[OS X TeX] Curious xelatex font problem
Jonathan Kew
jonathan at jfkew.plus.com
Sun Sep 7 00:23:54 CEST 2008
On 6 Sep 2008, at 10:30 PM, Reinaert Albrecht wrote:
> Well, this turns out to be a lot weirder than I even could imagine.
> The
> problem seems to be a weird combination of iTerm and macosx's
> screen. If I use
> macports screen version i'm immediately out of trouble. But somehow
> that can't
> be derived from the environment variables... "which xelatex" gives
> me the
> exact same result /usr/texbin//xelatex. kpsewhich doesn't seem to
> work, it
> exits with 1 as exit code.
No, that's just because the command that was suggested (kpsewhich
xelatex) won't find anything -- kpsewhich doesn't look for executables
(like "which"), but for input files, etc.
> The problem seems to be macosx's screen version. I've included the
> env output
> in both screens. The only noticable difference seems to be in the
> termcap
> variables. Can that be the problem?
It seems unlikely. Seeing the full transcript of a failed run might
help us to figure out what is going wrong.
> Obviously my problem is solved but I'm still curious as to why.
> Anybody ideas?
My guess is still that you have some old TeX-related binaries
somewhere, and a path difference in the environments is affecting what
is found. What does "locate xdvipdfmx" show?
JK
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