[XeTeX] xelatex on Windows with texlive 2013

[Zdenek Wagner]

2014-04-09 11:51 GMT+02:00 Ganesh Vijayakumar <ganesh.iitm at gmail.com>:
> Dear All,
>
>    I've installed all packages related to xelatex through the tex live
> package manager on Windows 8.1. latex, pdflatex work great and there are no
> issues. "xetex story" seems to work fine and produces an output. "xetex
> opentype-info.tex" also works. However, I can't seem to get xelatex to work.
> Typing xelatex on the command line terminal produces no output file or any
> command line output. It just returns an empty terminal. Could you give any
> clues on getting this rectified?
>
What exactly have you done? Remember that TeX progtrams are not very
useful as interactive programs although they can be used that way.  In
xelatex you will see just the ** prompt and you will have to type the
whole document. You should enter the file name on the command line.

The shortest documents is

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Hello world!
\end{document}

Save it as hello.tex and run:
xelatex hello

Or, if you have font Sanskrit2003 installed, save the following
document as aumtatsat.tex:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Script=Devanagari]{Sanskrit2003}
\begin{document}
ॐ तत्सत्।
\end{document}

Now run:
xelatex aumtatsat

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> ganesh
>
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