[XeTeX] Usage problem

[Ali Majdzadeh]

Hello Jonathan
Thanks a lot. I successfully built XeTeX from source on the following
platforms:
1) Redhat Enterprise 4
2) Fedora Core 6
3) Redhat 9
The best result was on Redhat Enterprise 4. On Fodora Core 6, there were
just some brackets ([][][]]) in the output pdf file. I checked everything,
the fonts, the syntax, ... . On Redhat 9, as you mentioned, there were some
problems regarding the teTeX itself.
Anyway, I am going to test TeX Live.

Kind Regards
Ali


2007/11/24, Jonathan Kew <jonathan_kew at sil.org>:
>
> Hello Ali,
>
> On 23 Nov 2007, at 3:36 pm, Ali Majdzadeh wrote:
>
> > Jonathan,
> > Thanks in advance. I am totally new to TeX and I have chosen XeTeX
> > to start. Thanks again for your attention. By the way, should I
> > post error messages I faced during the install process in Redhat 9?
> >
>
> It depends. If you were trying to install with Redhat's teTeX, the
> simple answer is that this is no longer supported, and I don't think
> we should spend much time on it. (In particular, I'm not going to set
> up a teTeX system to reproduce and solve problems.) If you have
> suggested patches that would help, and not disrupt other things,
> they'd be welcome, but I don't have the resources to do much
> investigation of this.
>
> My recommendation would be to use TeX Live, either by installing the
> TeX Live distribution directly (in which case problems should be
> reported to the TeX Live team), or via your distribution's package
> system, if available (in which case problems should be reported to
> the packagers). Either way, you should be able to get XeTeX as part
> of a standard TeX Live installation.
>
> Finally, if you're building XeTeX from source yourself, e.g., because
> you need a newer version than TeX Live provides, and have problems
> installing the new version into a current TeX Live system, it would
> be helpful to see those errors and any suggested improvements.
> There's a script in the xetex repository that attempts to install a
> newly-built version, but I'm sure it could use some work.
>
> Thanks,
>
> JK
>
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