[OS X TeX] latest update of gwtex i-package

[Philipp Mathey]

Ok, I was mistaken to assume that the fontspec folder at CTAN(v.1.12)
contains the fontspec.sty and fontspec.cfg files. Fortunately I found  
those
files in my old teTeX tree. Otherwise I don't know where I would have
found them. With them, everything works.

Also, I think the 'sudo texhash' was unnecessary' for TeX to see
the files in ~/Library/texmf/

I still would like to know how I could create an 'archived'
version of gwTEX. I understand, every time i-packages are updated,
the old version gets erased (?).  It would be nice to somehow keep
the old version somewhere, at least for a while, so that if an update  
breaks something one
can easily switch back. A bit like how one can switch between TeX  
distributions
via the System Preferences panel. However, there the switch concerns
different TeX distros. Why not the same thing for different versions,
i.e. versions with different time stamps, of the same TeX distro ?
Then the TeX distribution panel would show something like
gwTeX - 01/10/07
gwTeX-12/21/06
...
TeXLive-....
TeXLive-....

with the dates indicating the version

Wouldn't that make life easier ?

Thanks,
PM
On 5-Jan-07, at 1:28 PM, Philipp Mathey wrote:

> Hi Jonathan, thanks for your reply.
> It seems that indeed the fontspec package caused the problem.
> I did manage to get it to work as I want it to using the xdvipdfmx  
> driver,
> as you suggested, but for other purposes it complains
> that it cannot dump a format with preloaded native fonts. I didn't  
> get that error message
> with the previous version and was I able to compile formats which  
> included
> font-specifications such as
> \setromanfont[Mapping=tex-text,Scale=0.9]{Courier New}
>
> I downloaded the fontspec package from CTAN, this is version v.1.12
> which is what I had, I think. Am I correct to assume that the  
> current fontspec
> version in the latest gwTeX is v. 1.13 ?
> I placed the fontspec folder in ~/Library/texmf/tex/xelatex/
> and I also did a sudo texhash but it seems that xelatex still uses
> the fontspec package from the gwtex tree, not the one in my home  
> directory.
> How can I tell TeX to use the v.1.12 fontspec package in my home  
> directory ?
>
> Thanks,
> PM
>
> On 5-Jan-07, at 11:13 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote:
>
>> On 5 Jan 2007, at 2:05 am, Philipp Mathey wrote:
>>
>>> For example, I get error messages like :
>>>
>>> ## xdv2pdf: use of uninstalled fonts (specified by filename) such as
>>> ##   [/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/fonts/opentype/public/lm/ 
>>> lmroman12-regular.otf]
>>> ## is not supported; try using the xdvipdfmx driver instead.
>>
>> This means your document is calling for fonts by filename, using  
>> something like [lmroman12-regular], rather than by "real" name  
>> (e.g., "Latin Modern Roman 12" or similar). This may come from the  
>> fontspec package rather than something you're explicitly using in  
>> your document; I think the latest fontspec uses Latin Modern in  
>> this way as the default, if you load it but then don't say  
>> \setromanfont{....}, \setmonofont, etc.
>>
>> So either ensure that you explicitly tell fontspec what font names  
>> you want, or don't load fontspec at all if you don't want to  
>> actually use its features to specify fonts.
>>
>> To use Latin Modern through fontspec's default option, you'd need  
>> a new TeXShop engine that calls for the xdvipdfmx driver instead  
>> of xdv2pdf. You can create this by duplicating the existing  
>> XeLaTeX engine, naming it XeLaTeX-x.engine (or something), and  
>> changing the typesetting command in the engine to:
>>
>>  xelatex -output-driver="xdvipdfmx -q -E" "$1"
>>
>> JK
>>
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