[XeTeX] Windows Front-Ends and XeTeX

Jonathan Kew jonathan_kew at sil.org
Wed Oct 17 00:57:46 CEST 2007


On 16 Oct 2007, at 11:14 pm, Florian Grammel wrote:

> I've been asked by some friends to get them going with XeLaTeX.
> As I'm Mac-only myself I was pleased to learn, that TeXLive 2007
> provides everything needed also for the those using Windows.
> Following a very positive review, we installed TeXnicCenter as a
> front-end.
>
> As font-changing with fontspec and the like do work, XeTex is
> obviously installed, but everything outside ASCII is rendered as
> empty boxes. Files written on a Mac and sent to and xetex'ed  on the
> PCs in question do produce flawless pdf's, rendering non-ASCII  
> properly.
> My guess is that the file in TeXnicCenter just isn't saved as UTF8
> and thus not xetex'ed properly. If this is right:
>
> - Is there a way to make TeXnicCenter save properly? (I couldn't find
> any, but I still cannot believe that an up-to-date app isn't Unicode-
> aware nowadays...)

I don't think so. AFAIK, TeXnicCenter does *not* support Unicode.

> - Could any of you recommend a good, stable, preferably free LaTeX
> editor for non-experts that _can_ be used with XeTeX?

I haven't used it personally, but a colleague has reported good  
success with WinShell <http://www.winshell.de/>. Your friends might  
like to give that a try.

JK



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