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

[Stephen Moye]

On Friday, August 18, 2006, at 06:32AM, Jonathan Kew <jonathan_kew at sil.org> wrote:

>On 18 Aug 2006, at 11:14 am, Stephen Moye wrote:
>
>> Console output:
>>
>> --------
>>
>> This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.995 (Web2C 7.5.5)
>> entering extended mode
>> (./AAxxtest.tex [1]
>> Output file removed.
>
>The message "Output file removed" comes from xdvipdfmx when it  
>believes something is wrong (as it doesn't want to leave you with a  
>corrupt/incomplete PDF that might do bad things when you try to view  
>it).
>
>To figure out what's going wrong, try removing the -q (quiet) option  
>from xdvipdfmx in your engine, and adding -v or even -vv (verbose)  
>instead; that way we'll find out a bit more of what it thinks it's  
>doing.
>
>Alternatively, go to the Terminal and run the processes separately:
>
>$ xetex -no-pdf testfile.tex
>This is XeTeX....
>Output written on testfile.xdv...
>
>$ xdvipdfmx -E -vv testfile.xdv
>(...various output, mainly related to fonts...)
>
>JK

I used -vv in the .engine file. Here is the TeX file (the OTF font is in the same directory as the TeX file; I tried it both with and without the .otf extension):

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\font\x="[BernhardModernStd-Bold]" at 12pt \x

This is fun

\bye

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The Console output:

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This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.995 (Web2C 7.5.5)
entering extended mode
(./xpdmftest.tex [1]No dvi filename specified, reading standard input.DVI Comment:  XeTeX output 2006.08.18:0843
stdin -> xpdmftest.pdf
[1<[./BernhardModernStd-Bold.otf](:)@11.96pt
** ERROR ** Cannot proceed without the "native" font: [./BernhardModernStd-Bold.otf] ( )...

Output file removed.
 )
Output written on xpdmftest.pdf (1 page).
Transcript written on xpdmftest.log.

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The Log file:

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This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.995 (Web2C 7.5.5) (format=xetex 2006.8.17)  18 AUG 2006 08:43
entering extended mode
**xpdmftest.tex
(./xpdmftest.tex [1] )
Output written on xpdmftest.pdf (1 page).

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Thank you for your patience.