[XeTeX] "Missing" system fonts

[John Was]

Thanks - I will certainly choose somewhere saner for my working directory 
when I work out how to do that (I haven't got beyond going to the xetex.exe 
directory and typing 'xetex filename' at the command prompt.  As I said, I 
haven't had to give any thought to this sort of thing in many years.  My 
EmTeX installation knows (because I told it at the time of installation when 
it asked me, about 8 years ago) that everything to do with TeX is in 
D:\texfiles\ and it searches that path and its subdirectories automatically. 
The .DVI files are always produced in the same directory as the .TEX file 
that I am compiling, which is not what XeTeX is currently doing.  But as I 
say, I'll work this all out when I get a couple of days free - what I wrote 
this morning was purely to allow people to see (or remember) that smoother 
installation procedures have been devised for older versions of TeX, which 
would allow new users to get going quickly and thus enjoy XeTeX itself 
without having to bother about peripheral matters.

John


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> --- John Was <john.was at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>> Even now I haven't
>> worked out how to get it to access my TeX files
>> automatically - I'm having
>> to update ls-R every time I write a new file.
>
> If you have to keep your file under TEXMF trees rather
> than in the current directory.
>
>>  And
>> all the PDFs that XeTeX
>> produces go in the same directory as the XeTeX
>> program itself, when I would
>> rather they went in the same directory as the TeX
>> file that I am compiling.
>
> Choose somewhere safer (saner) for your working directory!
>
>> John
>
> Regards,
> SMiyata
>
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