[tex-live] Win32: xelatex -0.999.4 failure to process sample2e.tex

[George N. White III]

On my Win32/wine even xetex story fails:

C:\Testing>xetex story
This is XeTeXk, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.999.4 (Web2C 7.5.7)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(c:/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/plain/base/story.tex
! Emergency stop.
<recently read> O

l.7 O
     nce upon a time, in a distant
No pages of output.
Transcript written on story.log.



On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Jonathan Kew <jonathan_kew at sil.org> wrote:
> On 2 Aug 2008, at 5:27 PM, Norbert Preining wrote:
>
>> On Sa, 02 Aug 2008, George N. White III wrote:
>>>
>>> C:\Testing>xelatex sample2e
>>> This is XeTeXk, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.999.4 (Web2C 7.5.7)
>>
>> 0.999.4 was a very recent update, Jonathan, is there something broken
>> ...
>
> Oh dear; I hope not!
>
> It runs fine for me:
>
>> jonathan-pro:~ jonathan$ xelatex sample2e
>> This is XeTeXk, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.999.4 (Web2C 7.5.6)
>>  %&-line parsing enabled.
>> entering extended mode
>> (/Users/jonathan/texlive/Master/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/sample2e.tex
>> LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
>> Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax,
>> dumylang, noh
>> yphenation, german-x-2008-06-18, ngerman-x-2008-06-18, ancientgreek,
>> ibycus, ar
>> abic, basque, bulgarian, catalan, pinyin, coptic, croatian, czech, danish,
>> dutc
>> h, esperanto, estonian, farsi, finnish, french, galician, german, ngerman,
>> mono
>> greek, greek, hungarian, icelandic, indonesian, interlingua, irish,
>> italian, la
>> tin, mongolian, mongolian2a, bokmal, nynorsk, polish, portuguese,
>> romanian, rus
>> sian, sanskrit, serbian, slovak, slovenian, spanish, swedish, turkish,
>> ukenglis
>> h, ukrainian, uppersorbian, welsh, loaded.
>> (/Users/jonathan/texlive/Master/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
>> Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
>> (/Users/jonathan/texlive/Master/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
>> No file sample2e.aux.
>> (/Users/jonathan/texlive/Master/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/omscmr.fd) [1]
>> [2] [3] (./sample2e.aux) )
>> Output written on sample2e.pdf (3 pages).
>> Transcript written on sample2e.log.
>> jonathan-pro:~ jonathan$
>
> but of course this isn't the W32 build. (I didn't even know that had been
> updated already.)
>
> I'll try to find time to look at it more later this evening....
>
> JK
>
>



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George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia