[XeTeX] XeTeX error message

[Stephen Moye]

My apologies for not getting back to you on this sooner, but it just
occurred to me what might have been happening -- the details are hazy.

I am inclined to agree that it is some sort of encoding issue. I am moving
from Textures. I was in the process of testing some of my old Textures files
by opening them directly in TeXShop -- the quotes didn't work, I believe.
Eventually I got myself into a real mess by switching back and forth between
encodings (using Save As...) to get things to work out. Finally, I adopted
the policy of copying the Textures document and pasting it into a new, blank
TeXShop document, whereupon the error messages went away.

On 4/26/04 4:34 AM, "Jonathan Kew" <jonathan_kew at sil.org> wrote:

> Looking at the code, it doesn't seem like the type of line endings
> should be a problem. So most likely I have a bug somewhere else to deal
> with.
> 
> Can you tell us a bit more about your iffy.tex file (or was that a
> made-up name?) and/or others where you're seeing this error? How big is
> the file; what encoding does it use; what line-end convention; anything
> else that might seem relevant? Do you have a small sample file you
> could send me that demonstrates the problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> On 24 Apr 2004, at 7:43 pm, Jonathan Kew wrote:
> 
>> My guess is that your iffy.tex file is a big file and has nothing that
>> is recognized as a line ending (i.e., 0x0A) .... could it be a
>> Mac-style file with only CR (0x0D) ending the lines? If so, you need
>> to convert the line-ends to Unix-style newlines.
>> 
>> Or does "somewhat randomly" mean that you get the error intermittently
>> even with the exact same file? That would imply some other kind of
>> problem.
>> 
>> Jonathan
>> 
>> On 21 Apr 2004, at 10:43 am, Stephen Moye wrote:
>> 
>>> Since installing v0.4, I am getting these error messages, seemingly
>>> somewhat
>>> randomly:
>>> 
>>> This is XeTeXk, Version 3.14159-2.1-0.4 (Web2C 7.5.2)
>>>  %&-line parsing enabled.
>>> entering extended mode
>>> (./iffy.tex! Unable to read an entire line---bufsize=200000.
>>> Please increase buf_size in texmf.cnf.
>>> 
>>> Should I simply do as the message suggests, though the texmf.cnf
>>> suggests
>>> otherwise? I'm using OSX 10.3.3 on a TI PowerBook at present.
>>> 
>>> And a question about fonts: Will OTF fonts become useable in XeTeX --
>>> I'm
>>> thinking about gems like Adobe Jenson and Slimbach's Brioso.
>>> 
>>> Thanks.
>>> 
>>> Stephen Moye
>>> 
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