[XeTeX] XeTeX for Linux

[Jonathan Kew]

On 5 May 2006, at 11:22 am, Martin Schröder wrote:

> On 2006-05-04 17:29:11 +0100, Jonathan Kew wrote:
>> Or you can use the fontspec and xunicode packages in LaTeX to change
>> the fonts throughout sample2e, by adding to the preamble:
>>
>> 	\usepackage{fontspec,xunicode}
>> 	\setromanfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Charis SIL}
>
> The small examples work (hurray!), but this makes xetex crash:
[snip]

Ouch.... OK, thanks for the report. We've also seen a crash on  
Solaris trying to use Charis SIL, which may be related; I'll be  
looking into it. Hope to have an update fairly soon.

JK