[XeTeX] problems helping a new Mac user

Axel E. Retif axel.retif at mac.com
Wed Nov 21 09:55:36 CET 2007


On  21 Nov, 2007, at 02:42, Will Robertson wrote:

> On Nov 21, 2007 7:06 PM, François Charette <firmicus at ankabut.net>  
> wrote:
>> Yes, my colleague assured me that arabxetex.sty is under
>> ~/Library/texmf/tex/xelatex/ ...
>> And this path is amongst those shown by the output of
>> kpsewhich --progname=xelatex --show-path=.tex
>>
>> But "kpsewhich arabxetex.sty" yields nothing.
>
> Hmmm, I'm not sure if kpsewhich is set up by default to return XeLaTeX
> package

It does ---I just put arabxetex.sty in my $HOME tree and I get

axretif$ kpsewhich arabxetex.sty
/Users/axretif/Library/texmf/tex/xelatex/arabxetex.sty


Best,

Axel

> but no matter. (I assume the "can't be found" error is
> coming from an actual XeTeX compilation run, not just the output of
> kpsewhich.) I'm afraid it's impossible for me (at a distance, at
> least) to guess what the problem might be. Hopefully someone else has
> a good idea... :)
>
> Will
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