogo/metalogo.sty))
>
>   ! LaTeX Error: File `(.sty' not found.
>
>   Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
>   or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)
>
>   Enter file name:
>
> I used tlmgr to install the metalogo package, but get same results.
> When I type in metalogo at the prompt, nothing happens.
>
This is a correct behaviour, as the log says, metalogo.sty has already
been read but the question is why LaTeX wants to read (.sty, this is a
strange file name. It might be a result of bad grouping or a conflict
between packages.

> Haines



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