[XeTeX] Re: [MacTeX] XeTeX

[Bruno Voisin]

Le 13 avr. 04, à 02:37, Ross Moore a écrit :

> This could be related to why I'm having trouble with the CM-test.tex
> example; but if so, it must mean that XeTeX has some paths hard-coded
> into it, where it looks for the OTF fonts. That's surely a bad thing.

Installing XeTeX adds in /Library/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf the  
lines:

% OpenType fonts
OTFFONTS = .;$TEXMF/fonts/otf//

> Now that you have a working xelatex as well as xetex, would
> you please do the short test that I gave in a previous message:
>
> [glenlivet:] rossmoor% more mtest
> \mathchardef\tmp\mathcode`\(
> \show\tmp
> \bye
>
> Check the result of processing this with:
>   tex,  pdftex,  etex,  pdfetex  and  xetex .

I ran the test from within TeXShop.

With pdfTeX:

> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.11b (Web2C 7.5.2)
>  \write18 enabled.
>  %&-line parsing enabled.
>  (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/web2c/cp8bit.tcx)
> (./mtest.tex{/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/pdftex/config/ 
> pdftex.cfg}
> > \tmp=\mathchar"4028.
> l.2 \show\tmp
>
> ?
>  )
> No pages of output.
> Transcript written on mtest.log.

With TeX:

> ### This is  
> /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/altpdftex, Version  
> $Revision: 2.15 $
> ### /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/tex mtest.tex
> This is TeXk, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.2)
>  %&-line parsing enabled.
>  (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/web2c/cp8bit.tcx)
> (./mtest.tex
> > \tmp=\mathchar"4028.
> l.2 \show\tmp
>
> ?
>  )
> No pages of output.
> Transcript written on mtest.log.
> ### WARNING: TeX returned non zero exit status
> ### /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/dvips -R  
> -Poutline  -o /tmp/altpdftex.376-1081837657/mtest.ps mtest.dvi
> This is dvips(k) 5.94a Copyright 2003 Radical Eye Software  
> (www.radicaleye.com)
> /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/dvips: ! DVI file  
> can't be opened.
> ### FAILED to generate /tmp/altpdftex.376-1081837657/mtest.ps ()

With XeTeX:

> This is XeTeXk, Version 3.14159-2.1-0.3 (Web2C 7.5.2)
>  %&-line parsing enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (./mtest.tex
> ! Bad mathchar (67108904).
> l.1 \mathchardef\tmp\mathcode`\(
>
> ?
> > \tmp=\mathchar"0.
> l.2 \show\tmp
>
> ?
>  )
> No pages of output.
> Transcript written on mtest.log.

so I get the same error as you do.

Cheers,

Bruno
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