[XeTeX] Usage problem

[Ali Majdzadeh]

Hello Jonathan
Problem solved. I used TeX Live 2007 on Linux and now, everything works
fine.
Thanks for your suggestions.

Best Regards
Ali


2007/11/24, Ali Majdzadeh <ali.majdzadeh at gmail.com>:
>
> 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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