[XeTeX] "Missing" system fonts

[John Was]

There is no way that I'm going to get rid of my EmTeX distribution, which 
has worked soundly for many years - each year I produce six periodical 
issues, one volume of a slow-moving medieval Latin dictionary, and a lot 
more besides!  But it can't be causing any interference with TeXLive since 
it doesn't even produce any Windows registry entries (it operates in a 
4DosShell) and moves from one computer to another just by copying all the 
files and directories over.  It is TeXLive that made its own decisions when 
I installed it, without asking me what I would have thought were some 
obvious questions about my preferred paths and working directories.  I'm 
sure I'll find some configuration files eventually which I can edit so that 
the distribution will know where I like to keep all my files.  I'm still 
getting used to having to call up a command prompt and type 'XeTeX FILENAME' 
every time I want to compile a file, and I hope that I will eventually find 
a way to avoid that - it seems like stepping back a decade or so.   I 
certainly look forward to getting Greek (and occasionally Hebrew or Arabic) 
in my input files without having to use an ASCII transliteration system, so 
I'll persevere with XeTeX - but I could have done without the hassle of 
taming the environment!

Best

John


From: "Akira Kakuto" <kakuto at fsci.fuk.kindai.ac.jp>
To: <xetex at tug.org>
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 2:21 PM
Subject: JunkEmail: Re: [XeTeX] "Missing" system fonts


> [...]
>> Even now I haven't
>> worked out how to get it to access my TeX files automatically - I'm 
>> having
>> to update ls-R every time I write a new file.  And all the PDFs that 
>> XeTeX
>> produces go in the same directory as the XeTeX program itself, when I 
>> would
>> rather they went in the same directory as the TeX file that I am 
>> compiling.
>> Again, there is probably a configuration file I can alter to achieve 
>> this,
>> and I'll find it soon, but I haven't had to worry about that sort of 
>> thing
>> for many years!
>
> Your TeX environment seems very strange.
> Perhaps you have mixed different distributions of TeX.
> Thus applications are reading wrong configuration files.
> Please erase all and reinstall "TeXLive-2007 only" !!
>
> -- 
> Akira Kakuto
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