[XeTeX] Using Xetex on GNU/linux.

Chris Jones cjns1989 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 7 14:10:00 CET 2010


On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 11:36:22PM EST, Andrew Moschou wrote:
> What if you use the 'xelatex' command instead of 'xetex'?

Thanks, that was it. 

Now it works for for 7bit-ascii.

I looked for existing samples and tried a French document that compiled
OK with latex, after I removed a \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} statement.
But I noticed that every character beyond U+007F had silently vanished
from the resulting sample.pdf: 'idée' had become 'ide', and so on. 

I then tried an Spanish sample, and likewise, 'computación' lost the
accented 'o' and became 'computacin', etc.

I have yet to take a look at more exotic scripts, but it looks like I
will have to make some changes to the markup of existing documents.

I don't suppose there is a tool that would convert those documents semi
automatically and make them compatible with xetex?

Thanks,

CJ





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