[XeTeX] %&-parsing problem?
Jonathan Kew
jonathan_kew at sil.org
Fri Sep 24 17:45:49 CEST 2004
On 24 Sep 2004, at 4:37 pm, Stephen Moye wrote:
> If I have this in a TeX file:
>
> %&xetex
>
...etc...
> I think this was working before, and it continues to work if I use
> %&latex for example.
>
If you're using the new TeXShop functionality, that was
%&program=xetex
which is interpreted by the TeXShop front end, to decide which "engine"
to run.
The traditional form
%&latex
is processed by the *engine*, to decide which format file to load; but
it can't select between the pdfTeX and xetex engines.
Note that the TeXShop %&program= extension has proved controversial,
and I wouldn't be surprised if the convention is changed in a
subsequent version.
JK
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