[XeTeX] letter.dabase.com
Bruno Voisin
bvoisin at mac.com
Fri Nov 2 06:40:53 CET 2007
Le 2 nov. 07 à 01:22, Will Robertson a écrit :
> On 02/11/2007, at 10:16 , Jonathan Kew wrote:
>
>>> xetex seems to ignore that %&program=xelatex in the header.
>>
>> Indeed; that's just a comment, as far as (xe)tex is concerned.
>> TeXShop (on Mac OS X) used that to determine which TeX engine to
>> run, but that won't help you. You'll want to explicitly call
>> xelatex in your command line.
>
> Also, that's the old syntax for specifying the document metadata.
> Now you want to write
>
> %!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
> %!TEX TS-program = XeLaTeX
What puzzles me is that the original poster said:
> I'm using a Debian unstable machine btw for testing.
so he doesn't seem to be using OS X, hence no TeXShop.
Is that possible that:
%&program=xelatex
%&encoding=UTF-8 Unicode
refer to some universal syntax, not specific to TeXShop? Long ago
OzTeX used to use a similar syntax for specifying the format, yielding
here
%&xelatex
Bruno Voisin
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