[OS X TeX] LaTeX Equation Editor, LaTeXiT and XeTeX
Bruno Voisin
bvoisin at mac.com
Fri Aug 5 15:39:44 CEST 2005
Le 5 août 05 à 15:10, Pierre Chatelier a écrit :
> I personnaly do not use xetex, so I did not test it with LaTeXiT.
> But it seems absolutely possible for me to add its support. I just
> have to now which is the good command line to run.
> What would be the equivalent of
>
>> pdflatex -file-line-error -interaction nonstopmode
Apparently, simply this:
xelatex -file-line-error -interaction nonstopmode
Once XeTeX is installed, here's what help yields:
legimc11:~ brunovoisin$ xetex --help
Usage: xetex [OPTION]... [TEXNAME[.tex]] [COMMANDS]
or: xetex [OPTION]... \FIRST-LINE
or: xetex [OPTION]... &FMT ARGS
Run XeTeX on TEXNAME, usually creating TEXNAME.pdf.
Any remaining COMMANDS are processed as XeTeX input, after TEXNAME
is read.
If the first line of TEXNAME is %&FMT, and FMT is an existing .fmt
file,
use it. Else use `NAME.fmt', where NAME is the program invocation
name,
most commonly `xetex'.
Alternatively, if the first non-option argument begins with a
backslash,
interpret all non-option arguments as a line of XeTeX input.
Alternatively, if the first non-option argument begins with a &, the
next word is taken as the FMT to read, overriding all else. Any
remaining arguments are processed as above.
If no arguments or options are specified, prompt for input.
[-no]-file-line-error disable/enable file:line:error style messages
-fmt=FMTNAME use FMTNAME instead of program name or a %& line
-halt-on-error stop processing at the first error
-ini be xeinitex, for dumping formats; this is
implicitly
true if the program name is `xeinitex'
-interaction=STRING set interaction mode (STRING=batchmode/
nonstopmode/
scrollmode/errorstopmode)
-jobname=STRING set the job name to STRING
-kpathsea-debug=NUMBER set path searching debugging flags according to
the bits of NUMBER
[-no]-mktex=FMT disable/enable mktexFMT generation (FMT=tex/tfm)
-mltex enable MLTeX extensions such as \charsubdef
-output-comment=STRING use STRING for XDV file comment instead of date
-output-directory=DIR use DIR as the directory to write files to
-no-pdf generate XDV (extended DVI) output rather
than PDF
[-no]-parse-first-line disable/enable parsing of the first line of the
input file
-papersize=STRING set PDF media size to STRING
-progname=STRING set program (and fmt) name to STRING
-recorder enable filename recorder
[-no]-shell-escape disable/enable \write18{SHELL COMMAND}
-src-specials insert source specials into the XDV file
-src-specials=WHERE insert source specials in certain places of
the XDV file. WHERE is a comma-separated
value
list: cr display hbox math par parend vbox
-translate-file=TCXNAME (ignored)
-8bit (ignored)
-help display this help and exit
-version output version information and exit
Actually XeTeX calls automatically (unless run with the option -no-
pdf), at the end of a run, an additional program xdv2pdf for which:
legimc11:~ brunovoisin$ xdv2pdf -h
usage: xdv2pdf [-m mag] [-p papersize[:landscape]] [-v] [-o pdfFile]
xdvFile
papersize values: a0/a1/a2/a3/a4/a5/a6/a7/a8/a9/a10/b0/b1/b2/b3/
b4/b5/b6/b7/b8/b9/b10/c0/c1/c2/c3/c4/c5/c6/c7/c8/c9/c10/jb0/jb1/jb2/
jb3/jb4/jb5/jb6/jb7/jb8/jb9/jb10/letter/legal/tabloid/ledger/wd,ht
[in 'big' points or with explicit units]
You can try the dedicated XeTeX mailing list <http://tug.org/mailman/
listinfo/xetex>.
> However, I do not really understand the error :
>
>> ! LaTeX Error: File `osxfonts.sty' not found.
>>
> Is this related to the default preamble ? Perhaps xetex does not
> support the same packages as the ones I use by default. Maybe it
> would just work by changing the preamble ?
I suspect osxfonts.sty was the original name of the package known
presently as fontspec.sty <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/
xetex/latex/fontspec/>, but I'm not sure.
It's possible an elaborate preamble would need to be written, as Xe
(La)TeX allows to replace text fonts by OS X fonts seamlessly, but
there are some issues with math fonts (which LaTeXiT is probably more
prone to using), especially with regards to accents. Will Robertson,
the developer of the fontspec package (see below), has devoted a lot
of attention to this.
> One more thing : xetex seems not to be available neither in i-
> installer, nor on fink. How could I test it myself ?
XeTeX is either available as a .pkg package for Apple's Installer
<http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?
site_id=nrsi&item_id=xetex_download>, or as an i-Package for i-
Installer in the i-Directory "Jonathan Kew's i-Directory @ SIL"
<http://scripts.sil.org/pub/packages/iid/kew.iid>. See also <http://
scripts.sil.org/xetex/>.
Hope this helps,
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