[XeTeX] Experiences with XeTeX on Debian Sarge and Ubuntu Edgy Eft

[Christoph Bier]

Peter Dyballa schrieb am 25.10.2006 13:42:

> Am 25.10.2006 um 12:12 schrieb Bruno Voisin:
> 
>> theo8mc233:~/Desktop/xetex bvoisin$ ls -l
>> total 416
>> -rw-r--r--   1 bvoisin  bvoisin  206289 Aug 13 18:42 XeTeX- 
>> reference.pdf
>> -rw-r--r--   1 bvoisin  bvoisin      24 Aug 13 18:42 xetexref.pdf
>>
>> Looking at xetexref.pdf, its only content is the text:
>>
>> link XeTeX-reference.pdf
> 
> This looks strange ... The name "XeTeX-reference.pdf" has 19 bytes  
> (proof: echo -n "XeTeX-reference.pdf" | wc -c), and it shouldn't be a  
> file, but:
> 
> -rw-r--r--   1 pete  pete  206289 25 Sep 11:54 XeTeX-reference.pdf
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 pete  pete      19 25 Sep 11:54 xetexref.pdf -> XeTeX- 
> reference.pdf
> 
> which is quite the same situation as in /usr/local/teTeX/share/ 
> texmf.local/doc/xetex:
> 
> -rw-r--r--   1 pete  admin  206289 13 Aug 18:42 XeTeX-reference.pdf
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 pete  admin      19 25 Okt 00:51 xetexref.pdf -> XeTeX- 
> reference.pdf
> 
> (I wonder why they're not owned by "admin," my software installer  
> account)
> 
> Last night I missed a train due to rain so I updated XeTeX via svn  
> (and also my i-Packages). So my guess is that the tape archives (tar  
> files) with the XeTeX sources are not correct. Which would explain  
> why xpdf and Adobe Reader fail on this Mac OS X file alias? What do  
> you have in /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/doc/xetex or where  
> ever the XeTeX documentation is stored (XeTeX-notes, fontspec,  
> fontspec-example, XeTeX-samples directory)?

chris at lotus:/usr/local/share/texmf/doc/xetex$ ls -l
insgesamt 212
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 206289 2006-08-22 21:41 XeTeX-reference.pdf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     24 2006-08-22 21:41 xetexref.pdf

Regards,
    Christoph
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