[XeTeX] kpathsea problem??

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 12.02.2008 um 21:09 schrieb maxwell:

> pdfTeXk

You're using TeX Live, obviously. Your FMT files are mixed up. Could  
be they are in your private ~/.texlive2007 tree – if so, remove them!  
Your system will have its own. And they might work! If they do not  
work, then 'sudo fmtutil-sys --all' should remake them. If they still  
don't work, then it's probably time to re-install MacTeX. This might  
make it necessary to re-install dblatex, too, if installed in the  
system's trees.


Dblatex indeed uses

	\usepackage{pifont}

and also

	\usepackage{textcomp}

I didn't install it with Fink, but I can read the sources in the  
fetched package. And in them \ifpdf is used, so some additions in a  
\ifxetex clause would be fine, particularly for setting up hyperref!  
Another thing is the use of graphicx and color: it makes it necessary  
to start the LaTeX source file with:

	\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper,dvipdfmx]{report}

or

	\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper,xetex]{report}

This part of the documentation sounds like dblatex won't support  
XeLaTeX:

	4.10.1 Document Encoding
	By default the latex document produced by dblatex is encoded in  
latin1, that fits well for roman-characters. This said, a real  
international support involves some kind of Unicode (UTF8) support.
	In dblatex, the Unicode support is done by two methods that can be  
selected by some parameters:
	• latex.unicode.use=1 asks for including the unicode package  
(initially provided by Passivetex) in order to handle many of the  
unicode characters in a latin1 encoded document.
	• latex.encoding=utf8 produces a document encoded in UTF8, that is  
compiled in UTF8. It requires to have the ucs package installed.

--
Greetings

   Pete

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