[XeTeX] Feedback on W32 Port of XeTeX v0.994

[Jonathan Kew]

On 13 Jun 2006, at 11:29 am, Peter Dyballa wrote:

>
> Am 13.06.2006 um 11:21 schrieb Toralf Senger:
>
>> Colors and PDF-picture inclusion do not work. As soon as I include
>> \usepackage[xetex]{color} I get thousands of errors álá 'Warning***
>> -->x:textcolor=000000<--- unparsed macros afters specials
>> ignored' (Or something like this)-even in a document where the only
>> text is 'test' I get about 10 error (identical) messages.
>
> Recently new versions, in XeTeX 0.994a, of some CFG files were  
> released:
>
>    384 2006-06-07 14:11:00 ./share/texmf.local/tex/xelatex/crop.cfg
>    335 2006-06-07 14:11:00 ./share/texmf.local/tex/xelatex/ 
> geometry.cfg
>    332 2006-06-07 14:11:00 ./share/texmf.local/tex/xelatex/ 
> hyperref.cfg
>
>
> I do not load color as you do, a simple \usepackage{color} works fine
> for me. A correctly configured TeX installation should enable XeLaTeX
> to search for and find /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/xelatex/
> graphics/xetex.def (in teTeX 3).

Just to confirm/emphasize the point Peter mentioned later: xetex.def  
is currently Mac-specific, so Linux and Windows users will need to  
explicitly give the [dvipdfm] driver option.

Expect changes in all this eventually, to make things more  
automatic.....

JK