[XeTeX] Installing XeTeX on Kubuntu Edgy with texlive packages

[Herbert Schulz]

On Dec 21, 2006, at 10:43 AM, Ralf Stubner wrote:

> Felix Huang <gzfelix at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> And, xdvipdfmx conflicts with dvipdfmx, because they try to  
>> install CMap
>> files to the same directory. However, both of them are needed and  
>> they
>> ought to be coexist. dvipdfmx is used for TTF embedded output of dvi,
>> and xdvipdfmx is for xdv. Thus this conflict has to be resolved.
>
> I agree that dvipdfmx and xdvipdfmx should coexist, and the official
> Debian packages that hopefully will be created after Etch is released
> will most likely be like that. However, xdvipdfmx *should* have all  
> the
> functionality of dvipdfmx when called on a existing dvi file. I guess
> testing this would also be interesting, since in the long run dvipdfmx
> and xdvipdfmx should be merged again.
>
> cheerio
> ralf

Howdy,

And in the long-long run XeTeX should be merged with pdftex so we can  
use Font Expansion and, at least, Character Protrusion with the  
wonders of XeLaTeX :-)!!!

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)