[OS X TeX] Curious xelatex font problem

[Reinaert Albrecht]

On 07-09-2008 00:04:12 +0200, Bruno Voisin wrote:
> Le 6 sept. 08 à 23:30, Reinaert Albrecht a écrit :
>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> Obviously my problem is solved but I'm still curious as to why.  
>> Anybody ideas?
>
> Sorry, I can't help more here. You obviously have a solid Unix  
> background, I don't: you're using terms such as macosx screen version,  
> macports screen version, termcap, iTerm, and one of our attachment is  
> called gnuscreen, but these terms mean absolutely nothing to me.
>
> In any case, the fact that kpsewhich doesn't work means your TeX setup  
> is seriously damaged.

How could that be? I haven't changed anything to the mactex setup or anything.  
What is kpsewhich supposed to show me? Isn't kpsewhich supposed to be run with 
some filename as parameter?

Kind regards,

Reinaert

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Reinaert Albrecht