[XeTeX] xelatex not working

Joshua Grauman jnfo at grauman.com
Wed Aug 9 21:06:28 CEST 2006


Great! That was it and I have a working xelatex. I just moved the binary. 
Thanks. I'm sure I'll have further questions at some point, but for now I 
need to read up on latex commands.

Josh

> On 9 Aug 2006, at 6:59 pm, Joshua Grauman wrote:
>
>> Ok, so I got past the xkeyval problem, and have another one ;)
>>
>> This is my error:
>>
>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local/tex/xelatex/xkeyval/keyval.tex)))
>> fontspec.cfg loaded.
>> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local/tex/xelatex/fontspec/
>> fontspec.cfg))
>> (./Hebrew3.aux) [1] (./Hebrew3.aux) )
>> (null) -> Hebrew3.pdf
>> [1
>> ** ERROR ** Unable to find TFM file "cmr10".
>>
>
> That's coming from xdvipdfmx, rather than xetex itself. Where is
> xdvipdfmx installed? If it didn't end up in the same location as
> other tex-related binaries, then it may not find the same
> configuration files.
>
> Note that some systems keep the binaries themselves in a platform-
> specific directory under .../teTeX/bin/...., and place symlinks into /
> usr/local/bin or similar; installing a program like xdvipdfmx
> directly into /usr/local/bin may not work in this case, as it won't
> find the same texmf.cnf. Try comparing the results of:
>     ls -l `which xetex`
>     ls -l `which xdvipdfmx`
>
> (But I don't know how the Slackware packages are set up; this may not
> be relevant.)
>
> JK
>
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