[XeTeX] sporadic shifted underbrace error

[Daniel Greenhoe]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:
> I tried to cross compile XeTeX for Windows from my Linux machine,
> the resulting binary is here:
> http://www.khaledhosny.org/files/tmp/xetex.exe
> I don't know if it works or not, I didn't test it.

I didn't find the courage to test this one  :(

The win32 XeTeX website w32tex.org posted a ChangeLog announcement
dated 2013/02/20 stating:
  "(03) xetex-w32.tar.xz
     Update xetex.exe. A known bug in the unicode-math is fixed."

I downloaded xetex-w32.tar.xz and extracted from it xetex.exe dated
2013-02-19 8:38 PM and xelatex.exe dated 2011-02-17, copied them into
texlive\2012\bin and ran
  fmtutil --byfmt xetex
  fmtutil --byfmt xelatex

The new xetex seemed to compile the underbrace.tex test file (see
attachment) with no error.

However, when I tried to use it to typeset a 500+ page document, it
crashed around page 204, and a window reported "xetex.exe has stopped
working"

Anyone have any suggestions of what I should try?

Dan

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:
> I feel your pain, and I'm really sorry for that.
>
> I don't know when the SyncTeX issue will be fixed (hopefully soon), but
> XeTeX can be built without it which is what I'm doing now. I tried to
> cross compile XeTeX for Windows from my Linux machine, the resulting
> binary is here:
> http://www.khaledhosny.org/files/tmp/xetex.exe
>
> I don't know if it works or not, I didn't test it. You probably need to
> replace both your xetex.exe *and* xelatex.exe with this file and
> generate the formats. Please let me know if it works.
>
> Regards,
> Khaled
>
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 04:36:17PM +0800, Daniel Greenhoe wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:
>> > AFAIK, no, because there is an issue with synctex now that prevents
>> > Akira from building the very latest XeTeX.
>>
>> I appreciate everyone's hard work. And again, sorry for all the
>> whining. I know my problems are my own problems and not other
>> people's.
>>
>> But I am under some pressure here to get a project out the door. Is
>> there any time frame for an underbrace-working win32 xetex? 2013? Six
>> months? One month? One week? Even if you say "no idea", I least I will
>> have something to work with.
>>
>> Thank you!
>> Dan
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:05:16AM +0800, Daniel Greenhoe wrote:
>> >> >> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:
>> >> >> > The issue is now fixed in git repository.
>> >> On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 6:53 AM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:
>> >> > http://sourceforge.net/p/xetex/code/
>> >>
>> >> This link references http://tug.org/texlive/build.html which lists
>> >> Akira Kakuto as the builder for win32. Akira Kakuto apparently
>> >> maintains http://w32tex.org/. As of 2013 February 11, the newest file
>> >> in that repository is xetex-w32.tar.xz updated 2013 February 11
>> >> 11:04am. However, in the change log for 2013 February 11 it says
>> >>   "(04) xetex-w32.tar.xz
>> >>      Update libpoppler (0.22.1).
>> >>      A bug in the unicode-math is not fixed, because the fixed one
>> >>      contains rather large differences and it is under discussion."
>> >>
>> >> Does this mean that the fix by Khaled did not make it into the latest
>> >> win32 binary? Would anyone happen to know when a fixed one might
>> >> possibly be available?
>> >
>> > AFAIK, no, because there is an issue with synctex now that prevents
>> > Akira from building the very latest XeTeX.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Khaled
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