[XeTeX] An example of the use of \x="[filename]"

[Stephen Moye]

On Friday, August 18, 2006, at 05:06AM, Jonathan Kew <jonathan_kew at sil.org> wrote:

>On 18 Aug 2006, at 9:49 am, Stephen Moye wrote:
>>
>> This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.995 (Web2C 7.5.5)
>> entering extended mode
>> (./AAxxtest.tex [1]
>> ** WARNING ** This .map file looks like a dvips format fotmap file.
>> ** WARNING ** -- Current input buffer is: HoeflerTextOrnaments  
>> hoeflertextornaments <hoeflertextornaments.enc
>> ** WARNING ** -- Reading fontmap file stopped at:  
>> file="dvipdfm.map", line=6.
>>
>> Output file removed.
>> )
>> Output written on AAxxtest.pdf (1 page).
>> Transcript written on AAxxtest.log.
>>
>
>OK.... so xetex found the font, but xdvipdfmx wasn't happy.
>
>This is caused by a bug in the current TeX i-Package (more  
>specifically, in the gtamacfonts part that provides support in pdftex  
>for some Mac OS X fonts). It adds invalid entries to the dvipdfm (and  
>dvips) font map files, though it was only intended to work with pdftex.
>
>I've recently reported this to Gerben, so I hope there will be a fix  
>soon. Meanwhile, you can edit dvipdfm.map and manually remove (or  
>comment out) the offending line:
>
>%%% BAD LINE %%% HoeflerTextOrnaments hoeflertextornaments  
><hoeflertextornaments.enc
>
>It's likely to be the first (non-comment) line in the file, if you  
>have a fairly typical selection of fonts; and indeed, in your case  
>it's line 6, after the initial 5 comment lines.

Getting closer:

TeX file:

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\font\x="[SabonNextLT-Black.otf]" at 12pt \x

This is fun

\bye

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Console output:

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This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.995 (Web2C 7.5.5)
entering extended mode
(./AAxxtest.tex [1]
Output file removed.
 )
Output written on AAxxtest.pdf (1 page).
Transcript written on AAxxtest.log.

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Log file:

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This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.995 (Web2C 7.5.5) (format=xetex 2006.8.16)  18 AUG 2006 06:09
entering extended mode
**AAxxtest.tex
(./AAxxtest.tex [1] )
Output written on AAxxtest.pdf (1 page).

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The annoying thing is that I can see the PDF file very briefly before it is deleted.

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SGM