I've been using Xelatex on Ubuntu for a while now. Just download the texlive CD, and follow the installation instructions.<br><br>It installs many more drivers than just latex and pdflatex, including xetex and xelatex.<br>
<br clear="all">Thanks, Love, Peace,<br>Link<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Chris Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cjns1989@gmail.com">cjns1989@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 12:04:55PM EST, Martin Schröder wrote:<br>
> 2010/1/7 Chris Jones <<a href="mailto:cjns1989@gmail.com">cjns1989@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
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> > Is there a quick start document anywhere that might help me get this<br>
> > to work in a GNU/linux context, or am I altogether barking the wrong<br>
> > tree?<br>
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> Sorry, but<br>
> <a href="http://lmgtfy.com/?q=xetex+latex" target="_blank">http://lmgtfy.com/?q=xetex+latex</a><br>
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</div>Don't feel 'sorry', if you refer to the 'Subject:' above, it's actually:<br>
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<a href="http://lmgtfy.com/?q=linux+xetex" target="_blank">http://lmgtfy.com/?q=linux+xetex</a><br>
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;-)<br>
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The fact that it yields 0 hits of any relevance is what prompted me to<br>
post.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XeTeX" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XeTeX</a><br>
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</div>Which informs me that "During BachoTeX 2006 a version for Linux was<br>
announced.."<br>
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Quick, I must say.. not so sure about 'start'.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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CJ<br>
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