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Hello Peter, thank you very much for your kind help.<BR>
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> \usepackage[xetex]{hyperref} % or
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> \usepackage[dvipdfm]{hyperref}
None of these specialised forms is needed nowadays, hyperref
determines automatically which TeX variant in which mode is running.
>
> I'm using babelbib
I haven't used it yet...
> Here's my preamble :
>
> \documentclass[12pt,letterpaper,draft]{article}
If you pass the letterpaper option to geometry, then you can save the
\special line.
>
>
> % Packages
> \usepackage[canadien,english]{babel}
> \usepackage[top=2.75cm, bottom=3cm, left=2.5cm, right=2.5cm]{geometry}
> \usepackage{fancyhdr}
> \usepackage{ifpdf}
Ifxetex is a nice package, too!
> \usepackage[fixlanguage]{babelbib}
> \usepackage[dvipdfm]{hyperref}
>
> % Layout et options
> \special{papersize=8.5in,11in}
> \setlength{\headheight}{15pt}
Isn't this line better put to the geometry options? Or is it specific
for fancyhdr?
> \renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.5}
> \hypersetup{urlcolor=cyan}
>
> % XeTeX specific
> \usepackage{xunicode}
If xunicode, or xltxtra, find that fontspec wasn't loaded before, it
gets load.
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \usepackage{xltxtra}
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I have followed and implemented your recommendations; the result is a cleaner preamble :
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<TT><FONT SIZE="2">\documentclass[12pt,draft]{article}</FONT></TT><BR>
<BR>
<TT><FONT SIZE="2">% Packages</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT SIZE="2">\usepackage[canadien,english]{babel}</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT SIZE="2">\usepackage[letterpaper,margin=2.5cm,headheight=15pt]{geometry}</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT SIZE="2">\usepackage{fancyhdr}</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT SIZE="2">\usepackage[fixlanguage]{babelbib}</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT SIZE="2">\usepackage{hyperref}</FONT></TT><BR>
<BR>
<TT><FONT SIZE="2">% Layout and options</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT SIZE="2">\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.5}</FONT></TT><BR>
<BR>
<TT><FONT SIZE="2">% XeTeX specific</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT SIZE="2">\usepackage{xunicode}</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT SIZE="2">\usepackage{xltxtra}</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT SIZE="2">\setromanfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Linux Libertine O}</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT SIZE="2">\setsansfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Linux Biolinum O}</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT SIZE="2">\setmonofont[Mapping=tex-text,Scale=0.9]{Courier New}</FONT></TT><BR>
<BR>
Also, I didn't know about ifxetex. I'll sure make something useful with it as I refine my approach and learn more. (this is my first touch with TeX/LaTeX/XeTeX)<BR>
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And you can swear every oath that the following minimal code fails on your PC?
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{ifpdf,ifxetex}
\usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage[letterpaper]{geometry}
\ifxetex
\immediate\write16{==High ¡I'm from XeTeX!==}
\usepackage[no-math]{fontspec}
% \usepackage{xltxtra,xunicode}
\usepackage[raiselinks=true]{hyperref}
\defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
% \setromanfont{Lucida Bright} % The Lucida fonts are in Java...
% \setsansfont{Lucida Sans}
% \setmonofont{Lucida Sans Typewriter}
% \newfontface\slanted[RawFeature={slant=0.194},Colour=884444]
{Lucida Bright}
% \DeclareRobustCommand{\textsl}[1]{{\slanted #1}}
\else
\immediate\write16{==Notice: No XeTeX==}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\ifpdf
\immediate\write16{==\jobname: Bonjour, PDF!==}
\usepackage{cmap}
\usepackage[activate={true,nocompatibility}]{microtype}
\usepackage[bookmarks=true,backref=section,debug=true]{hyperref}
\makeatletter
\@ifundefined{pdffilemoddate}{%
\PackageError{sourcetime}{%
pdfTeX >= 1.30.0 required%
}%
\let\pdffilemoddate\@gobble
}{}%
\newcommand*{\SourceFile}[1]{%
\edef\@SourceFileDate{\pdffilemoddate{#1}}%
% empty in case of errors, but don't harm in next comparison
\ifnum\pdfstrcmp{\@SourceFileDate}{\@CurrentSourceFileDate}>0 %
\let\@CurrentSourceFileDate\@SourceFileDate
\expandafter\@ParseDate\@SourceFileDate\@nil
\hypersetup{%
pdfcreationdate={\@SourceFileDate},%
pdfmoddate={\@SourceFileDate}%
}%
\PackageInfo{sourcetime}{%
Using file `#1'%
}%
\fi
}
\newcommand*{\@CurrentSourceFileDate}{}
\expandafter\def\expandafter\@ParseDate\detokenize{D:}
#1#2#3#4#5#6#7#8{%
\year=#1#2#3#4\relax
\month=#5#6\relax
\day=#7#8\relax
\@ParseTime
}
\def\@ParseTime #1#2#3#4#5\@nil{%
\time=\numexpr #1#2 * 60 + #3#4\relax
}
\makeatother
\SourceFile{\jobname.tex}
\else
\immediate\write16{==Bad luck – \jobname: DVI==}
\usepackage[protrusion=true,expansion=false]{microtype}
\fi
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[full]{textcomp}
% \usepackage{lucida}
\renewcommand{\sfdefault}{pag}
\renewcommand{\rmdefault}{ppl}
\renewcommand{\ttdefault}{pcr}
\makeatletter
\newcommand*\TeX@logo@spacing[6]{%
\def\xxt@kern@Te{#1}%
\def\xxt@kern@eX{#2}%
\def\xxt@lower@e{#3}%
\def\xxt@kern@La{#4}%
\def\xxt@kern@aT{#5}%
\def\xxt@kern@eL{#6}%
}
\DeclareRobustCommand\XeTeX{%
\leavevmode
\smash{%
X\lower\xxt@lower@e
\hbox{\kern\xxt@kern@eX
\setbox0=\hbox{E}\dimen0=\ht0\advance\dimen0by\dp0%
\reflectbox{E}%
}\kern\xxt@kern@Te\TeX}}%
\DeclareRobustCommand\XeLaTeX{%
\leavevmode
\smash{%
X\lower\xxt@lower@e
\hbox{\kern\xxt@kern@eX
\setbox0=\hbox{E}\dimen0=\ht0\advance\dimen0by\dp0\relax
\reflectbox{E}%
}\kern\xxt@kern@eL\LaTeX}}
\TeX@logo@spacing{-0.15em}{-0.125em}{0.5ex}{-0.36em}{-0.12em}
{-0.13em}
\makeatother
\fi
\def\TheTitle{The Common Planet}
\hypersetup{%
unicode,
pdftitle=\TheTitle,
pdfauthor=directly from the author,
pdfsubject=The Refferrentz,
pdfkeywords={A one too three!},
urlcolor=DarkBlue,
linkcolor=NavyBlue,
verbose,
colorlinks
}
\begin{document}
\title{\textcolor{DarkGoldenrod}{\TheTitle}}
\author{Clark Kent\\
\href{<A HREF="mailto:Clark_Kent@FlatEarth.NET">mailto:Clark_Kent@FlatEarth.NET</A>}{\small\itshape Clark
\textunderscore <A HREF="mailto:Kent@FlatEarth.NET">Kent@FlatEarth.NET</A>}}
\date{\today}
\maketitle
\tableofcontents
\newpage
\section{First Page}
The text body of the first page.
\newpage
\section{On Second Page}
The text continues on the second page.
\newpage
\section{The Third Page}
The text \textsl{further} continues on the third page.
\end{document}
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It does work (even with the links!!), after making slight corrections to please the compiler (removing the [no-math] option from package and the lone line {Lucida Bright}).<BR>
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After 2 hours trying to find what was not right with my code... It turns out that the hyperref cannot generate links when my document is in <B>draft</B> mode. Changing \documentclass[12pt,draft]{article} to \documentclass[12pt]{article} allowed XeTeX to generate the hyperlinks.<BR>
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I'll remember it for a long time. May the draft mode be damn. Wouldn't this be a bug? I haven't entirely RTFM, but it seems a bit weird to me.<BR>
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Thank you again and good night all,<BR>
<BR>
Maxim
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