[OS X TeX] Flasmode and XeTeXinputencoding

[Herbert Schulz]

On Oct 21, 2008, at 9:40 AM, seroul at math.u-strasbg.fr wrote:

>
> The following file works perfectly with XeTeX (TeXShop 2.18)
> on a PowerBook (OS X 10.5) :
>
>
>
> % !TEX TS-program =  xetex
> % !TEX encoding =  utf8
>
> \XeTeXinputencoding mac
>
> \font \toto = Palatino at 10pt
>
> \toto
>
> Ce théorème élémentaire est
> extrêmement simple à prouver.
>
> \bye
>
>
>
>
> But when I try to use Flashmode, I get an error :
>
>
> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7)  
> (format=pdfetex 2008.10.20)  21 OCT 2008 16:28
> entering extended mode
> \write18 enabled.
> %&-line parsing enabled.
> **essai-xetex-mac.tex
> (./essai-xetex-mac.tex
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> l.5 \XeTeXinputencoding
>                        mac
> ?
> ! Emergency stop.
> l.5 \XeTeXinputencoding
>                        mac
> End of file on the terminal!
>
> !  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
>
> What can I do ?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Raymond Séroul
>

Howdy,

Flashmode is attempting to process the file with pdftex; it doesn't  
preocess the TS-program line and use the xtex engine file.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)