[XeTeX] "Missing" system fonts

[John Was]

Dear William

Thanks very much for that - exactly the sort of tip I need!

Best wishes


John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Adams" <will.adams at frycomm.com>
To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 7:44 PM
Subject: JunkEmail: Re: [XeTeX] "Missing" system fonts


> On May 25, 2007, at 2:32 PM, John Was wrote:
> 
>> I'm still
>> getting used to having to call up a command prompt and type 'XeTeX  
>> FILENAME'
>> every time I want to compile a file, and I hope that I will  
>> eventually find
>> a way to avoid that - it seems like stepping back a decade or so.   I
>> certainly look forward to getting Greek (and occasionally Hebrew or  
>> Arabic)
>> in my input files without having to use an ASCII transliteration  
>> system, so
>> I'll persevere with XeTeX - but I could have done without the  
>> hassle of
>> taming the environment!
> 
> I use Dirk Struve's TeXShell for Windows:
> 
> http://www.projectory.de/texshell/
> 
> Just set up a button for XeTeX (or XeLaTeX). It's especially well- 
> suited for xetex since it now supports UTF-8.
> 
> I use Sumatra as a .pdf viewer:
> 
> http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/
> 
> (or Acrobat Approval v5)
> 
> William
> 
> -- 
> William Adams
> senior graphic designer
> Fry Communications
> 
> 
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