[XeTeX] XeTeX and Windows XP

[John Was]

Dear William

Thanks very much for that.  The immediate need is for some Arabic I have to 
typeset in a few weeks- I've used Arabtex before but I'm not an Arabist by 
training and I think I would find it a bit tedious (and error-prone) to do 
extensive passages in transliteration.  And besides, it about time I learnt 
a few new TeX tricks!  One can so easily get stuck in a rut, though in fact 
plain TeX has served me very well over the years.

Best


John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Adams" <will.adams at frycomm.com>
To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 3:36 PM
Subject: JunkEmail: Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX and Windows XP


> On May 15, 2007, at 9:54 AM, John Was wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have any advice (apart from 'Don't') about installing
>> XeTeX in Windows XP?
>
> Get Akira Kakuto's nifty w32tex:
>
> http://www.fsci.fuk.kindai.ac.jp/kakuto/win32-ptex/web2c75-e.html
>
>
>> I've installed TeXLive complete but don't want to get off on the
>> wrong foot - my elderly EmTeX installation (on the 4AllTeX
>> interface) has migrated from one computer to another for years now
>> simply by copying over the entire folder, and I'm completely rusty
>> on the niceties of setting up a fresh version of TeX.
>
> Probably you can extract your specific files into a localtexmf-like
> folder.
>
>> Or should I just get a Mac and use what seems to be the very easy
>> TexShop platform?
>
> It's a nice option if it meets your needs hardware/software-wise.
>
>> I use plain TeX, incidentally - again, is that a very bad thing?
>
> Not if it meets your needs. Using LaTeX can be nice though when one
> can find a package which addresses a particular need, and it is
> better supported in terms of up-dating to meet modern difficulties.
>
> I'd suggest looking through the fontspec code and documentation and
> comparing that to the Plain TeX samples to see if it's worthwhile for
> your purposes.
>
> William
>
> -- 
> William Adams
> senior graphic designer
> Fry Communications
>
>
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