[XeTeX] LaTeX to Xetex conversion query

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 29.01.2007 um 17:11 schrieb Rene Borgella:

> Now that I've been hearing about the wonderful world of XeTeX, I am
> wondering how I can convert my previous LaTeX docs (as well as  
> write new
> ones) to easily convert to html.  Is this something that is  
> doable?  Are
> there any packages that cannot be used in XeTeX?  I have an example of
> my typical preamble with a list of packages I use in my docs listed  
> below.

You have to use UTF-8 encoding for the text. You should not set any  
input or font encoding. You should not load any typical TeX font  
packages (like txfonts, fourier, ...). If some packages fail to work  
correctly, you can give them a [dvipdfm] as output driver. There seem  
to be restrictions of what a section header is allowed to contain.

Here is an updated version of your example document that produces two  
pages, one with the specified header:

%%!TEX TS-program = xelatex
%%!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
   \documentclass[letterpaper,11pt]{article}

\usepackage{amsmath}
% where you place margins, etc.
\usepackage[left=1in,right=1in,top=0.8in,bottom=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage[parfill]{parskip}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{mdwlist}
\usepackage{marvosym}
\usepackage{graphicx}
%\DeclareGraphicsRule{.tif}{png}{.png}{`convert #1 `dirname #1`/ 
`basename #1 .tif`.png}
\usepackage{fontspec,xltxtra,xunicode}
\setromanfont[Mapping=tex-text, Scale=0.875]{Baskerville}
\setsansfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Optima-Regular}
\setmonofont{Courier}
\setmainfont{Times-Roman}
\newfontinstance\smilefont{AppleSymbols}

\parskip = 0.075 in

% text for headers and footers
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhead{}
\fancyfoot{}
\fancyhead[L]{\textsf{Field Biology --- }Fall 2006}
\fancyfoot[R]{\thepage}

\usepackage{url}
\usepackage[unicode]{hyperref}

%% setup for hyperlinks and pdf-tricks
\hypersetup{%
	colorlinks=true,
	linkcolor=blue,
	anchorcolor=black,
	citecolor=black,
	filecolor=blue,
	menucolor=black,
	pagecolor=black,
	urlcolor=blue,
	bookmarksopen=true,
	bookmarksnumbered=false,
	pdfpagemode=UseOutlines,
	pdfnewwindow=true,
	pdftitle={  },
	pdfauthor={René Borgella <rborgella at ithaca.edu>},
	pdfsubject={ },
	pdfkeywords={ },
	pdfview={FitH},
	pdfstartview={FitH},
	pdfstartpage={1}		
}

% no section numbers
%\setcounter{secnumdepth}{-2}

\title{Field Biology \\ Field Notebooks}
\date{}
\author{René Borgella}

\begin{document}

\maketitle
\pagebreak

\section{one}

Text One.{\smilefont♂}

\section{two}

\textsf{Text Twotoo.}{\smilefont♀}

\section{three}

{\smilefont{\Huge ☞}{\small ☺}{\Large ☻}{\LARGE ☹}{\huge ☚} 
☮}

\section{four}

{\small\Smiley}{\Large\Smiley}{\LARGE\Smiley}{\smilefont☣}

\end{document}

%%% Local Variables:
%%% mode: latex
%%% coding: utf-8-unix
%%% TeX-command-default: "XeLaTeX"
%%% TeX-master: t
%%% End:


I have no idea how htlatex will handle the UTF-8 input ...

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   Pete

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