[XeTeX] Windows tools in XeTeX - what do they do?
Mojca Miklavec
mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com
Thu Apr 17 18:00:57 CEST 2008
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote:
> On 17 Apr 2008, at 4:43 pm, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > There are some new executables in w32tex's XeTeX.
> >
> > sfconv.exe
> > teckit_compile.exe
> > txtconv.exe
> >
> > What are they used for (I have no windows computer here to try)?
>
> teckit_compile is used to compile the "font-mapping" files such as
> tex-text.tec, so it's needed if people want to create their own font
> mappings. Until now, we haven't been including this in the TeX Live-
> based distributions, so anyone who wants it would have to get TECkit
> separately (http://scripts.sil.org/TECkit), but I've been thinking
> that we should probably include it.
>
> The other two are command-line encoding conversion utilities that use
> TECkit mappings. I don't think there's really much reason to include
> these in a TeX distribution; they just happen to get built by the
> default makefiles along with the TECkit library that XeTeX uses.
Thanks a lot for the explanation. In that case I guess that neither is
needed for our purposes (but teckit_compile might be handy in some
cases).
Mojca
More information about the XeTeX
mailing list